Moksha desktop environment is very stable on an Ubuntu base

Sep 12, 2016 01:35 GMT  ·  By

Bodhi Linux developer Jeff Hoogland is pleased to announce on September 11, 2016, the release and immediate availability of the second Alpha development snapshot of his upcoming Bodhi 4.0.0 GNU/Linux distribution.

Bodhi 4.0.0 Alpha 2 remains based on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, and it looks like it brings an up-to-date Bodhi Builder tool that the developer uses to build his Ubuntu derivative. Moreover, the latest security and software versions pushed upstream in the Xenial repos have also been imported in the Bodhi 4.0.0 distribution, which uses the most stable release of the Moksha desktop environment.

"The feedback from our first alpha release has reported the Moksha desktop on the 16.04 base is as stable as ever, so the only reason this remains with a pre-release tag is due to some rough edges in terms of polish," says Jeff Hoogland. "There are some minor issues with the default theme under our new 16.04 base and I am still looking to make time to compile a non-PAE kernel image and create a separate disc image for that."

A non-PAE ISO image of Bodhi 4.0.0 to be available soon

The developer reports that, even if it's in the Alpha stages of development, Bodhi 4.0.0 is currently quite stable on his laptop computer, and no show-stopping issues occurred during the last month's testing period, since the release of the first Alpha on July 29, 2016. Therefore, he encourages users to install Bodhi 4.0.0 Alpha 2 on their personal computers and report any issues they might encounter.

In the meantime, the development cycle of Bodhi 4.0.0 continues, but there's no release date set for the next milestone, which might be the Beta. We also don't know when the final build will launch, but we do believe that it will be before the end of the year.

Bodhi 4.0.0 Alpha 2 Live ISO images are now available for download for 64- and 32-bit systems, and there might also be a non-PAE ISO released in the coming days.