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newsEasyOS Dunfell-series 0.98 alpha released
The previous release in the Dunfell-series was 0.95, on October 24:
https://bkhome.org/news/202010/easyos-dunfell-series-095-alpha-release.html
The Dunfell-series is experimental, using packages compiled from
source in OE (OpenEmbedded). However, many developments in these alpha
releases are generic, meaning that they will apply to all future builds
of EasyOS and EasyPup. BluePup, the bluetooth manager, is an example.
Download 0.98 from here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/dunfell/0.98/
if you don't know how to write an image file to a USB Flash stick, read this:
https://easyos.org/install/how-to-write-easyos-to-a-flash-drive.html
The main reason that I have released 0.98 is to test BluePup, Recent posts have snapshots showing its usage:
https://bkhome.org/news/202011/connecting-a-loudspeaker-with-bluepup.html
https://bkhome.org/news/202011/connecting-a-keyboard-with-bluepup.html
https://bkhome.org/news/202010/connecting-a-mouse-with-bluepup.html
I was also able to pair with my phone, and send a file to it.
I would like testers to try BluePup, discover any problems. Some notes:
- If you connect to, say, a mouse, there will then appear a "DISCONNECT" button. However, do not click it, as reconnecting can be troublesome. Instead, disconnect by powering-off the mouse. I do intend to put some advice into the GUI not to use the "DISCONNECT" button.
- I have only implemented sending a file to a phone, not receive a
file. After having paired with a mobile phone, there is a "SEND FILE TO
PHONE" button, and all that does is call the 'bluetooth-sendto' GUI
utility, that is provided by the 'bluetooth-gnome' package. I do not, as
yet, know anything about obex, but the intention is to implement
receiving a file at some point in the future.
A further note about point-1. If you power-off the mouse, while
BluePup is running, the GUI will auto-update, however for some unknown
reason the kernel is very slow to discover when a bluetooth device has
powered-off, and you might have to wait a minute before the GUI updates.
If you turn the mouse back on, it should automatically reconnect and be
immediately usable, and if BluePup is running, the GUI will
automatically update, this time after only a few seconds.
I think that re-connect problems occur because most bluetooth devices
these days are BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), including mice and
keyboards. These "go to sleep" and 'bluetoothctl' utility cannot connect
to them. However, powering it off then on will reconnect. I wonder if
there is a "wake up" utility?
There is one mysterious issue, reported by 'banned' on the forum. An
'easy-*.img' file is not recognised as an EasyOS image file. What is
supposed to happen, is you can click on it and open it up. What you have
to do is load the 'devx' SFS, then run:
# update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
This is supposed to have happened when building in woofQ, but something is going wrong. I hope to fix that soon.
Testers welcome, the forum is here:
For anyone who might be interested in OpenEmbedded and how the Dunfell-series was created, read this old post:
https://bkhome.org/news/202009/openembeddedyocto-dunfell-meta-quirky-first-release.html
And go here to get the latest 'dunfell' tarball (see also the 'readme.txt' file):
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/project/oe/dunfell/
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