Bodhi Linux 3.2.1 64-bit, running on dual Dell monitors, spinning 5200rpm laptop 18 partitoned drive (governed by grub4dos), hardware consisting of a 8 yr old AMD Athlon Regor 2.8Ghz & 2GB of pc-6400 ram. A distro that is snappy, fun and intelligent.
Included two pics. One, is just a plain, beautiful Moshka DE & wallpaper, with subtle shaded bottom taskbar.
Second pic gives you a small idea of the Moshka Desktop enviroment (based on Enlightenment desktop). Some salient facts on Bodhi:
1) distro is ~570MB, it comes quite bare (you get midori, pcmanfm, terminal, ephoto, epad (text editor), Epulse (sound), eeData (updater), ARandR and the sublime Bodhi Applications Center)...so it's a bit sparse, but the tradeoff is you install what and only what you want...there's no trying to include everything & the Out house-sink mentality.
2) Besides the desktop (and themes provided---10 are available for download), Moksha stores gadgeta (for taskbar) and luanchers in
"shelves". These
shelves are fully gui customizable. You can have one shelf and/or many, located wherever you want, on whichever monitor(s) you want, withwhat you want included in them...all via a great GUI interface.
3) One of the treats of the Moksha DE is that the developers did something that should make all of us smile: they took something KDE-like, and made it their own. What? Full window placement, control, size, etc, etc. Result: you now have full--FULL--control over every window opened by Moksha in terms of monitor placement, size, screen location, etc, etc with just a simple right-click anywhere in the window you are opening and/or working in. It is fantastic. I hate when desktop managers have the "smart" feature yet still if you open a lot windows, none of them are ever remembered where you opened them and in what size. Not so with Bodhi. You modify a browser file manager, any pop-up notice window within the complete Moksha desktop, and that window will forever (if you set it the first time via an easy right-click) will forever open there and/or anywhere you drap it around, re-size and close it. Personally, this one thing alone was the major reason to use KDE desktop....but we all know the headaches & bloat KDE can bring. Here, it is alive & well not in a bloated KDE desktop envirnment, but in a fast, slick DE environment. I wish all puppy makers could somehow have this function incorporated in their distros so we could go giddy with the one thing that makes any user smile.
4) The next new thing (at least for me in trying different Linux distros) is the
"Bodhi Applications Center" (for its distro repository). The BAC looks like a standalone app, like usual, but look closely at the pic. It is not. It is Midori (or it can be set for whatever browser you use). Opening the BAC takes you directly to the repository on the Bodhi website where you can install software they've packaged (look at the pic....again, Bodhi kept it sparse, there's only 90-100 packages, which for me basically covered everything like Libre, VLC, Geany, Chromum, Firefox, Synaptic, CUPS printer support, Evince, etc, etc, etc. Anything else you'd like, you just install it the regular terminal CLI way). What's also great about this, anything you choose to install, the full instructions on how to maximize that package are right there for the clicking. No hunting and searching..just click, and like a scientist, you've mastered it in a few secs because of the detailed instructions on that package.
5) Lastly, the included eepDater (the system maintenance updater) is one of the cleanest, tightest system updating applications I've seen across the Linux world. Fast, clear and concise. Next to Elementary OS's Loki updater (which has set the bar for excellence in what a system updater should do and look like), the eepDater is quite good.
If you're a Puppy lover, give Bodhi a spin, it's quite enlightening. In Hinduism and Jainism, the term "
Moksha" refers to the release from the cycle of rebirth impelled by the law of karma. And, yes, read that once or twice, even a hundred times, I still go drink another beer and see if I understand this karma stuff any better...
P.S. I still struggle understanding how to get uploaded pics to Murga-Linux to display. Both pics uploaded (and accepted) to murga were under 200kb in size, under 800x600 resolution, but they still would not display (causing people to have to click on them). Wish I knew what I was doing wrong, as I just don't understand...sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn' t. I will now try to upload the exact same pics to my pic site, and link them here, and see if that works.
(edited: Sun, 10:45am, for spelling/grammar -- apologies)