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EasyOS, a simple and secure Linux distribution
EasyOS, also known as Easy OS, Easy Linux, or just "Easy", is an experimental distribution, a "new paradigm"; a blend of
the best ideas from Puppy and Quirky, and a fundamental rethink of
the security, maintainability and ease-of-use.
Easy has his own website:
There is also a forum:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewforum.php?f=63
https://bkhome.org/news/tag_easy.html
Have fun!
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EasyDD: write image file to drive
EasyDD is an application for writing an operating system image file to a drive. Typically, this might be something like writing file 'debian-1.2.3.img.gz' (for example) to an SD-card for a RaspberryPi board, to a USB-stick for a desktop PC or laptop, or for any other board or computer.
EasyDD is a simple bash script, capable of running in either CLI (commandline) mode or GUI (graphical) mode.
In CLI mode it will run on any Linux OS, as it only uses utilities
such as 'grep', 'sed', 'dd' and 'gunzip', available on even the most
cut-down Linux distribution.
GUI mode, however, requires 'gtkdialog', which is an executable that scripts use to provide GUI
windows. Gtkdialog is in all Puppy Linux, Fatdog, EasyOS, and
all Puppy-derivatives, but may not be in some other Linux distributions.
There is no problem with using EasyDD in CLI mode, in fact that is
the author's preferred mode. If you are running some Linux
distribution other than a Puppy-derivative, and 'gtkdialog' is not available, you should be fine to run EasyDD in CLI mode.
EasyDD script download and usage
EasyOS and EasyPup already have it, at /usr/sbin/easydd. For everyone else, download it from here:
https://bkhome.org/files/easydd.gz
Quirky Linux, an experimental distribution
Quirky Linux is an experimental distribution, created by Barry
Kauler in 2013, after he retired from leading the Puppy Linux project.
Quirky is similar to Puppy from the User Interface and applications
point of view, but underneath has significant differences. Originally,
Quirky was a "full installation" only, with special snapshot and
recovery features. Later, live-CD running-in-RAM with session-saving was
added, and a "frugal installation" mode, however all of this is
different from Puppy.
Quirky is created with the woofQ build system, which forked
from Woof2, the Puppy builder. Note, the current Puppy builder is
Woof-CE (maintained by the "Puppy Community"). Woof can build a Puppy or Puppy-like distro from any binary
packages, including those from Ubuntu, Debian, or Slackware, or packages
compiled from source (T2 or OpenEmbedded).
As from December 16, 2018, Quirky Linux is a discontinued project.
Quirky has been superseded by a new experimental distribution, EasyOS. Please go here:
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