EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.6.9 released

The previous release was 6.6.7:

• EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.6.7 — April 19, 2025

Since then, there has been a complete recompile of packages in Yocto/OpenEmbedded, package updates, quite a few fixes. Here are the relevant blog posts since 6.6.7:

• Chromium in container menu fix — May 27, 2025
• Initrd fixlayers .desktop multiple Exec lines — May 25, 2025
• Fix for run-in-terminal — May 25, 2025
• Fixed typos when calling popup utility — May 25, 2025
• PKGget translation fix — May 21, 2025
• Packages compiled in Yocto/OpenEmbedded 5.0.9 revision-5 — May 18, 2025
• New findmnt utility from util-linux — May 11, 2025
• XSR screen recorder — May 10, 2025
• Replace xmessage with gxmessage — May 10, 2025
• Remove .sh from TEXTDOMAIN — May 10, 2025
• yff video/audio/image converter 2.3 — May 10, 2025
• French translation updates — May 10, 2025
• German translation updates — May 09, 2025
• Fix Tor browser flatpak in Flapi — May 09, 2025
• Zarfy updated in Scarthgap and Daedalus — April 29, 2025
• Firefox 138.0.4
  

I haven't bumped the kernel; it is still version 6.6.75.

Download, courtesy of ibiblio.org:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2025/6.6.9/

Fast mirror in Europe, courtesy of NLUUG:

https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2025/6.6.9/

...for newcomers to EasyOS, who are unfamiliar with how to install a .img drive-image file, see the "readme" file.

Feedback is welcome on the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=149465#p149465   

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