easyVoid is looking good

The previous blog post is about returning to easyVoid:

https://bkhome.org/news/202401/the-return-of-easyvoid.html

We have been discussing easyVoid on the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=9553

As I am working on it, it continues to be a pleasant experience. There are issues, that I will work on; however, reckon will go for it and release easyVoid version 6.0 soon.

Decided to jump to version "6" as this might be the start of something quite different. Testers will be welcome, and there are bound to be bugs, so the first stable release will probably be 6.1.

Not that we can really achieve a "stable release" with the Void rolling-release model. That is something that I have ideas to improve. Whether those ideas come to fruition depends on whether still happy with easyVoid after a few more weeks of development.

6.0 will not have the xbps package manager, relying totally on PKGget.

I tested on my old Compaq Presario, with Intel Core2 CPU and 2GB RAM -- easyVoid runs great. Didn't do much, just ran Firefox and watched a 720p YouTube video.

On my Lenovo desktop PC, with i3 CPU and 32GB RAM, at first bootup there was some video wierdness. Mostly text was rendering with characters missing. Xorg had chosen the 'intel' driver, which rang a bell; exited from X to the console, ran "xorgwizard" and it told me that the intel driver is using "sna" acceleration and offered to change to "uxa". Which I accepted, and video now OK.

Anyway, here is a photo, taken on the Compaq:

...yeah, decided to put together a new theme. Rather bland grey seems appropriate for a "void" distro. It looks alright I think. I have never been satisfied with grey themes, but this one seems passable.

As usual, have included lots of apps builtin. Firefox browser instead of Chromium, as FF is running fine, no flickering. This is the very latest FF. LibreOffice, Inkscape, heaps more included.

Tested printing, audio, working.

So what doesn't work? Flapi fails. Haven't tried Samba. I will see if can fix Flapi before releasing 6.0. Other things, like Samba, testers will be welcome.    

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