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EasyOS Scarthgap and Daedalus version 6.4

October 28, 2024 — BarryK

I'm currently maintaining three Linux distributions; EasyOS Scarthgap-series, EasyOS Daedalus-series and QV (Quirky Void). maybe in a year or so, that will be rationalized down to one "winner", but for now, there are three to choose from.

Scarthgap
Scarthgap is the main guy, packages compiled entirely from source in my fork of OpenEmbedded (here). The other two are newcomers, and Scarthgap is most mature and likely to continue to be my main focus going forward. So if you are new to EasyOS, I recommend choose Scarthgap.

Scarthgap release notes:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/6.4/release-notes.htm

Download:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/6.4/

Mirror in Europe, thanks to the Netherlands Linux/Unix User Group:

https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/6.4/

There is also a mirror in Australia, though right now 6.4 hasn't arrived there:

https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/

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:

Forum feedback for Scarthgap is welcome here.

Daedalus
Daedalus-series has been built with Devuan Daedalus (Debian Bookworm) DEB packages, with some Kirkstone OpenEmbedded-compiled packages. The main advantage is that PKGget, the the package manager, has access to the large Devuan/Debian package repository (Scarthgap has a much smaller repository, but both have support for AppImages, Flatpaks and SFS files).

There are no release note; just read recent blog posts:

Download:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2024/6.4/

Forum feedback welcome here.

QV
This is totally different. EasyOS is experimental; QV is experimental on steroids. It does not use aufs or overlay layered filesystem. It uses BTRFS and exploits the snapshot capability. PKGget has access to the fairly large Void Linux package repository. The project page at github has some introductory notes:

https://github.com/bkauler/woof-quantum-vis

Download:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky-void/amd64/releases/base/

Version-numbering is by date, most recent is 24-10-07. There is supposed to be an update mechanism, but I haven't got around to that yet.

Forum feedback is welcome here.

A final note: I have been exploring ways to add another package repository to Scarthgap. KDE apps for example, are wanted by some users; though, they are available as AppImages and Flatpaks. Anyway, I do intend to explore strategies for offering more packages in Scarthgap.

Have fun!   

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