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newsEasy Pyro version 1.2 released
Version 1.1.1 was supposed to be the EOL (End Of Line) for the
Pyro series, superceded by the Buster series. Buster version 2.1 will be
announced later today.
I am fond of the Pyro series, and have decided to keep it going,
though it will likely only be the occasional maintenance release. Here
is an announcement blurb for 1.2:
At the time of writing, Easy Buster 2.1 is being released. Although
the Buster series is intended to receive most attention ongoing, Barry
decided to keep doing maintenance releases of the Pyro series.
Although the package versions, such as gcc, glibc and libraries, are
starting to get a bit "long in the tooth", Barry retains a fondness for
them due to the very small size and targeted configuration. That is, the
packages were compiled from source, using 'oe-qky-src', a fork of
OpenEmbedded, so there are no unwanted dependencies, meaning no bloat.
Consider, the 'easy-1.2-amd64.img.gz' download file is 418MB. This
includes the "kitchen sink" of applications, both GTK2, GTK3 and Qt5
based apps. On the other-hand, Buster 'easy-2.1-amd64.img.gz' is 504MB
and has less apps -- Qt5 libraries and apps such as Scribus (desktop
publisher) were left out, to limit the size.
Yes, Buster works, and has the advantage of access to the huge Debian
package respositories (which was the main reason to go for it).
However, small size, and the seamless integration off all
packages, are the arguments in favour of Pyro. Pyro has a much smaller
on-line app repository.
More detailed release notes are here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/pyro/1.2/release-notes-pyro-1.2.htm
It is recommended also to read the "readme" file here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/pyro/1.2/readme.htm
Download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/pyro/1.2/
...note, there are German, French and English builds.
Feedback:
Feedback is welcome, at this forum thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=109958
Known bugs and issues:
There is one tiny bug in the initrd, fixing of GTK theming when SFS
layers change. Non-critical and will be fixed in the next release.
When testing 1.2, one of my USB Flash sticks decided to become
corrupted, resulting in a failure to boot. I intend to address the
situation of a faulty Flash drive, as it is not just old drives, even
new very cheap sticks can be faulty. Firstly, I propose to put some
testing into the EasyDD utility.
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