EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.9 released

Version 7.0.8 was withdrawn almost immediately after uploading, due to issues discovered with overlay filesystem. For 7.0.9, have gone back to aufs.

Newcomers to EasyOS, please read the 7.0 announcement for more details:

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

Highlights since version 7.0.6:

• Fix for PC_HARDWARE_PROFILE — September 10, 2025
• 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

Download:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/excalibur/2025/7.0.9/

Feedback welcome at the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=156227#p156227   

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