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newsEasy Buster 2.1 released
This is the start of EasyOS "Buster" series, versions 2.x. Announcement blurb:
EasyOS versions 1.x are the "Pyro" series, the latest is 1.2.
Easy Pyro is built with packages compiled from source using
'oe-qky-src', a fork of OpenEmbedded. Consequently, the builds are small
and streamlined and integrated. The Pyro series may have future
releases, but it is considered to be in maintenance mode.
The "Buster" series start from version 2.0, and are intended
to be where most of the action is, ongoing. Version 2.0 was really a
beta-quality build, to allow the testers to report back. The first
official release is 2.1.
The main feature of Easy Buster is that it is built from
Debian 10 Buster DEBs, using WoofQ (a fork of Woof2. Woof-CE is another
fork of Woof2, used to build Puppy Linux).
The advantage of Buster over Pyro is access to the large Debian package repositories. That is a big plus.
On the other hand, DEB packages have many dependencies, and
the end result is a release considerably larger than Pyro with similar
app selection. For example, the download file of Pyro 1.2 is 418MB,
Buster is 504MB -- despite the Buster build having less apps (Pyro has
Qt5 and big Qt5-based apps such as Scribus, this is all missing from the
Buster build, but can be installed).
Another problem with Buster, potential problem anyway, is the
choice of underlying infrastructure. For example, Debian uses systemd,
pam, avahi and policykit -- EasyOS does not use these, but as they are
dependencies of many apps, they have to be installed, yet inactive.
Detailed release notes are here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/buster/2.1/release-notes-2.1.htm
It is recommended to also read this "readme" file:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/buster/2.1/readme.htm
Download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/buster/2.1/
Feedback is welcome, in this forum thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=109958
Have fun!
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