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EasyOS verions 0.8.x to present (1.0.14), has been built in Woof
from binary packages that I compiled entirely from source, using my port
of OpenEmbedded/Yocto.
The last update of my OE port, that I codenamed "thud", has issues.
It was an lot of work, and trying to fix packages that don't work right,
is a never-ending task. The thing is, the major distros have many
people working on compiling packages and getting them to work right in
the host OS environment. I have to save myself a lot of frustration and
leverage on that.
Then there is the problem of getting some packages to compile. That
can be very frustrating also. With a major distro, those hurdles are
jumped, with the maintainers having created patches and whatever else the
package needs to compile and work properly.
Woof, from its inception, was designed to build Puppy Linux from the
binary packages of any other distro. That continues with woof-CE, used
to build the current releases of Puppy, using, for example, Debian and
Ubuntu binary DEB packages.
My fork of Woof builds Quirky and EasyOS. I called it woofQ, but then
Quirky got retired, so now just call it Woof, though I suppose it could
be named woofE.
I have a philosophical objection to building EasyOS from Debian or
Ubuntu DEBs. Various reasons. I don't like the way that they mess around
with the organization of packages, and breaking them up into multiple
small DEBs. Especially, I don't like the dependence on systemd.
Slackware leaves the packages complete, and pristine, as the original
authors designed them. Slackware does not use systemd. Slackware is
conservative in every respect, and is one of the few remaining Linux
distros that remain true to its Unix roots, in terms of simplicity, file
hierarchy and configuration.
I was going to wait until version 15.0 is released, but that is a
never-ending wait. The current version, 14.2, was released in 2016, and
there was some discussion about releasing 15.0 in 2018, but it didn't
happen.
So, I will draw the binary packages from "slackware-current", and maybe just assign it as version 14.99.
Importantly, I need to be able to create aarch64 builds of Easy. The
official Slackware repository only supports 32-bit ARM, however, there is
an unofficial arm64 port:
https://gitlab.com/sndwvs/slarm64-current
and:
https://bitbucket.org/sndwvs/slarm64-current/src/master/
Slarm64 packages are here:
http://mirrors.slackware.bg/slarm64/slarm64-current/
and:
http://slackware.uk/slarm64/slarm64-current/
There are some other aarch64 packages here:
http://dl.fail.pp.ua/slackware/pkg/aarch64/
and:
http://mrp.org.ua/linux/slackware/pkg/aarch64/
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