EasyOS Daedalus-series version 6.3.90 (6.4RC)

Devuan is a Linux distribution forked from Debian, almost identical except does not use systemd. Debian Bookworm is the current stable release, and Devuan calls it "Daedalus". I posted about building EasyOS with Daedalus packages a couple of days ago:

• Playing with Easy Daedalus — October 14, 2024

A bit worried about fracturing my development effort, but decided to go with it. There are now three projects; Easy Scarthgap-series, Quirky Void (QV) and Easy Daedalus-series.

EasyOS version numbering is based on the Easy infrastructure, not what packages are used to build the distribution, so version numbers keep going up, yet changing the packages could result, will result, in new issues.

Download the drive-image file, courtesy of ibiblio:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2024/6.3.90/

Thanks to the Netherlands Linux/Unix User Group for mirroring:

https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2024/6.3.90/

And AARNET in Australia (but 6.3.90 not yet there):

https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/easyos/amd64/releases/

If you are new to EasyOS and need help how to write a drive-image file to a USB Flash drive, read this:

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

Or, you could open up the image file and install direct to the internal drive. See install tutorials here:

https://easyos.org/

...it is very simple if you already have a boot-manager such as GRUB or REFind installed; just need to copy three files to a folder in any ext4 partition, then make an entry in the boot-manager.

Oh yes, the obligatory photo:

After limited testing, looks good, but testers are welcome -- I'm sure you will find issues! Feedback welcome at the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=133213#p133213

Some usage notes from my limited testing:

I tested samba and it worked, but I left out the 'samba-vfs-module', that I had included in earlier Bookworm testing. I don't know what that package does. Without it, was able to open a folder on another computer over the local network.

The discussion thread on Easy Daedalus started before this release, and I posted about a problem with KDE Dolphin file manager:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=133193#p133193

...note though, Dolphin works fine OOTB in QV. But then, QV is built from the ground-up using the XBPS package manager.

Devuan uses Debian packages, except where they have had to modify the package not to require systemd. The Devuan package server is deb.devuan.org and in most cases it forwards a package request to one of the Debian mirrors. However, at certain times the forwarding fails -- it seems deb.devuan.org becomes overloaded. PKGget will seem to have frozen; in that case, click the "Abort" button and there will be another window offering to retry. It has always worked on the retry. Anyway, most of the time downloading is OK.

Any more issues, let me know!

Will Daedalus-series be a long-term "stayer"? Don't know, depends on user interest and also my level of interest and available time.    

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