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Blocklist-Update.sh

Blocklist-Update.sh is a script that I wrote to manage blocklists from bluetack etc to be used in conjunction with Transmission torrent downloader in Linux/MacOS. The script can be taylored to work with Qbittorrent as well, but the placement of the blocklists means you'd have to redirect the blocklist to go somewhere locally manageable as Transmission uses its own blocklist directory in .config. I believe there are about 10 lists there now. It works well for my needs. It can be ran weekly using crontab in standard user profile.  To download:  blocklist-update.sh To download the others:  Github
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SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO

Bodhi Linux, which is currently at version 4.5.0(Possibly final build based on 16.04 which just includes updates to packages and the like), will be releasing alpha images of 5.0.0 soon. This new version will be based on Ubuntu 18.04 and will update the default kernel along with nearly all the libraries. As for the desktop itself, it is still unclear as to whether Jeff, the lead developer, will decide to update that package yet. The current version is stable enough, but still it will be interesting to see where 5.0.0 goes.

Many users of Ubuntu are concerned with the opt out style model Ubuntu was trying to press to retrieve user diagnostics and telemetry data. This is a privacy concern, however, it is unclear as to the details of whether Bodhi will have anything like that in the Ubiquity installer or not. Linux Mint has decided that they will not be doing that in version 19. Currently, information on the matter is rather sparse as the lead developer, Jeff Hoogland only stated on an April 30, 2018 blog titled “March & April 2018 Donation Totals” that he and his team would be working on 5.0.0 discs in the first couple weeks of May.

More info will be reported as more info is received. As for the current release, you will not have to reinstall if you are already using Bodhi 4.x series. Bodhi Linux uses the Enlightenment desktop and is liked for its modest system requirements among other things. Bodhi Linux is simple at first boot and is built that way. Bodhi was forked off of the original Pantheon desktop in order to correct some critical errors or bugs that Hoogland found in the E17 version. Bodhi is not a release half fixed desktop, it is a release when ready distribution.


If you wish to download Bodhi for yourself, go here. If you wish to query solutions for issues  you might have, go here. Donations and merchandise, go here & here. 

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