EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.5 released

Version 5.4.10 was released on August 8, 2023, see announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202308/easyos-kirkstone-series-version-5410-released.html

If you are new to EasyOS, read the 5.4 release announcement as it has getting-started links:

https://bkhome.org/news/202306/easyos-kirkstone-series-version-54-released.html

Version 5.5 release notes:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.5/release-notes.htm

The biggest news item is the move to "usr-merge". A brief introduction to the concept is in this post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202309/oe-and-woofq-change-to-usr-merge.html

Another change is promotion of Figaro's Password Manager as the default pw manager, with icon in the tray. It is the lock symbol:

Download:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.5/

For an existing installation, as usual click the "update" icon to download a smaller "difference file". However, these are about 500MB, very big. This is mostly due to the many changes in the folder hierarchy.

There is a fast download mirror in Europe, courtesy of NLUUG:

https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.5/

Feedback is welcome in the EasyOS section of the Puppy Forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewforum.php?f=63

Have fun!

EDIT 2023-09-13:
A quick bugfix, version 5.5.1 released:

https://bkhome.org/news/202309/easyos-kirstone-series-version-551-released.html        

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