EasyOS without container support

A couple of days ago, posted that was thinking about removing containers from easy:

https://bkhome.org/news/202205/fix-detect-hdds-and-thinking-about-the-elephant-in-the-room.html

I have implemented this in woofQ; however, have not "burnt the bridges" -- there is a global variable, to choose whether to have containers or not, in woofQ when Easy is being built. The variable is "EOS_SUPPORT_CONTAINERS", and it is set in file 'build-choices'.

In woofQ, in the case of building Easy Bookworm, the file is at easy-distro/amd64/debian/bookworm/build-choices, which has these new lines:

#1=yes, 0 or anything else=no.
EOS_TOP_LEVEL_ZRAM='1'
#0=no, 1 or anything else=yes.
EOS_SUPPORT_CONTAINERS='0'

In the final build, 'build-choices' is copied into /root/.packages

Took a couple of days to work through woofQ, putting in tests for EOS_SUPPORT_CONTAINERS. End result, works great.

I have also overhauled the "Welcome" page at first bootup. This is at /usr/share/doc/easy/welcome.htm. As well as updating, I have simplified the explanation.

I am aiming for simplification right through, so that first-time uses won't be baffled by complex explanations. On the to-do list is to update and simplify the "How Easy Works" pages at easyos.org   

Tags: easy