 Today, we're going to be taking a look at a Linux distribution that I've never actually heard of before. So this is going to be a little bit of a unique experience. The distro is called Bode Linux. And I believe that's how you pronounce it, but it might be something different. I'm not actually sure it's B O D H I. And most recently they released version 6.0 of the operating system. So it's been around for a while and it's based on Ubuntu and it looks like it's a very stable Linux distribution or at least that's what it's aiming to be. So we're going to take a look at it today and we'll install in a virtual machine and see what it's all about. So let's go ahead and first take a look at the release info of version 6.0. So it says here that is based on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. This is the most recent LTS version of Ubuntu. It says our arc green theme underwent a major nerf featuring an animated background. So that should be interesting to see how that works out and updated splash screen and made numerous tweaks. The login screen also now features an elegant slick greeter. There's a new Plymouth theme. I don't know what that means, but we'll have to check and see what that is. The Makasha desktop, which is the desktop that they use environment has numerous improvements and a few new features added. In addition to all this, the body team has tried to improve support for non English languages. So that's good too. As a result, we now install by default the GNOME language tool. None of this would have been possible without the support of the body community and volunteer work of our small group of translators. So that's really cool. That's really nice. It's nice to see a Linux distribution that has a nice community surrounding it. Other notable changes since body five point run release include replacing PC man FM with a custom patched version of Thunar. Okay, so they've moved from PC man FM to Thunar. I can see why they do that. PC man FM is a little heavy. It's not heavy as in resource intensive, but it can look a little heavy at least. At least that's my opinion. The version of Thunar now supports setting the background image of the Makasha alignment desktop. So I'm looking, I'm thinking that this may be that this also comes with enlightenment or maybe Makasha's base on enlightenment. I'm not actually sure. In addition to patching Thunar, we also patch leaf pad and E photo leaf pad is to fix the truncated file issue led to its removal from both Debbie and and they went to repositories. Okay, so lots of nice little fixes here. If you've used this distribution in the past. So let's go ahead and look at their releases here. So they have a standard release, which is just the regular release. It has the normal small amount of aptitude. Get the hwe release has a more recent kernel, I believe, and allows for better hardware support. And the app pack release, which is what we're going to be trying today. This has a ton of extra apps. And if you're interested in knowing what the difference is, you can actually go through to their wiki and have them explain it to you. So body Linux standard is the platform standard for desktop and workstation computers. hwe has the hardware enable it built on top of standard for catching up with the newest hardware technologies. Your processor is capable of running 64 bit operating system. And you want to receive further kernel updates and newer hardware support you should be using this release. And then the app pack one comes with a variety of additional themes applications and compared to the standards, let's go ahead and go to the virtual machine here. So let's go ahead and start this and we're going to go ahead and install it in virtual box. So that's an interesting grub boot loader. Nice. Go ahead and try. So we get full screen right off the bat, which is good. And this is based on Buntu. So you do get that consistent logo all the way through start up, which is nice. Okay, so we check our language here, hit next. And our keyboard, the interesting way this is this is laying out is they have the title up here. So you have to make sure you're paying attention to the whole screen. Okay, so I did see something move there in the background. So it is an animated background doesn't not that animated though. Okay, let's let's go ahead and see what we got here. Let's go ahead and just install it. We'll take a look at the desktop app we've installed. What installer do we get? Do we get ubiquity? Do we get something custom? We get ubiquity. Okay, let's go ahead and continue here. This cursor is going to drive me absolutely bad. I don't know if you can see that but that is pointing to the wrong direction. Okay, make sure our keyboard is working here, which it is. Continue. We'll install do this one here and not this one here. We'll do the updates afterwards. Continue. And let's see if we have any other options for we do have ZFS here experimental still available. So that's nice. I haven't taken that out. Well, we won't select it here but it is available if you want it, which is good. And we'll go ahead and install now and then continue. And that's a good enough time time zone. We'll type in our credentials. And our usual password and hit continue. And we're installing. Okay, well, we'll see how long this takes. I'll cut away and come back when it's done. Okay, that took about seven minutes or so. So let's go ahead and shut this virtual machine down. Now, if you were doing this normally, you could just hit restart now and remove your installation media. But because I'm in a virtual machine, I'm going to have to shut down. So I'm going to go ahead and continue testing. And then go down here and power off. That way I can remove the installation media from virtual box, which is already done. Sometimes it does that sometimes it doesn't. So let's go ahead and hit the start button up again here and see what the load times are like. Pretty good. Okay, let's go ahead and enter our password. And we have a splash screen with a logo that's appearing to be in the center. But that's okay. So if you click on the desktop, you get a menu very similar to what you would see in like open box, actually, it wouldn't actually surprise me at all if this was based on open box or something of the like. It reminds me quite a bit of like LX cute. Just a little bit. Maybe LX DE back in the day. I'm guessing that this is probably based on GTK and not cute. I will know more once I've opened up some applications. So here along the bottom we have the application launcher. We have the Chromium web browser. Interesting that they've went with Chromium and not Firefox, but it's a choice. We have a terminal which is terminology as the terminal. I've never heard of actually heard of terminology before. Let's see if NeoFetch is installed. It is not. So let's go ahead and do an update. See how long this takes? Oh, that's because I didn't app there. Turns out if you spell things right and do things correctly, they usually work. If you don't do those things, they don't work. So there's actually quite a few updates here for this having been just released in last week. Not as many as there could be, but there definitely is more than I expected there to be. That didn't take too long though. Let's go ahead and do sudo apt install NeoFetch clear this out into NeoFetch. Okay, so we don't have a custom logo here. This is just a Linux. That's just tux. We have Bodhi 6.0.0. This is running the enlightenment desktop environment, which is something I've actually never tried before. And this is the Muxa window manager. Again, it wouldn't surprise me if that's not based a little bit on open box, because it's very similar to open box. The theme is out of weight. And this is GTK 3. So that's nice. The terminal is terminology again, not something I've ever used before. The font is terminus 10, 10 bold. Okay, and moving stuff around here, I don't see any screen tearing, which is always the first thing I check when I install something on hardware, but usually the VM is pretty good. Maybe a little bit of flair there at the end, but it actually drags on pretty good. Very speedy, open and closes really good. So that's a good start there. So we're using the kernel 5.4, which is fairly old, but it's also the kernel that the LTS was released with. So not all that surprising. Let's do free dash M. And we're using 218 megabytes of RAM. That is spectacular. So if you're going to be looking for a distribution that is led on resources, if the rest of this is any good, this might be something that you'd look into because 218 is probably the lowest that I've actually ever seen on an actual desktop environment. Usually to get that you have to be in some kind of window manager. That's really good. Okay, let's go and that's with a terminal open. So let's go ahead and close that. So on the desktop here, I don't see an animated background, but that might just be because I'm in a virtual machine. Sometimes the virtual machine and the video drivers don't actually allow animations and stuff to come through. So that's okay. We have some widgets appear. We have the clock. I don't see we can move this, but it doesn't seem that you can actually drag and drop it somewhere else. That's a little bit interesting. We have our workspace switcher. This isn't. Yeah, this is our workspace switcher. So if we open up a open up Thunar here and switch between these will see that we switch between workspaces, which is cool. Those icons though. Wow. Definitely unique. Definitely not something that I expect to see. Now this is the weirdest at a way to theme I've ever seen. This is not at a way to at all. So they just probably cloned that and then completely rewrote it or something. I'm not sure. Not a ton of stuff over here in the places pinned. So that's not a big deal. What I'm not seeing here is a way to make this bigger. So like if I eat. Oh, there we go. It's just a different. Usually the when you go to the sides of the window, the cursor will be like a little arrow or something. This has like a blinking dot or something. I don't know if you can actually see that on the screen. But that's how you can change that. That's a little weird. I said that's probably an enlightenment thing that I've just never seen before. Because I never actually use this before. But we can obviously make it full screen. Interestingly enough, the calendar in the clock thing stays on top. I'm assuming that's because I changed that. Let's move to this and close that and see if it actually stays up. Yeah, there we go. Got rid of that. Okay, so that is their custom fork of Thunar. Surprisingly, if you maximize it, you can't unmaximize it by dragging from the title. You actually have to use the button. Okay, so that'd be a little bit of a quirk. Let's go ahead and take a look at some of the programs that are installed out of the box. Shall we? So remember, this is the at pack version. So this means there are extra applications and what you'd get in the standard version. So going to applications, we have them in categories, accessories, cherry tree, leaf pad, pi com, calculate and X archiver. These are going to be the preferences for enlightenment programming. We got genie here, education, library office math, which means we have library office installed. Some games we have solitaire tux racers here and frozen bubble. That's probably going to be a bubble popper game. Graphics, we have E photo, GNU image, we have GIMP, which is here, image magic and library office draw internet chromium discord is installed by default file, Zilla hex chat and pigeon audacious for music, Kazam, pulse audio volume control and VLC. So no extraneous like five or six different versions of a video or music player, which is good, a library office and several system tools. We got GW here for doing debt packages, welcoming name, which comes with Thunar. H top is installed by default, which is cool. terminology is the terminal time shift is installed by default as well. So that is really quite cool and not as jammed packed full of applications as I expected it to be. I expected there to be a ton of like extra packages. It'd be interesting to see what the standard one actually comes with. If this is this minimal, because I mean, I've seen quote unquote minimal installs with more than this. So if the standard one has less, it'd be interesting to see what those the actual differences are, that might be something that I'll take a look at later on. So what else do we have in this menu? We have quick launcher, which is in places, take screenshot, which isn't for in the menu, which is a little weird about operating system, which is where you can get help about body Linux about the maksa desktop, which all we get is credits. Okay, so that doesn't actually, you know, that's pretty useless, really. One thing I did not see is like a app store or something. Did you see an app store? Update manager like I see synaptic or anything like that package install. I mean, that's not going to be advanced internet collection. Oh, synaptic is here. I just missed it. I didn't go up far enough. So here's synaptic packet manager and body does have its own app center. So and but that's not an app center. That's just, that's just a website. And that's inconsistent. Did you notice that when we're on here to to when you hover over the corner to resize this, the icon was this weird blinking thing, when you're on in chromium, it uses the standard arrows. So that's quite inconsistent as well. So this is their app center. It's not an app. It's a website. So let's just see what we got here. So let's look at file managers. Let's just see what's Nautilus. Let's say we want to install Nautilus install. And what is that going to open? Sure. I'm just curious, it's going to probably going to be opening up the so that's how it goes about installing programs from the web basically. So basically downloads what I'm guessing as a dev package and then uses GW to actually install it. That is an interesting way of doing things. It's definitely not something that I have seen before. Let's see what else they got here. Let's go to games, see what they got for games. Say if I wanted to install steam, plan linux, super tux, solitaire minds and welded. That's literally it. So no steam there. So you'd have to install steam from the Ubuntu repositories. Okay, Maksha modules, forecast. So these are I'm assuming that it's going to be this thing here. So let's just say I wanted the forecasting. Let's install that install this. Yes. It's already installed. Okay, so it doesn't actually tell you if you have it installed you just, which is not surprising so it's, it's a website. Let's see here. Settings panel. So let's take a look at the settings here. We can go and close this. I'm not that impressed with the app store quote unquote app store. It's definitely the easy way of doing it I guess. Okay, so let's see your wallpaper. Open up that as a different window. It says use theme wallpaper so you can actually would let's see what the application theme is. And it does doesn't is not live updating. So you actually have to go through and hit apply. And that didn't actually make any change at all. Apply. Let's choose add a Wata and see what that applies. We know what that looks like. Okay, so that did. I mean, let's go ahead open up to an R and see if it actually changed. It did change. Okay, but it's not live. So you have to close apps and reopen them, which isn't surprising. That's, that's usually the way it happens with GTK apps. So that's not that surprising. Let's just apply this one and see what that one looks like. Wow, okay. That's an interesting thing, right? Okay. Let's do I think the green one is the one that we get by default. No, it's dark, but I've actually kind of like that I'm better this. I bet you it's the arc version. Let's see which one do we have. So there are quite a few themes here installed by default. Not really any that are Oh, that was live. Okay, but the application theme one doesn't update live. So you can definitely tell that's a GTK to theme. So we do it starts off on our dark is where it starts off with probably the green version. Yeah, I'm not saying I'm not judging anybody who likes these things. But I don't care for them all that much at all. Arc is probably the best one. The rest of them have weird textures all over the place. So there's quite a few themes. Let's go ahead and go back to the settings here. Let's see your theme. So much art green, much dark, it's going to be okay, so that changes the wallpaper as well with it. So there's a whole bunch of different themes. Let's go some through some of these. Okay, it said bling. So I should have tried I should have trusted it. Wow, okay, let's try this one. This one doesn't look nearly as bad. Some of these things are out there. But there's a lot of them. That's would definitely take some getting used to. This one is kind of very like Windows Vista ish, kind of. All right, let's go ahead and go up here back to the green one. Yeah, we'll go to this one. Okay, let's theme colors, we can change individual colors. So this is basically how like XF CE does colors and stuff sometimes. So you can also change fonts, borders, transitions, which we won't be able to see because I'm going to virtual machine scaling and startup applications as well. So oh, this is not startup applications. This is going to be like the splash screen. Okay, so there's quite a few of those to choose from as well. So I've actually seen more stuff installed for themes and stuff than I with this app pack, then I did actually see actually extra apps. So you can choose favorite applications, bar I bar applications, which is going to be probably the things that go down here at the bottom. Okay, screen lock applications, restart applications, startup applications, things that are good startup default applications, desktop environments, start going on services, start KDM E services, only launch single instances. Okay, I'm not sure what that would do. Let's see here, virtual desktops and workspaces and stuff like that input not put windows. So this is going to be like window control, like where stuff spawns and stuff windows geometry, probably being able to change where the buttons and stuff are menus, menu settings, favorite applications names generic and stuff. So there's no ton of app. Okay, interestingly enough, you can't resize that so you can actually get everything on there all at once, but that's okay. More language settings advanced environment variables. So like a GUI for setting environment variables. So that's kind of cool. I feel like a Sparky or MX had something similar to that. Let's see your files. So that's going to control places and stuff that would show up here down here in the bottom in the application menu and then launcher. Okay. So that's the settings did. I don't see anything here to control the resolution. Did you if I wanted to change the resolution, where would I where would I go? So that's here would change when the screen times out and the backlight and the screen lock the virtual desktops, but I don't see anything for changing the actual display resolution. Hmm. Well, it doesn't matter, but it's interesting that I missed it. Okay, so let's hear others other settings gadgets background options, layers. This is going to be a gadget, but it doesn't really tell you how you would go about, you know, adding a new one. What else we got settings modules. Okay. So the I wonder how you turn that on load. Okay. And then this backlight load and this stuff. You can actually see this down here at the bottom. This is the the modules that go into the bar system look. So there's a lot of stuff here that you can do, but it's all weird, but I've never used enlightenment before, but I've seen it like I've seen it like on Dester watch and you know blog Linux blogs and stuff like that and I've always thought it was a little weird and my experiences with it today are that it's a little weird. But that being said, body Linux is an interesting little distribution. It's based on Ubuntu and it uses a lot less resources than any other Ubuntu flavor that I know of. Even XSE and Alex Q are going to use more than what this does. And if you're into weird distros, this is definitely something that you should try. I don't think that any of it's necessarily bad. Now the themes were out there. Definitely not something that I would care for. But if you're into that kind of aesthetic that is just kind of odd and I mean a lot of people are that a lot of people don't like the traditional stuff. So they gravitate towards the more eclectic themes that are available for Linux. So and this definitely has quite a few of those. And in terms of functionality and stuff, it's a really nice Linux desktop. The way the menus works and the way stuff drags around and stuff reminds me a lot of OpenBox or other floating window managers. And this only takes a little bit of looking at the surface to know that there's just tons of stuff that you can do with body that is different than what you could do with other things. Now it might just be that those things are called different things. But you manage the bars and panels in different ways. You can add modules and gadgets and stuff to your desktop. So that's really cool. Personally, I wouldn't see a reason to use this outside of a laptop or something that has low resources. But that's just like I said, that's personally, I prefer to use a window manager or something like that if I was looking for something low resources that I didn't really that I wanted to theme stuff. But if you're a Linux user who wants to use an actual desktop environment who needs resources or desktop environment uses low resources, this is definitely something that you could try. So thank you for watching. You can follow me on Twitter at Linuxcast. You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linuxcast. Early access to videos should happen better this week than they did last week because they didn't happen at all last week. Before I go I'd like to take a moment to thank our current patrons, Devon, Marcus, Maeglin, Donnie, Sven, Merrick, Camp and Mitchell. Thanks everybody