Not much is going on in sunny and hot Samoa, besides slight anxiousness about the start of the soccer season here. I also had a dream about being able to download 10 torrents simultaneously at good speed at home…pretty much shows you how much I miss always on, fast, and cheap internet.
One other thing that I’m missing is playing around with Linux Distros that interest me. Here’s one that I’ve been wanting to check out: Bodhi. Also available are some screenshots.
Whilst I love and use Mandriva / Mageia, I’m very interested in this distro, despite it being based on Ubuntu. Why? Well, it aims to be a lot leaner than Ubuntu and it’s based around the E17 desktop environment. I’ve tried playing around E17 (Enlightenment17) in Mandriva, but have found their packages to be quite buggy, incomplete and generally lacking polish. I think that’s pretty much the case with E17 in most major distros. However the Bodhi guys have apparently polished E17 integration and incorporate any upstream improvements and fixes very quickly. I have loaded up a live cd in a Virtual Box environment, and it feels fast. But I really need the internet to get it to anything interesting, as out of the box it is very spartan without many of the programs I would like to use. What would be ideal is to chuck this on an old machine to play around with, see how it handles older hardware, maybe give it an extra lease on life. I know Arch Linux did wonders for my old 2005 Dell Laptop…but I lack my old PCs / laptops and the internet here in Samoa. 🙁
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