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EasyOS YouTube Part-9

June 30, 2026 — BarryK

The previous video, Part-8, introduced Easy Containers. Part-9 explains a few extra details about Easy Containers. Also explains about running as the administrator (root) and "crippled root" in containers. Also shows how you can see what packages are in 'easy.sfs' and 'devx.sfs'. Also explains some tweaks for the webcam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jj-Nl204_g    

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EasyOS YouTube video Part-8 Easy Containers

June 30, 2026 — BarryK

Easy Containers is unique to EasyOS, needed to create a video showcasing it. Now done.

"EasyOS Part8 Easy Containers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQk8ftYQaeI

So much more that can make a video about... have to think what next.    

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EasySR screen recorder fix audio cutoff

June 27, 2026 — BarryK

Recording on-the-fly audio and video with ffmpeg, using x11grab, direct to an MP4 file, results in audio getting cutoff prematurely at the end.

There is a lot of online discussion about this, but I could not find anything to fix it. Except this page, that shows how it can be minimized:

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/11330

I have added "-preset ultrafast", which gets the cutoff audio to just under 1 second. That's OK, now that I know, will stop talking 1 second or more before ending the video.

Note, there is another little issue, was getting duplicate video resolution radiobuttons, fixed that too.   

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YouTube video Part-7 version update

June 27, 2026 — BarryK

This video shows how easy it is to update EasyOS to the latest version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVZIyH_CwBc

All of the videos in this EasyOS-series may be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/@barrykauler/videos    

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YouTube EasyOS-series Part-6 access phone

June 27, 2026 — BarryK

I created a short video showing how to access your Android phone from the EasyOS desktop:

"EasyOS Part6: Access android phone"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0f6YAmg1M

You must use a USB cable that is capable of data transfer, not a charging-only cable. Well, it won't work if you try with a charging-only cable.

I plan to show how to run "Droidcam", to use a phone as a webcam, in the next video.  

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EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.4.2

June 27, 2026 — BarryK

Newcomers to EasyOS, please read the 7.4 announcement, as it has more detailed information:

Changes since version 7.4.1:

Limine bootloader has been updated from 10.7.0. Unfortunately, we cannot bump to the 12.x version, due to a change in I/O handling that renders our ext4 patch invalid. See here. To jump to 12.x, we will have to drop support for ext2/3/4, which will require 'vmlinuz' and 'initrd' to be in a vfat partition. Very reluctant to do that.

Download:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/excalibur/2026/7.4.2/

Newcomers will also find the new YouTube videos helpful with getting started:

https://www.youtube.com/@barrykauler/videos

Feedback welcome at the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=172954#p172954

Have fun!    

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Limine version 12.3.3 panic

June 26, 2026 — BarryK

I posted yesterday about compiling the latest Limine bootloader

Built EasyOS with it, what was to be version 7.4.2; however, got a Limine panic loading 'vmlinuz'.

Have reported it to the developer mintsuki:

https://github.com/Limine-Bootloader/Limine/issues/602    

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Xlibre xserver segfaults

June 25, 2026 — BarryK

I posted earlier today about recompiling Xlibre:

Alfons sent me the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log, testing on a computer with nvidia gpu. The xserver segfaults.

I had a look at the project "Issues" on github.com, and unfortunately there are a lot of reports of the server crashing:

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues

I posted the Xorg.0.log from Alfons here:

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues/3144

Unfortunately, Xlibre is too unstable. The next release of Easy will be built with the normal Xorg packages. Unless the Xlibre developers come back with a fix.    

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