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Rox Customise Menu entry removed

December 03, 2023 — BarryK

The problem is discussed here:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=105008#p105008

I have solved the problem by removing "Customise Menu..." entry from the right-click menu. Commit:

https://github.com/bkauler/oe-qky-kirkstone/commit/950738c3dfe609da827a31f4928b49676da450c6  

Tags: easy

Fix abort loading NVIDIA SFS in initrd

December 03, 2023 — BarryK

This mechanism was posted about in this blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202311/abort-load-nvidia-sfs-if-gpu-missing.html

This is in Easy 5.6.4; however, it doesn't work. All NVIDIA SFSs get rejected. The test should be:

lspci | grep -qF 'Class 0300: 10de:'

The fix is in this commit:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/0aefc2bade7cc88419c2e082db50db4be0a52e90

Now, with the next release of Easy, the NVIDIA SFS will not load if there is no NVIDIA GPU detected, otherwise will load. This is for booting a USB flash stick on different computers.   

Tags: easy

usr-merge fix for kirkstone container

December 03, 2023 — BarryK

On my Lenovo desktop PC, I have been updating the EasyOS installation from before the change to usr-merge folder hierarchy.

Running Easy after having updated to 5.6.4, clicked on the "kirkstone" icon and got the desktop in a container, except a couple of broken icons and the wallaper didn't display.

One problem was /mnt/wkg/containers/kirkstone/.session/usr/sbin was an actual folder, created from before usr-merge. The 'globicons' file had a path "/usr/sbin" whereas it should now be "/usr/bin". These issues are now fixed, see commit:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/0aefc2bade7cc88419c2e082db50db4be0a52e90

So, after 5.6.5 is released, you will click on "kirkstone" and get a correct desktop.    

Tags: easy

Global IP TV Panel 2023MK6

December 02, 2023 — BarryK

I have updated ETP's streaming TV PET, to 2023MK6. See forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=689  

Tags: easy

EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.6.4 released

November 27, 2023 — BarryK

Another one! They are coming out fast; version 5.6.3 was released only 10 days ago:

https://bkhome.org/news/202311/easyos-kirkstone-series-version-563-released.html

Here are the release notes for 5.6.4:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.6.4/release-notes.htm

Extracting the highlights:

Download the drive-image file, courtesy of ibiblio:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.6.4/

A fast mirror if you live in Europe, courtesy of NLUUG:

https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.6.4/

If you don't know what to do with a drive-image file, this page explains how to write it to a USB flash-drive:

https://easyos.org/install/how-to-write-easyos-to-a-flash-drive.html

Or, if you want to install direct to an internal hard drive:

https://easyos.org/install/easy-frugal-installation.html

Of course, if you already have EasyOS running, just click on the "update" icon on the desktop. Updating from 5.6.3 is only a 1.5MB download.

Feedback is welcome at the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=104456#p104456

For anyone interested in the technical side of things, here are the recent github commits:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commits/f51c356ce8a8d6c42d1360545b8fe9af0d4d60f1

Have fun!      

Tags: easy

NVIDIA SFS filtering fixed in SFSget

November 26, 2023 — BarryK

I have posted recently about NVIDIA SFS:

https://bkhome.org/news/202311/abort-load-nvidia-sfs-if-gpu-missing.html

SFSget, the SFS manager, lists NVIDIA SFS files that can be downloaded and installed. Running Easy 5.6.4RC, SFSget listed nvidia_5.15.137-*.sfs as well as nvidia_5.15.138-*.sfs. The kernel is 5.15.138, so only the latter should be listed.

I have fixed that filtering. Commit:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/e836127665f1e706e3a688ff0b1198fa32e744fd   

Tags: easy

Chromium hardware acceleration disabled

November 26, 2023 — BarryK

On one of my laptops, Chromium freezes for several seconds at startup, due to GPU hardware acceleration being enabled. Firefox GPU acceleration is awful; however, Chromium GPU acceleration is OK on a most of my computers, just this one laptop is a problem.

I have changed the default to hardware acceleration disabled. This will be for a new installation of Easy; if you update to Easy 5.6.4, then you will have to go into "Settings" to manually disable it, that's if you want to.

Here are the commits:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/a99c8a8dfb080b3f6e568f652ae27b8230294561

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/829931953052f850df49e330d0dd9715838ccc5a    

Tags: easy

Set Chromium default startup page

November 26, 2023 — BarryK

Back when Firefox was builtin to Easy, it would start with the "EasyOS jumping off page", which is at /usr/share/doc/home.htm

I have now set Chromium to be the same:

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...this default only applies to new installs of EasyOS 5.6.4. Updates will have to go into the Chromium "Settings" to change the default page.

If "chromium" is run in a terminal, there is a message

# chromium
Unable to revert mtime: /usr/share/fonts/Type1
[12515:12515:1126/102634.405729:ERROR:policy_logger.cc(154)] :components/enterprise/browser/controller/chrome_browser_cloud_management_controller.cc(163) \
   Cloud management controller initialization aborted as CBCM is not enabled.

...now starting chromium with "--enable-chrome-browser-cloud-management=no", which avoids that message about "CBCM is not enabled".

Here are the github commits:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/5e53af47a1de69cd4436ab9118f03410b0064fe2

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/a59668962de05b80421d7d3449348ea0e9089215   

Tags: easy