EasyOS Kirkstone-series maintenance release 5.9

The previous release was 5.8.5:

• EasyOS Kirkstone-series maintenance release 5.8.5 — December 01, 2024

Version 5.9 is another maintenance release, sync'ing with the infrastructure of the latest Scarthgap and Daedalus-series releases. Not recommended for new users of EasyOS, but if have Kirkstone-series installed, can update.

Note, there was one user report that Kirkstone-series video works on his hardware, not the later series, in which case a reason to stay with Kirkstone.

The kernel bumped to 5.15.169. Currently not possible to use a later 5.15.x kernel, as the aufs patch doesn't work. At time of writing latest 5.15.x is 5.15.175.

Firefox bumped to 137.0.2. Note that the menu has "Update to latest Firefox" entry, so you can upate to the latest whenever you wish.

Download:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2025/5.9/

Recent github commits:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commits/db959157a719cca063be06790f5988cd3b80eac6/

New users are recommended to download the Daedalus-series, currently at version 6.6.5.

Forum feedback welcome here:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=147176#p147176   

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