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Posted: **Fri 09 Jun 2017, 14:36**

Easy 0.2 (cannot test 0.3, it doesnt go to the desktop)

- missing libraries :
In /usr/bin/
libnuma.so.1 => not found
libquadmath.so.0 => not found
liblavjpeg-2.1.so.0 => not found
liblavfile-2.1.so.0 => not found
liblavplay-2.1.so.0 => not found
libappindicator3.so.1 => not found
libgimp-2.0.so.0 => not found
libgimpbase-2.0.so.0 => not found

In /usr/sbin/
libx86.so.1 => not found
libpipeline.so.1 => not found

Posted: **Wed 14 Jun 2017, 15:29**

Hi Barry,

are you sure all those 100s of packages are really needed ? Maybe you can sort out "the not needed" and not include them anymore ? It will allow to have a lighter puppy and an easier work for compiling. Just a simple idea.

Cheers, linuxcbon

Posted: **Thu 15 Jun 2017, 11:20**

Quirky Pyro64 version 0.2 and Easy Linux 0.3 alpha work very well with 'FreeFileSync'.

See Barry's news: http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00565

a) Download FreeFileSync_9.1_Ubuntu_17.04_64-bit.tar.gz https://www.freefilesync.org/download/F ... bit.tar.gz
b) extract to the same folder: FreeFileSync, RealTimeSync, Resources.zip
c) click on FreeFileSync and you are good to go.

Posted: **Fri 23 Jun 2017, 11:20**

Well, major effort, but have imported about 140 packages into OpenEmbedded. It is now on github, for others to use, and provide input:

http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00576

So, should be able to get back to building Easy and Quirky!

I have just done a x86_64 Quirky build, and booted it on my laptop. Everything tested so far, works. There are lots more Xorg drivers, and when I do a i686 build in OE, this will be very good for older PCs.

Posted: **Thu 29 Jun 2017, 10:00**

Barry,
updated our translation tool momanager
see http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81259
to work also in Easy's full install (also working for en and its flavours).
Hope you like it.

Missing rcrsn51's peasyglue in Easy.

I have Easy installed on a 8 GiB USB stick.
I do like that I could simply add my boot code

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drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=edid/1920x1080.bin

to syslinux.cfg, both of them in / and under EFI.

Resolution changer does not really change anything for me....
With Fatdog or slacko64 it does

Posted: **Thu 29 Jun 2017, 17:55**

I tried the frugal install, changed BOOT_SPECS' for /dev/sda2
BOOT_PARTNUM=2
BOOT_FS='ext2'
WKG_PARTNUM=2
WKG_FS='ext2'
etc.
it booted kernel and sfs OK, went to command line but didnt start xwin. Something wrong with chroot , I dont know what went wrong.

Posted: **Thu 29 Jun 2017, 23:05**

Just 1 little problem with installing 0.3 alpha on a 4GB usb sd card, using puppy linux; on reboot after the "dd" had finished, my uefi hung. I had to remove the easy linux usb sd card from the machine before it would boot at all.
After booting back into my normal work puppy, I reinserted the sd card and ran gparted against it. It complained, so I clicked on the "fix" button. (I created the ext4 partition while I was there).
On reboot after that, a uefi boot of the sd card gave me Easy Linux 0.3.
I suspect the issue was the missing backup partition table on the end of the sd card.
Interestingly, a normal mbr boot of the sd card failed, in that it went to my normal grub4dos boot, not Easy Linux.

gyro

Posted: **Sun 13 Aug 2017, 21:48**

I keep finding scripts that have unnecessary sleep commands in while loops... leading to long boot times. for future reference, the while command only checks the last of a compound list of commands (separated by newlines or semicolons)... almost all boot scripts contain at least 1 culprit (including easy)
here's a demo of how to make the sleep conditional:

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x=0
Foo=""
Bar=""
while 
  [ "$Foo" ] || Foo=$(get_foo)
  [ "$Bar" ] || Bar=$(get_bar)
  [ ! "$Foo" || ! "$Bar && $x < 9 ]
do
  x = $((x+1))
  sleep 1
done

basically just move everything in the while loop to before the condition with exception of the sleep and optionally the count

Posted: **Sat 19 Aug 2017, 21:32**

I can setup wifi with SNS, as in all puppies.
To setup wifi connection at bootup I put/link rc.network in the Startup direcory. That normally works, but not in easy 0.3 (nor in Quirky Xerus).
Even worse: in SNS the first offer to use the profile wlan0 (connect now) does not work. So I have to go through the setup of the interface again.

Is the profile not persistent? Or does it only look that way?
Running SNS verbose in console shows an error about 10 lines before exit:

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ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132

Posted: **Mon 21 Aug 2017, 01:52**

Travelling; forgot my trusty Q-Slaq, and downloaded Easy.03 to give it a spin.
So far, I have not had a good experience. Mostly a lot of lag between switching application when multiple apps are open, Seamonly and Firefox, both stutter a lot.

I will keep testing in a couple of other boxes...

g

Posted: **Fri 25 Aug 2017, 10:36**

foxpup wrote:I can setup wifi with SNS, as in all puppies.
To setup wifi connection at bootup I put/link rc.network in the Startup direcory. That normally works, but not in easy 0.3 (nor in Quirky Xerus).
Even worse: in SNS the first offer to use the profile wlan0 (connect now) does not work. So I have to go through the setup of the interface again.

Is the profile not persistent? Or does it only look that way?
Running SNS verbose in console shows an error about 10 lines before exit:
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ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132

I also experienced that, and then the problem just "went away".

I suspect it might have gone away after I selected the "CRD" in quicksetup. If you run quicksetup (Setup menu), you will see the CRD listbox. Choose your country, and see if that fixes it.

Posted: **Fri 25 Aug 2017, 10:38**

Advance notice:

I think maybe Monday or Tuesday, will upload Easy 0.4, still classified as pre-alpha.

0.4 will be built from Ubuntu DEBs, 16.04.3.

Posted: **Mon 28 Aug 2017, 01:12**

Easy version 0.4 is uploaded, still classified as pre-alpha.

Download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/ ... xerus/0.4/

Unresolved issues:

That problem reported earlier, about SNS not automatically connecting at bootup.

The desktop icons layout has changed, and you will notice two of them have symlink symbols. Need to remove those.

The is now "apps" icon on desktop, launches PupApps, but this is not configured for the apps in Easy, such as Libreoffice.

The container mechanism needs more work. I did fix some bugs since 0.3, however, want to rethink some of it, such as improving startup time. Also, the security parts of it need a lot of work.

New features:

Another new desktop icon "sgsget", you can use this to download the "devx" sfs.

Unlike previous Easy 0.3, this one is built from Ubuntu Xenial Xerus 16.04.3 DEBs.

The build includes the markdown plugin, and some other plugins, for Geany text editor.

Installation:

USB flash drive image only. There is documentation on how to write it to a flash drive:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... nstall.htm

Frugal installation is documented here:
http://barryk.org/easy/easy-frugal-install.htm

Docs:
To get some idea what Easy OS is all about:
http://barryk.org/easy/how-easy-works.htm

...due to be updated soon.

Posted: **Mon 28 Aug 2017, 11:00**

Sadly

no success with frugal install on my desktop pc with nvidia graphics....

Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASRock model: N68C-S UCC
BIOS: American Megatrends v: P1.60 date: 09/19/2011
CPU: Dual core AMD Athlon II X2 260 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB
flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm) bmips: 12857
clock speeds: min/max: 800/3200 MHz 1: 1900 MHz 2: 1900 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a]
bus-ID: 00:0d.0 chip-ID: 10de:03d6

EasyOs-0.4 boots and desktop appears for a brief period closely followed by a black screen and removal of signal to screen. Is there an equivalent boot switch of PFIX=nox??

Suggestion to make frugal installs easier....use concatenated commands in the help so they can be directly copied into the terminal - e.g.

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mkdir -p mntpt && mount-FULL -t vfat -o loop,offset=1048576 easy-0.4-amd64.img mntpt

umount-FULL mntpt && rmdir mntpt

mkdir -p initrd-tree && cd initrd-tree && cat ../initrd.q | cpio -i -d -m && cd ..

sync && rm initrd.q && cd initrd-tree && find . | cpio -o -H newc > ../initrd.q && sync && cd ..

- NOTE I had to use mount-FULL and umount-FULL (and umount is missing from help?)

Posted: **Mon 28 Aug 2017, 11:42**

peebee wrote:Sadly no success with frugal install on my desktop pc with nvidia graphics....
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASRock model: N68C-S UCC
BIOS: American Megatrends v: P1.60 date: 09/19/2011
CPU: Dual core AMD Athlon II X2 260 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB
flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm) bmips: 12857
clock speeds: min/max: 800/3200 MHz 1: 1900 MHz 2: 1900 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a]
bus-ID: 00:0d.0 chip-ID: 10de:03d6
EasyOs-0.4 boots and desktop appears for a brief period closely followed by a black screen and removal of signal to screen. Is there an equivalent boot switch of PFIX=nox??

Suggestion to make frugal installs easier....use concatenated commands in the help so they can be directly copied into the terminal - e.g.
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mkdir -p mntpt && mount-FULL -t vfat -o loop,offset=1048576 easy-0.4-amd64.img mntpt

umount-FULL mntpt && rmdir mntpt

mkdir -p initrd-tree && cd initrd-tree && cat ../initrd.q | cpio -i -d -m && cd ..

sync && rm initrd.q && cd initrd-tree && find . | cpio -o -H newc > ../initrd.q && sync && cd ..
- NOTE I had to use mount-FULL and umount-FULL (and umount is missing from help?)

If the image is written to a USB stick, at bootup there is a menu, and you can choose to boot without launching X.

Yeah, I have to revise those frugal install instructions.

if you are already running Easy, there is no problem, you just click on the .img file and it mounts.

But doing it the "hard" way, yeah, busybox 'mount' cannot handle the "offset" parameter.

Posted: **Mon 28 Aug 2017, 15:01**

Easy 0.4, nice pre-alpha.

Well it's obvious, but for me the install line to usb had to be edited
in the old instructions away from xerus to read:

#gunzip --stdout easy-0.4-amd64.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdc bs=1m

and went ok to a 16gig stick.

Just a couple of observations in addition to what Barry knows about.

Get Flash goes thru the motions of downloading, but then shows
a notice as refusing to install the files.
An external flash plugin seems irrelevant anyway as it is already
built in to SM v2.48, so the get flash facility can be removed.

The previously reported problem of pEqualizer sliders always
being at the bottom in the Flat position, is still there,
so nobody's looked at it yet.

As previously discussed, Menu Setup entry:
Check Dependencies installed pkg, is shown twice.

Regards.

Posted: **Mon 28 Aug 2017, 15:28**

Hi Barry,

Easy Linux 0.4 is looking nice. Instead of my normal "frugal-installing" everything, this time I dd the .gz image to a 8GB usb 2.0 microSD, and all went well. Still booted up fairly quickly, and upon 2nd reboot, conversion went smoothly as Easy built the sfs into a faster access format.

I've gotta read some more what you wrote on your site, but presently I am scratching my head trying to figure out the difference between seamonkey-running-as-spot and seamonkey-running-in-container. Interestingly, had my first inkling of the power of the container: it refused to let me import bookmarks from outside of the container. I had to directly place them in the container before seamonkey would even see them, let alone touch them.

Overall, though, good job.

Going to play with the container thing more (maybe adding Slimjet and/or Google Chrome too) and see if by compromising them through opening up webpages & embedded images I made on my internal-home-server that have a few browser attacks I created, I can get access to Easy overall. Hopefully, I won't be able to get out of the container for any of the browsers.

Posted: **Mon 28 Aug 2017, 21:34**

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gunzip --stdout easy-0.4-amd64.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdc bs=1m

didn't work

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gunzip --stdout easy-0.4-amd64.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdc bs=4m

did work to install on stick.
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Posted: **Mon 28 Aug 2017, 21:41**

I installed on 32 gb USB stick and booted to desktop.

Tested and works..
pclock
pschedule
pmusic
xine
wacom tablet
mypaint appimage --> download
https://transfer.sh/j03SC/MyPaint-1.3.0 ... 4.AppImage

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one flaw (see image)
There is no home folder

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cd /mnt/home

and Samba has been set up by default to use /mnt/home

so I had to make a change to a folder that exists
and add a user.

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smbpasswd -a root

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Posted: **Wed 30 Aug 2017, 00:41**

Observation when using mhwaveedit...

I hooked up a radio to line-IN of my computer (IBM thinkcentre)
I used retrovol to set capture levels.

But it didn't record the audio.

I went to mhwaveedit preferences and made two changes...

1) Instead of automatically selecting driver , I made it search for hw:0
using the preference option

2) The default format was 4 channel ??? NEVER saw that before!!
So I set it to 2 channel stereo 44.1k

Now it records properly.
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gimp image app works
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