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newsEasy Beaver 0.9.4 released
Easy Beaver 0.9.3 was released just two
days ago. It has the 4.18.8 kernel, but there was an advisory of a
security issue, so have now upgraded to 4.18.9. It also has
'youtube-dl', a YouTube downloader script, but we found that no longer
works -- a new script was made available yesterday and have upgraded.
The "desk" icon on the desktop did not work, as the 'xserver-xephyr' DEB
package was missing. These fixes were important, hence we have release
0.9.4.
Easy Beaver 0.9.2 was released in May 2018:
http://bkhome.org/news/201805/easy-beaver-092-released.html
Mostly, I have focused on the "Pyro" series of EasyOS, built with
packages compiled entirely from source, using my fork of OpenEmbedded.
However, also created some builds using Ubuntu DEBs -- there were some
releases based on Ubuntu Xenial Xerus DEBs, and one using Bionic Beaver
DEBS (0.9.2).
Have now built EasyOS x86_64 with Bionic Beaver 18.04.1 DEBs, codenamed "Easy Beaver", version 0.9.4. Download from here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/beaver/0.9.4/
Built with latest woofQ, so from that respect on a par with the Pyro
series. Building with Ubuntu DEBs does result in a considerably bigger
download file, however, weigh that against compatibility with the Ubuntu
DEB respositories.
The kernel is 4.18.9, patched with aufs.
The download is an image that you can write to a USB stick, as described here:
http://bkhome.org/easy/how-to-write-easyos-to-a-flash-drive.html
Pyro
Regarding the Pyro series, this generally sees more activity from me. These are the latest releases:
0.9.6.3, x86_64, Raspberry Pi3:
http://bkhome.org/news/201809/easyos-0963-64-bit-on-raspberry-pi.html
0.9.6, x86 32-bit, PC:
http://bkhome.org/news/201808/easyos-32-bit-version-096.html
0.9.6, x86_64, PC:
http://bkhome.org/news/201808/easyos-version-096-released.html
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