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The experimental Linux distribution EasyOS has reached version 7.0, which is a major redesign based on the new woofQ2 build system. The underlying package management is now APT, with PKGget GUI wrapper that is still a chameleon able to install many package types. The current minor version bump is 7.0.5
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Compared with prior releases of EasyOS, the 7.0 Excalibur-series is a "whole new ball game". All prior EasyOSs were built with woofQ; Easy Excalibur is built with woofQ2, that is a redesign of woofQ based on Debian's APT underpinning all package management. Easy has PKGget, a package manager GUI, that is able to install all kinds of packages, such as .deb, .txz, .rpm and .pet; that chameleon-like ability is retained, but now PKGget is a wrapper on top of APT. So now PKGget and APT talk to each other, and even if utilities such as 'apt' and 'apt-get' are used in a terminal, it will automatically sync in PKGget.
Easy Excalibur is built with Devuan Excalibur packages, equivalent to Debian 13 Trixie, but without systemd. Instead, EasyOS uses the simple busybox init, enhanced with pup_event service management.
EasyOS has inbuilt containers support, known as "Easy Containers" and this is taken to the next level. In particular, there is now a pre-created container named "devx" that has everything for a compiler/development environment. Like all Easy Containers, "devx" runs just by clicking a desktop icon, and the user can flip between any of them with single clicks.
Easy Excalibur is big, the download is around 1GB; and it takes EasyOS's habit of "including the kitchen sink" to the next level. Not just the Chromium browser, also the SeaMonkey browser suite is included, builtin. And of course all the usual guys, such as Celluloid, Inkscape, Gimp, GParted, SolveSpace, LibreOffice, HomeBank, StreamTuner2 and Audacious. For the first time, SpaceFM is included, for those who must have a two-pane filemanager. Full Story |
