Desktop update icon now updates devx sfs

The desktop "update" icon will download the latest EasyOS and update to the latest 'vmlinuz', 'initrd' and 'easy.sfs' file. It will download a .delta difference-file, which is a small download, instead of having to download the entire .img drive-image file ...which is now over 1GB.

What has been left out of the picture is the devx .sfs file. If you have, for example, run the new "devx" container, it will have downloade the devx_<version>_amd64.sfs file, and loaded that as a layer in the devx container. That is about 500MB download, also rather big.

So, now the devx sfs is included in the update mechanism, and there are .delta files online.

The main update script is /ust/local/easy_version/easy-update, and there is now also 'easy-update-devx', that the former calls. It will only do so if detects that you already have a downloaded devx sfs, otherwise won't bother you, as many users are not interested in a devx sfs.   

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