EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.8 released

WITHDRAWN!
Unfortunately, some serious problems have emerged with using overlay filesystem. I will build 7.0.9 using aufs. Will try to figure out why overlay is going wrong. See forum discussion in link below.

If you are a newcomer to EasyOS, please read the 7.0 announcement, it has more details:

• EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0 released — August 15, 2025

Here are the highlights since 7.0.6:

• Fix for sudo-sh simple sudo replacement — September 07, 2025
• Detect inserted optical media fixed — September 06, 2025
• udev from systemd compiled with instructions from LFS — September 06, 2025
• Examining another hang at bootup — September 05, 2025
• Choose aufs or overlay on the kernel commandline — September 05, 2025
• Dropout to shell in initrd — September 04, 2025
• Overlayfs management in EasyOS — September 04, 2025
• Finding overlayfs whiteout files — September 04, 2025
• getfattr linked statically with musl — September 04, 2025
• Finally got overlay filesystem to work — September 02, 2025

Note that "Detect inserted optical media fixed", still isn't, needs something else for icon to appear on the desktop.

Download:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/excalibur/2025/7.0.8/

Feedback welcome at the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=156097#p156097

Have fun!   

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