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indexYouTube EasyOS-series Part-5
This is a short video, only 3 minutes, showing the early boot menu in the 'initrd':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpFWLtrSEfo
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Oh dear what has become of this world?
I miss cars from about 15 years ago. New cars now... I won't go there, something else has happened that I find alarming...
I am currently renting an apartment, previously did own one, but now renting. Anyway, the light in the lounge room failed, so got a ladder to change the light globe. Took off the cover, and was shocked. This is what I saw:
...a complete assembly. Sent an email to the rental agent, she booked an electrician, who came this morning.
Electricians are in high demand here, so I imagine the call-out fee will be high, perhaps around AU$100. Asked Google AI:
In Perth, a typical electrician call-out fee ranges from $80
to $160. This fixed charge covers travel time, fuel, vehicle
costs, and usually the first 15 to 30 minutes of on-site
assessment. It is billed separately from the standard hourly
labor rate, which generally sits between $90 and $150
This is what they fitted, a ROBUS RLUS1824CCT3-01:
...AU$163.46 OK, that is probably the retail price. It is only
guaranteed for 3 years.
There was a time when I would have just gone down to the local
shopping centre and bought a new LED globe for about 15 dollars. I
am left muttering, oh dear...
Tags: ethos
YouTube EasyOS-series Part-4
This is the fourth video in this series, showing how to bootup from a USB Flash drive. Here are the earlier videos:
- Youtube EasyOS-series Part-3 — June 21, 2026
- YouTube EasyOS-series second video created — June 21, 2026
- EasyOS introduction video on YouTube — June 11, 2026
In the previous video in this series, Part3, I showed how to download EasyOS and write it to a USB Flash drive. In this video, Part4, I show how to get the computer to startup from the flash drive, then show some basic setup when the EasyOS desktop has loaded.
If your computer has Windows installed, I recommend read this webpage:
https://easyos.org/install/prepare-your-computer-for-booting-linux.htmlIt explains that you need to turn off Windows "Fast Startup". It also explains that you need to disable "Secure Boot" in the UEFI Setup.
This link shows all of the EasyOS-series videos, including Part-4:
https://www.youtube.com/@barrykauler/videos
I'm thinking of recording Part-5 tonight, showing the boot menu
in the initrd.
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Disable Gnome accessibility
See report from Miminou:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=172561#p172561
I have appended to /etc/profile.d/pup_gtk:
#Qt4 apps need this variable (also see Style=GTK+ in /root/.config/Trolltech.conf)...
#Qt4 note also, /root/.gtkrc-2.0 needs this line: gtk-theme-name="name of gtk theme"
export GTK2_RC_FILES=/root/.gtkrc-2.0
#20260622
#ref: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=172561#p172561
export GTK_A11Y='none'
export GDK_BACKEND='x11'
Have not yet fixed that "(nvisuals == 1)"
warning.
Tags: easy
Obsolete scripts removed
Forum member Miminou identified these:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=172561#p172561
Have removed these:
/usr/local/bin/fmradioshell, meeboview
/usr/sbin/gaimshell, gaim-autosetup.sh, puppyhelp
There's probably more, we will find them.
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Youtube EasyOS-series Part-3
Progress! Have recorded another video.
"EasyOS Part3: Install to flash drive"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uimpmuV3mU
Next next one, will probably use my phone to show the bootup of
the Lexar flash drive.
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YouTubeDL downloader fixed
This is in the "Internet" menu category. It works in Easy 7.4, not in 7.4.1.
There is a missing package in 7.4.1; 'python3-certifi', but it is a mystery why it was installed in 7.4, not in 7.4.1.
'python3-certifi' is a dependency of 'python3-requests', which is installed in 7.4, not in 7.4.1.
Looking at the installed packages in 7.4, 'python3-requests' is not a dependency of anything. So why did APT install it in 7.4?
Puzzled. Anyway, have added 'python3-certifi' explicitly to the build list in woofQ2.
EDIT 2026-06-22:
Ah, solution; forum member Caramel found out that
'python3-requests' is a dependency of 'streamtuner2', that was
in 7.4, but got replaced with 'yradio' in 7.4.1.
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YouTube EasyOS-series second video created
After creating the first video, there was a need for improvement. The second video shows the tweaks to improve the recording:
"EasyOS Part2: Recording tweaks"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW8T_VQfsS8
As I was up all night creating this app, "EasySR", going to take
the day off, have a nice meal in the city for lunch, visit a
library.
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