EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.3.7

There was a 7.3.6 release, but it has a serious fault so got withdrawn and not announced on this blog. So, the previous release is 7.3.4, announced here:

• EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.3.4 released — May 22, 2026

Changes since 7.3.4:

• Decrease size of libllvm — May 29, 2026
• SMPlayer has replaced Celluloid — May 28, 2026
• Fix bug loading SFS at version update — May 27, 2026
• SOF fail trying again — May 25, 2026
• Trying Sound Open Firmware yet again — May 24, 2026
• PKGget bug fix — May 24, 2026
• Year-2028 fix for mkisofs in cdrtools — May 23, 2026
• Delete .a library files in devx SFS — May 23, 2026
• Xdialog GUI for shell scripts updated — May 22, 2026

If you are a newcomer to EasyOS, recommend read the 7.3 announcement for more details:

• EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.3 released — April 26, 2026

Download:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/excalibur/2026/7.3.7/

Feedback welcome at the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=171122#p171122

The change from Celluloid to SMPlayer caused the download .img file to grow. easy-7.3.6-amd64.img is 1113MiB. Mostly this was due to SMPlayer requiring the Qt5 libraries. However, I went through an exercise decreasing the size of the 'libllvm19' package, and Easy 7.3.7 .img file has dropped to 1089MiB. Ideally, it would be nice if it was no bigger than 999MiB, just because under 1000 seems much less. Like they will advertise a sale price of$9.99 instead of $10.     

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