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newsEasyOS version 1.0 released
After innumerable 0.x releases, we now have 1.0! What needs to be
understood, though, is that EasyOS is an experimental distribution,
very much a work-in-progress in places, and the "1.0" does not imply
that Easy has reached a maturity that you would expect of the mainline
distributions.
Having got that disclaimer out of the way, it also needs to be stated
that the 1.0 does proclaim that Easy has reached a certain level of
capability, that many users will find meets all their needs, with
innovations and concepts that induces an excitement that might be said
to be lacking in the mainline distributions.
There is a webpage that will give you a quick appreciation of why
Easy is different, and will, hopefully, show why the word "excitement"
applies:
https://easyos.org/about/how-and-why-easyos-is-different.html
So, want to try Easy?
Download and install
Download from here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/pyro/1.0/
You will need a PC with 64-bit x86 CPU, at least 2GB RAM, minimum 1024x768 screen resolution. The BIOS can be either type, the old "traditional" BIOS in PCs prior to 2012, or the "modern" UEFI type.
The download file is intended to be written to a USB Flash drive. If you don't know how to write the file to a USB-stick, there are instructions here;
https://easyos.org/install/how-to-write-easyos-to-a-flash-drive.html
You will see in the above link, there is also a live-CD ISO file. Do
not use this unless you have to. It is intended for those people with
PCs that will not boot from USB, or for old-timers who still think
optical media is the greatest thing since floppy disks.
The live-CD has limitations, however, is usable and has session-save capability, as explained here:
http://bkhome.org/news/201812/permanent-saving-for-easyos-live-cd.html
If you want to explore how to install to an internal drive, even do
so directly without creating a Easy USB-stick or live-CD, look at these
pages:
https://easyos.org/tag_install.html
Regarding a USB Flash drive, please, please, do use a reasonable
quality drive. The difference between crap and good Flash-sticks is only
a few dollars, as explained here:
http://bkhome.org/news/201901/sandisk-ultra-32gb-usb3-flash-drive.html
If you are a non-English speaker/reader, there is good news...
International releases
Yep, there are 1.0 releases ready-to-go for a specific language, for
now, only de (German), es (Spanish), fr (French), pl (Polish), pt
(Portuguese) and ru (russian). You will find the them here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/pyro/1.0/international/
Not quite there, but the intention is that these releases will bootup
in the target language, fully translated, nothing else to install or
configure.
If this interests you and you want to contribute, you are most
welcome! You may also request another language. Please read this link
for further information:
http://bkhome.org/news/201901/non-english-builds-of-easyos.html
MoManager is the tool most convenient to use for contributing
translations. The latest version of MoManager is maintained by Lutz
(Puppy Forum member 'L18L'), and if there is anything that you don't
understand or needs fixing in MoManager, please contact him.
Note that langpacks created for EasyOS are slightly different from those used in Puppy Linux.
Another point: The Woof build system creates a language-specific
build of Easy by building in translations provided by the packages,
including dictionaries. Most packages come with translation files for
various languages, which are left out out the English build due to the
size, however, a language-specific build inludes all translations for
that language. Some packages, such as SeaMonkey, have an external
language pack, and woof automatically downloads that.
Thus, a langpack PET package mostly needs only to provide translations for executables and documentation built-in to Easy.
Feedback
Which brings us to how to provide feedback. Easy has his own forum, here:
There is also a thread on the Puppy Forum:
...please do not post questions about EasyOS elsewhere on the Puppy
Forum, as it creates confusion. That forum is for Puppy Linux, with
specific sections for discussion of forks, derivatives, and other Linux
distributions.
Have fun!
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