EasyOS Daedalus-series 6.4.4
EasyOS was created in 2017, derived from Quirky Linux,
which in turn was derived from Puppy Linux in 2013. Easy
is built in woofQ, which takes as input binary packages
from any distribution, and uses them on top of the unique
EasyOS infrastructure.
Throughout 2020, the official release for x86_64 PCs was
the Buster-series, built with Debian 10.x Buster DEBs.
EasyOS has also been built with packages compiled from
source, using a fork of OpenEmbedded (OE). Currently, the
Scarthgap release of OE has been used, to compile binary
packages for x86_64.
Earlier releases of EasyOS compiled in OE are the
Kirkstone-series, Dunfell-series and Pyro-series. They
have also been compiled for aarch64 and EasyOS runs on the
Raspberry Pi4.
The last release of the x86_64 Dunfell-series was January
10, 2023, version 4.5.5. The announcement and release
notes are here:
https://bkhome.org/news/202301/easyos-dunfell-series-version-455-released.html
The latest (maintenance) release of the Kirkstone-series
was on August 14, 2024, version 5.8.4, announcement here:
https://bkhome.org/news/202408/easyos-kirkstone-series-version-584.html
The Daedalus-series is new, first released in October
2024. It is built with packages from the Devuan Daedalus
repository (equivalent to Debian Bookworm).
Both Scarthgap and Daedalus are active, until one day one
of them will be declared the "winner", or there will be a
successor.
The version number is for EasyOS itself, independent of
the target hardware; that is, the infrastructure,
support-glue, system scripts and system management and
configuration applications.
The latest version is becoming mature, though Easy is an
experimental distribution and some parts are under
development and are still considered as beta-quality.
However, you will find this distro to be a very pleasant
surprise, or so we hope.
6.4 release notes
This is the first release. There were some prior release
candidates.
6.4.1 release notes
The builtin browser changed from Firefox-ESR to Chromium.
Zig support in the 'devx' SFS (same as done for
Scarthgap).
6.4.3 release notes
New apps, little fixes and improvements:
Note that HTML-NOTEPAD is not builtin; it is installable
via PKGget.
6.4.4 release notes
Small changes:
About EasyOS
Why would you choose EasyOS
instead of some other Linux distribution?
For a quick overview of how EasyOS is different from
other Linux distributions, read this:
https://easyos.org/about/how-and-why-easyos-is-different.html
You will notice that the download is quite small, yet
contains just about every application you would ever need,
such as Firefox|Chromium browser, LibreOffice, Gimp, Dia,
Inkscape, Planner, Grisbi, Osmo, NoteCase, Celluloid and
Audacious. There are powerful system managers, such as
NetworkManager, EasyContainers, EasyVersionControl and
BluePup.
BluePup for example, is a bluetooth manager, unique to
EasyOS. Another unique tool is 'easydd', a GUI or CLI tool
for writing a drive-image file to SD-card or USB-stick.
Links
Website: https://easyos.org/
News: https://bkhome.org/news
Forum: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewforum.php?f=63
We are very grateful to Ibiblio for hosting
EasyOS, right from the start:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/
EasyOS has a mirror of ibiblio.org in Europe, thanks to NLUUG,
here:
https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/easyos/
Legal statement: https://easyos.org/about/legal-disclaimers-miscellania.html
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