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Another bug fix for Easy Installer

October 09, 2026 — BarryK

Caramel posted a fix that was implemented in Easy 7.4.11:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=17502

However, there is still another problem. Caramel reported that /usr/local/easy_install/support/partition_unallocated reformats boot and working-partition, even if they already have vfat and ext4 filesystems.

I'm straining my brain to recall how it all hangs together; however, have implemented questions in the script, do you really want to wipe existing filesystem. I think that should do the trick, and not cause confusion. The changes are marked by "#20261009".   

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Fix support Apple filesystems

October 09, 2026 — BarryK

Reported implemented support here:

But it didn't quite work, I overlooked one patch. Now fixed, see forum thread:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=17258

retiredt00 tested with that fix to probepart script, it works.   

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EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.4.11

October 07, 2026 — BarryK

A few essential fixes since Easy 7.4.10:

There was a killer bug in Easy Installer, that Caramel found:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=177682#p177682

The Installer is still alpha-quality, I do hope to get onto testing it soon.

Download:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/excalibur/2026/7.4.11/

Feedback welcome at the forum.

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=177014#p177014

Have fun!  

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Search for fuzzy translations

October 02, 2026 — BarryK

In EasyOS, language translations may be found as ".mo" files, in path /usr/share/locale

It is possible that these mo files may contain translations that are incorrect for some reason, and are marked as "fuzzy". Forum member don570 has created a script to find fuzzy translations:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=14468

I have incorporated this into EasyOS, builtin.

don570 has warned that searching for "fuzzy" may be misleading, as it may be an actual genuine word in the .po/.mo file. An example is the Gimp paint application.   

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Support Apple filesystems

September 23, 2026 — BarryK

Forum member retiredt00 posted about this:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=17258

OK, implemented. I edited these files:

/usr/sbin/pmount
/usr/local/pup_event/frontend_startup
/usr/local/pup_event/frontend_change
/usr/local/pup_event/frontend_funcs
/usr/local/bin/drive_all

That's good!    

Tags: easy

Chromium 153 displays capital U as lowercase u

September 23, 2026 — BarryK

Reported here and also see ongoing discussion:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=177159#p177159

We are experiencing one Chromium bug after another. We figure out a workaround, then get hit with another.

See recent posts:

I have been asking Google lots of questions, so far no fix.

EDIT:
Fixed, see forum post:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=177259#p177259

We have to revert to XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS unset in /etc/profile

But now we are back to pavucontrol causing chromium to crash.    

Tags: easy

EasyOS version 7.4.90 maybe 7.5RC

September 20, 2026 — BarryK

As reported in previous post, kernel 7.2.6 and built with excalibur-backports packages:

https://bkhome.org/news/202609/easyos-with-excalibur-backports-and-726-kernel.html

Anyone interested in testing it?

Is this kernel OK on old PCs? With all of those backports, do all the apps and utilities still run OK?

If this new version ticks all the boxes, I don't see why not make it a Release Candidate for Easy 7.5.

Download from here:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/test/

I haven't made it available as an update from Easy 7.4.10, as decided to be cautious. Maybe just do a standalone new install of 7.4.90, then test as much as possible. An EASYCLONE file could probably be used, in fact, I'm going to do that next.

There could be an update of 7.4.10 or earlier, just extract the three files out of the7.4.90 .img file.

I'll start a new forum thread.

Ha ha, those of you who have been following my posts for awhile will know I'm currently doing the "nomad" thing, living in caravan parks and campgrounds. Where I'm currently staying, there is free Starlink wifi, but very slow upload. The easy-7.4.90-amd64.img file, at 1.1GB, took about 5 hours to upload! Might be a good idea to check the md5sum after download.   

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EasyOS with Excalibur-backports and 7.2.6 kernel

September 20, 2026 — BarryK

One of the EasyOS testers reported a missing ethernet driver, that is available in the 7.1 kernel. So, I felt motivated to build Easy with a later kernel; Easy 7.4.x currently has the 6.12.x kernel.

Then thought also, why not also build with the Trixie/Escalibur "backports" package repository. Running it right now. Here are the backports packages that were brought into the build:

alsa-ucm-conf                   1.2.16.1-1~bpo13+1
at-spi2-common                  2.61.90-1~bpo13+1
btrfs-progs                     7.1-1~bpo13+1
curl                            8.21.0-2~bpo13+1
dhcpcd-base                     1:10.5.2-1~bpo13+1
firmware-intel-graphics         20260810-1~bpo13+1
firmware-intel-sound            20260810-1~bpo13+1
fonts-opensymbol                4:102.12+LibO26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
gir1.2-atk-1.0                  2.61.90-1~bpo13+1
libasound2-data                 1.2.16.1-1~bpo13+1
libasound2t64                   1.2.16.1-1~bpo13+1
libatk-bridge2.0-0t64           2.61.90-1~bpo13+1
libatk1.0-0t64                  2.61.90-1~bpo13+1
libatopology2t64                1.2.16.1-1~bpo13+1
libatspi2.0-0t64                2.61.90-1~bpo13+1
libcurl3t64-gnutls              8.21.0-2~bpo13+1
libcurl4-gnutls                 8.21.0-2~bpo13+1
libcurl4t64                     8.21.0-2~bpo13+1
libdw1t64                       0.196-1~bpo13+2
libefiboot1t64                  39-2~bpo13+1
libefivar1t64                   39-2~bpo13+1
libegl-mesa0                    26.1.2-1~bpo13+1
libelf1t64                      0.196-1~bpo13+2
libgbm1                         26.1.2-1~bpo13+1
libgl1-mesa-dri                 26.1.2-1~bpo13+1
libglx-mesa0                    26.1.2-1~bpo13+1
libldb2                         2:2.11.0+samba4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
libnghttp3-9                    1.15.0-1~bpo13+1
libngtcp2-16                    1.22.1-1~bpo13+1
libngtcp2-crypto-gnutls8        1.22.1-1~bpo13+1
libngtcp2-crypto-ossl0          1.22.1-1~bpo13+1
liborcus-0.21-0                 0.21.0-4~bpo13+1
liborcus-parser-0.21-0          0.21.0-4~bpo13+1
libpipewire-0.3-0t64            1.4.9-1~bpo13+2
libreoffice-base-core           4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-base-drivers        4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-base                4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-calc                4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-common              4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-core                4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-draw                4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-gtk3                4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-impress             4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-l10n-de             4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-l10n-en-gb          4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-l10n-es             4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-l10n-fr             4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-l10n-pt             4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-l10n-ru             4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-l10n-tr             4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-l10n-zh-cn          4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-math                4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-report-builder-bin  4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-style-colibre       4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-uiconfig-base       4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-uiconfig-calc       4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-uiconfig-common     4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-uiconfig-draw       4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-uiconfig-impress    4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-uiconfig-math       4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-uiconfig-writer     4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libreoffice-writer              4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libsmbclient0                   2:4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
libspa-0.2-modules              1.4.9-1~bpo13+2
libtalloc2                      2:2.4.4+samba4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
libtdb1                         2:1.4.15+samba4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
libtevent0t64                   2:0.17.1+samba4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
libuno-cppu3t64                 4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3t64      4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3t64   4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libuno-sal3t64                  4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libuno-salhelpergcc3-3t64       4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
libwbclient0                    2:4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
libxkbcommon-x11-0              1.13.1-1~bpo13+1
libxkbcommon0                   1.13.1-1~bpo13+1
mesa-libgallium                 26.1.2-1~bpo13+1
openssh-client                  1:10.3p1-1~bpo13+1
openssh-server                  1:10.3p1-1~bpo13+1
openssh-sftp-server             1:10.3p1-1~bpo13+1
python3-ldb                     2:2.11.0+samba4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
python3-samba                   2:4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
python3-talloc                  2:2.4.4+samba4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
python3-tdb                     2:1.4.15+samba4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
python3-uno                     4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
samba-common-bin                2:4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
samba-common                    2:4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
samba-libs                      2:4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
samba                           2:4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
smbclient                       2:4.24.7+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
transmission-common             4.1.3+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
transmission-gtk                4.1.3+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
uno-libs-private                4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1
ure                             4:26.8.0.3-2~bpo13+1

...that "bpo13" identifies the package as a backport to Debian 13.

Have found a couple of things to fix, will build it again, then upload for anyone curious to try it.   

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