Bento is an Ubuntu Remix using mainly the lightweight Openbox window manager as a desktop.
It has been developed since 2012 around the Openbox window manager and features a dynamic applications menu via openbox-menu.
This distribution aims at providing all users with a system relying on Ubuntu and using Openbox window manager without sacrificing ease of use. It is a distribution easy to customize as a bento, and is designed to be working out of the box and used as is by the new users, while still being perfectly suitable for the advanced ones who likes to reshape the entire desktop. It is built on Ubuntu 12.04 to ensure a strong and reliable base for everyday computer usage.
The install comes with the programs Abiword and Gnumeric for the office programs, Gthumb to manage your pictures, Midori to surf the Web, Sylpheed for email, bogofilter for a spam filter, Cups, system-config-printer-gnome and other programs for easy printer configuration, Transmission for a torrent client, the multimedia player and collection manager Xnoise, because it is small and powerful. Are also installed some tools for accessibility which are available in the repositories. A more complete list of applications is available at the end of this page.
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First screen
When pressing a key on the keyboard within two seconds we get the language selection screen then several choices for booting. If we don’t press a key on the keyboard during the first two seconds we will reach a screen where it will still be possible to choose the langage as well as the install mode, or the «try without installing» option.
Downloads
Édit as of January 16, 2014:
Thanks to replace all links below with the ones you will find here (modification in progress):
https://linuxvillage.org/en/downloads/
Indeed, Nazral (Archlinux user), who has been lending his tyruiop.eu space kindly to host the files for projects I have been leading since a few years, moved to other countries since this month. I wish him a great voyage and wonderful adventures while going forward! I thank him very much for the service offered and for his generosity.
The links pointing to the web-space offered by phillw are still valid! Thanks to him as well.
The bento-ubuntu-remix-RC-linux-3.2.0-56_non-pae-i386-2012.04.3.iso version as it’s name indicates is provided with the current 12.04 version kernel and is fit for computers whose CPU does not provide the PAE instruction. Zram-config is not installed in it. (See bug #1246664)
- bento-ubuntu-remix-RC-linux-3.2.0-56_non-pae-i386-2012.04.3.iso
- bento-ubuntu-remix-RC-linux-3.2.0-56_non-pae-i386-2012.04.3.md5sum
The bento-ubuntu-remix-RC-linux-3.2.0-57-generic-i386-2012.04.3.iso, uploaded 10 days after the other ISO files presented here, is provided with a kernel not yet in the current repositories. This kernel version comes from update proposed, and brings in a bug correction which prevented zram-config to start the zram module correctly. This zram module is very interesting to have, in order to improve the live memory capacity. (See bug #1246664)
- bento-ubuntu-remix-RC-linux-3.2.0-57-generic-i386-2012.04.3.iso
- bento-ubuntu-remix-RC-linux-3.2.0-57-generic-i386-2012.04.3.iso.md5sum
The iso file bento-ubuntu-remix-RC-linux-3.8-fake-pae-i386-2012.04.3.iso comes with the 3.8.x kernel and the the fake-pae ppa of Bernd Kreuss, which allows starting systems with a pae kernel on some machines having the PAE instruction which however are not detected. (See here for more information https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu-fake-PAE). Some Pentium M and Celeron M are affected by this issue. Zram-config is installed in the system.
- bento-ubuntu-remix-RC-linux-3.8-fake-pae-i386-2012.04.3.iso
- bento-ubuntu-remix-RC-linux-3.8-fake-pae-i386-2012.04.3.md5sum
The version bento-ubuntu-remix-RC-linux-3.11-i386-2012.04.3.iso has the 3.11 kernel. I don’t know what more this kernel brings, besides being obviously bigger in size than the two other ones. It is provided with zram-config installed.
- bento-ubuntu-remix-RC-linux-3.11-i386-2012.04.3.iso
- bento-ubuntu-remix-RC-linux-3.11-i386-2012.04.3.md5sum
Full list of applications
Office
Abiword
Gnumeric
Evince
Internet
Midori
Sylpheed + Bogofilter
File managers
PCManFM 1.0
Midnight Commander (mc, semi graphical)
Text editor
Mousepad
Webcam
Guvcview
Mail
Sylpheed
Sylpheed-i18n
Bogofilter
Accessories
File-roller (archive manager)
Galculator (calculator)
Xournal (notetaking application + adding annotations to PDF documents)
Graphics
Gthumb (image viewer and organizer)
flphoto (allows the access to pictures on some MPT-PTP digital cameras)
Gpicview (simple images viewer)
French locales
language-pack-fr
language-pack-fr-base
language-pack-gnome-fr
language-pack-gnome-fr-base
Scanner
Simple-scan
Character Map
Gucharmap
Torrent client
Transmission
Multimedia
Xnoise (reading and managing audio and video collections)
Radiotray (radio streams in the systray)
Deadbeef (simple music reader)
Brasero (burn CD/DVD)
Gnome-alsamixer (tune the volume)
Volumeicon-alsa (control of the volume for the systray)
Among which some codecs
libmatroska5
gstreamer0.10-nice
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps
gstreamer0.10-tools
gstreamer0.10-x
System tools and preferences
Network-manager-gnome (manage Internet connections)
Bleachbit (cleaning the system)
Htop (watch and manage processes)
Sakura (terminal emulator)
Among which applications management
Ubuntu Software Center (Choose and install programs)
Synaptic (Install, uninstall and update all programs all at once)
Gdebi (install an Ubuntu deb package)
Update-notifier (management and reminder for the updates)
Text mode programs
Imagemagick (collection of tools to modify images)
Lftp (command line ftp client)
Openssh (server and client)
Testdisk (restore deleted partition tables)
Sdparm (manipulate SCSI peripherals parameters)
Hdparm (manipulate IDE peripherals parameters)
Foremost (restore deleted files)
Lshw (list hardware components)
Many more programs are available on the Ubuntu repositories. Additionally several more sources from the community have been added, especially to get a recent version of the Libreoffice suite, as well as several other programs already integrated into Bento. You will find more information about the PPA system on the Ubuntu documentation page
Thanks
Thanks to all the people whose work allowed creating this version: the programmers whose work have been used, the artists who created the different parts used for the theme, and thanks to all the testers who brought feedback version after version since 2012.
Disclaimer
Bento Ubuntu Remix is not an official Canonical project. It is delivered to you under the GPL licence except for the system parts which can be under other licences, free or not free as per the GNU GPL licenses such as some firmwares whose distribution is allowed and whose licenses are located under /usr/share/doc/linux-firmware/licenses in the system tree directory. The licenses for the other packages forming the system are under /usr/share/doc in their related directories.
Bento Ubuntu Remix is provided as is without any guarantee: we can’t be held responsible for any breakage in your system or in your hardware. We provide no guarantee
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