EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.4.5 released

This is the countdown to releasing version 6.5, that I hope to release as a (early) Christmas present and announce on Distrowatch.

What has been happening recently is Easy Containers has undergone major improvements, especially running Easy Daedalus in a container. The release notes has links to posts that document this:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/6.4.5/release-notes.htm

if you are going to update an installation of Easy Scarthgap, usual process, click on the desktop "update" icon; from 6.4.4 it is only a 3.2MB download.

What I request though, if you have been testing Daedalus in a container, to firstly delete it. You can do that by clicking the desktop "setup" icon, choose "EasyOS" tab, then "Easy Containers" button, then you can see how it can be deleted.

After updating to 6.4.5, click on desktop "pkg" icon, then "SFSget" and click on "easyos/devuan/daedalus" and install 'daedalus_6.4.5_amd64.sfs'

Alternatively, you can directly download 'daedalus_6.4.5_amd64.sfs', 'daedalus_6.4.5_amd64.specs' and 'daedalus.png' from here:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/packages/sfs/easyos/devuan/daedalus/

...download them to /mnt/wkg/sfs/easyos/devuan/daedalus, then run SFSget to install.

My request is to "kick the tyres" of Daedalus running in a container. Install some apps from the Devuan Daedalus (Debian Bookworm) repository, let me know of any issues. Video, sound, language issues, let me know.

Newcomers, the full 'easy_6.4.5_amd64.img' drive-image file is here:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/6.4.5/deltas/

Fast mirror in Europe, courtesy of NLUUG:

https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/6.4.5/

...there is also a help file, in case you are unfamiliar how to write a .img file to a usb-stick, or how to install it directly to internal drive.

Feedback welcome here:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=136571#p136571

For anyone interested in the technical details, here are the latest github commits:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commits/1649ad1b5dd6d9d580127acaad1db12635e59e69/

Have fun!     

Tags: easy