Moksha: Just an Enlightenment Fork or the Birth of a new Desktop? | Linux Today

Moksha: Just an Enlightenment Fork or the Birth of a new Desktop?

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Christine Hall
Aug 20, 2015

For those who don’t know, since its inception back around 2011, Bodhi Linux’s biggest reason for being is as a showpiece for the Enlightenment desktop. Unfortunately, it turned out that it was really Enlightenment version 17 that was on show, and when Enlightenment moved on to 18 about a year and a half ago, and in subsequent releases, the Bodhi team began to realize that the desktop wasn’t going in the direction they would have hoped.

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