site  contact  subhomenews

EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.3 released

September 10, 2024 — BarryK

Significant changes this time. Version 6.2 was released only about 3 weeks ago:

If you are new to EasyOS, you might find it helpful to read the announcement for 6.0, the start of the 6.x versions:

There are two major improvements in 6.3, relative to 6.2: enhancements for running in icon-free-desktop mode, and builtin ibus input method with Chinese support.

In the initrd, now there is a choice of "zh Chinese" and the desktop and apps are partly translated. Here is a snapshot showing the QuickSetup app, which I translated using MoManager's automatic translation:

img1

...the snapshot also shows the ibus tray app, for selecting different input methods.

Here is the menu:

img2

Here is the icon-free-desktop (also known as jwm-mode):

img3

The wallpaper is a lake at a Chinese village. In jwm-mode, the quality of the wallpaper image is somewhat degraded; something that we need to find out why.

I have used MoManager to translate only a few scripts. MoManager uses Google or Bing for automatic translation, and manual fixing. I could see that the translations are not perfect, as can be seen in the photo of QuickSetup; however, I have no knowledge of Chinese language. I welcome help; forum discussion thread here:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=130645#p130645

Release notes for 6.3:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/6.3/release-notes.htm

Download, courtesy of ibiblio.org:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/6.3/

Fast mirror in Europe, courtesy of NLUUG:

https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/

Feedback is welcome in the forum, in this thread:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=130646#p130646

Have fun!     

Tags: easy