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newsEasyOS Buster 2.6.1 released for x86_64 PC
EasyOS Buster-series 2.5.5 was released on December 24, 2020:
https://bkhome.org/news/202012/easyos-buster-255.html
Here are the release notes for 2.6.1:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/buster/2.6.1/release-notes-2.6.1.htm
Download English, French, German and Norwegian (nb and nn) builds of 2.6.1:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/buster/2.6.1/
Thanks to Jostein, we have Norwegian builds:
https://bkhome.org/news/202101/norwegian-language-pets-for-easyos.html
..they are completely untested, I haven't even booted them. So
feedback is welcome. We should create a thread for this on the forum.
The jump from version 2.5.5 is misleading, as there haven't been many
changes. The version number has been bumped up to match the
Dunfell-series, as explained in the Dunfell 2.6.1 announcement here:
https://bkhome.org/news/202101/easyos-dunfell-261-released-for-x8664-pc.html
Installation
A little note about EasyOS image files. I have been communicating
with someone who was having difficulty installing to hard drive, and
found all the documentation confusing. Emails went to and fro, until I
finally realised the fundamental problem. The person has a lot of Linux
experience, but it has all been with ISO files. He thinks that booting
up from a USB-stick is just like with an ISO, it is not installed, and
an installer has to be run.
He was making statements like "It booted on the USB-stick, but it
seems to have installed itself to the USB-stick and deleted the
installer. How do I get the installer back?" -- which didn't make any
sense to me. This is the ISO-centric mindset, that you have to wean
yourself off.
An Easy image file, 'easy *.img.gz', is a hard drive image, for a
complete drive, and when written to the drive, it will be already
installed. No "installer" is required. The drive image file could be
written to any drive, such as HDD or SSD, not only a USB-stick. The Easy
drive image even has it's own boot manager, Refind for UEFI and
Syslinux for BIOS.
Or, you can follow the simple instructions for a "frugal" install to a
partition in HDD or SSD, documented online. You don't even have to be
running EasyOS to do that, though it is simpler if you boot Easy first
on a USB-stick, then do the frugal install.
Page with links to install tutorials:
https://easyos.org/tag_install.html
feedback is welcome on the forum:
Tags: easy