Playing with Easy Daedalus

There are those who loved Easy Buster, EasyOS built with Debian Buster packages. This had access to the enormous Debian repository, which was the main attraction.

Awhile ago, I experimented with Easy Bookworm; however, could not get LibreOffice to start. There were no error messages, just nothing, not aven the splash logo. It was waiting for something, and back then I tried to trace it; found where it was not returning from a function, but couldn't understand what it was waiting for. Online searching did not help.

Devuan Daedalus is the equivalent of Bookworm, except without systemd. Decided to give it another go, except this time build with Daedalus packages.

Note, I did download DevuanPup, created by josejp2424, see forum. Wrote the .iso to a usb stick, booted it and got a black screen.

EasyOS Daedalus-series looks good:

Brief testing, everything is working ...except LibreOffice. Same problem, hangs at startup.

Did a lot more online reading last night, and came up with a reference to apparmor causing startup hanging. Easy Daedalus has the apparmor package installed, to meet some dependency requirements, but the daemon isn't running. Played around a bit with that, then decided to compile LibreOffice, in a running Easy Daedalus.

...and, LibreOffice works.

Too big though, as I built with minimal use of system libraries. Today will have a go at compiling again, and reduce the size.

I did post yesterday about incorporating the Debian repositories into Easy Scarthgap-series; will probably continue to investigate that. However, Easy Daedalus is looking good, so tempted to release it. Will do some more testing first though.    

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