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Today I am happy to announce the second snapshot release of the Moksha Desktop – 0.2.0. For those who prefer to play first and read release notes second you can find the release downloads on our GitHub repo here. Those who wish to try the latest Moksha desktop release on a live CD can download and update a Bodhi Linux Live CD.

For those who are unfamiliar with the Moksha project – it is a Linux desktop that is the natural continuation of the Enlightenment DR17 desktop. This means Moksha is lightweight, fast, flexible, and customizable. Moksha is built on top of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries which are optimized to run well on mobile systems as slow as 300mhz with only 128MB of RAM. If you want to learn about the inception of the Moksha Desktop project you can read about it here.

The changes for this Moksha release include:

Improvements to the enlightenment_remote command to allow Swami to have increased functionality.

Addition of a startup commands file to allow user to add startup commands without first creating a .desktop file for every command. Learn more about this feature here.

Merged default Moksha profile into the primary repository

Finished clean up / removal of E17 modules we do not want to support / improve under Moksha.

Removal of old subversion revisioning / files since the project utilizes git now

Something to note with this release is that the default profile utilizes a couple of modules that are not within Moksha’s core. To obtain the best experience with the desktop you should also compile and install the Pulse Mixer module from here and the places module from here.

If you encounter a bug while using this release you can open an issue report on our GitHub page here. If you need help installing or configuring your Moksha desktop you can leave a comment below or open a thread in the Moksha user forums.





Cheers,

~Jeff Hoogland