easyVoid version 6.0 released

January 19, 2024 — BarryK

This is the very first release of easyVoid; EasyOS built from Void Linux binary packages. Despite the "6.0", this is an alpha-quality release and is intended for testers. Here are earlier blog posts:

Thinking how to manage the Void rolling release model — January 19, 2024
easyVoid is looking good — January 18, 2024
The return of EasyVoid — January 12, 2024

Download the drive-image file from here:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/void/

Newcomers to EasyOS are recommended to write the image-file to a USB-stick and boot from that. If you need guidance how to do that, read here:

https://easyos.org/install/how-to-write-easyos-to-a-flash-drive.html

...please use a USB drive of at least 16GB. It is also possible to do a direct install to internal drive; see tutorials at easyos.org.

easyVoid is being discussed on the Puppy Forum here:

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

There are some profound enhancements being dreamed of for the future of easyVoid; this will be on top of what is already an experimental distribution. It depends on no showstoppers being discovered, and my continued enthusiasm for this new direction, but may become an exciting new journey.

Anyway, although enhancements are planned, the fundamental operations of installing and running apps, setting up and using system utilities such as samba and bluetooth, should remain the same, and testers are welcome to try these. Report success/failure to the forum, and even better if you fix something let us know.

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