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by scsijon
Fri Jun 10, 2022 10:38 pm
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS without Samba
Replies: 20
Views: 2064

EasyOS without Samba

Ref: https://bkhome.org/news/202206/samba-to-be-removed.html You asked for comments. As someone with a network that shares some storage drives, I do use it at times such as a full backup. But not on my Internet workstation. Surely if it was a .sfs that could be loaded when needed, or an installable ...
by scsijon
Wed Jun 08, 2022 11:09 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS Dunfell 4.0 coming ...eventually
Replies: 10
Views: 793

Re: EasyOS Dunfell 4.0 coming ...eventually

?do you have aldi mobile over there, they have a 365gb 365days data only plan for $365, info on
https://www.whistleout.com.au/Broadband ... ile/Mobile
i've used it a time or two when i've needed it.

by scsijon
Mon Jun 06, 2022 6:41 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: Thinking about the logo
Replies: 123
Views: 14499

Re: Thinking about the logo

Sorry, but: Part of the problem using boxes is if it looks something like someone's Copyrighted design you could be in trouble. I had a quick look at Australias list and there are hundreds, and I hadn't looked overseas to start there. There are even some relating to software packages, especially pac...
by scsijon
Wed May 25, 2022 12:33 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: the elephant in the room?
Replies: 18
Views: 2737

the elephant in the room?

https://bkhome.org/news/202205/a-rethink-of-easyos-architecture.html https://bkhome.org/news/202205/fix-detect-hdds-and-thinking-about-the-elephant-in-the-room.html I wonder if you should really be considering this as an elephant or a mouse, a nusance you's like to get rid off, but a uncompfortable ...
by scsijon
Tue May 24, 2022 3:03 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: let's laugh a little - another EASYOS? : surprise...
Replies: 4
Views: 749

Re: let's laugh a little - another EASYOS? : surprise...

And another two EasyOS at https://www.onworks.net/software/windows/app-easyos , This is a Windows app named easyOS whose latest release can be downloaded as easyOSv1.msi. It can be run online in the free hosting provider OnWorks for workstations. and https://github.com/sunlggggg/easyos although this...
by scsijon
Mon May 23, 2022 10:43 pm
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: let's laugh a little - another EASYOS? : surprise...
Replies: 4
Views: 749

Re: let's laugh a little - another EASYOS? : surprise...

Ah, looking at the site, it's the origonals from which the Sugar desktop came from. I'm not sure whether it was their staff that wanted to keep the desktop going or someone just forked it off when notice of it's demise came about. That fills in some details of Sugar's source that I couldn't track, I...
by scsijon
Sun May 22, 2022 3:49 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: Easy Bookworm version 0.3 released
Replies: 3
Views: 963

Re: Easy Bookworm version 0.3 released

sorry, doesn't work for me with 2 screens turned on or not. 0.1 did work, so something has gone wrong somewhere I fear. Problems so far:- 1- whether in X or not, sets both screens to smallest global font size, resets them back to these even when I change them; 2- the same with screen matrix, notepad...
by scsijon
Sun May 15, 2022 3:58 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: Introducing Easy Bookworm (version 0.1)
Replies: 35
Views: 4771

Re: Introducing Easy Bookworm (version 0.1)

It's actually interesting that Debian decided to go/continue the name bookworm as there is actually a multi-format E-book reader with that name at https://babluboy.github.io/bookworm/

by scsijon
Sat May 14, 2022 5:18 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: Introducing Easy Bookworm (version 0.1)
Replies: 35
Views: 4771

Re: Introducing Easy Bookworm (version 0.1)

OK, FIrst goes, last night, was a bad dump with multiple setup problems with a new kingston datatraveler 128GB. I blew it away tried again using the same stick and ended with the same problems so I started again with a second new memory stick of the same type with the same results. I tried with bust...
by scsijon
Thu May 12, 2022 12:27 pm
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: OE building with recipetool [closed]
Replies: 2
Views: 951

Re: OE building with recipetool

thanks, i'll play safe for now then.

by scsijon
Thu May 12, 2022 12:26 pm
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS .img file now not compressed
Replies: 2
Views: 563

EasyOS .img file now not compressed

https://bkhome.org/news/202205/easyos-img-file-now-not-compressed.html for those wanting top follow this. Just wondering, since your considering not compressing easyos, whether you would also consider limiting the expansion of the ext4 partition during resize, especially as the memory stick sizes ar...
by scsijon
Wed May 04, 2022 5:48 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: OE building with recipetool [closed]
Replies: 2
Views: 951

OE building with recipetool [closed]

Before I attempt to build a couple of packages I need and can't find any recipes anywhere for, can i ask for any hints or comments you have relating to OE's recipetool please, or are you using some other way.
thanks

by scsijon
Sat Apr 30, 2022 7:58 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS 3.4.5 released
Replies: 19
Views: 3151

Re: EasyOS 3.4.5 released

Shouldn't an "*.eml" file be opened in an default email client as @scsijon subtly suggests? Curious if that would be appropriate? No, that's where it's runs, but if you only want to see what's in there, such as if your not sure if it's been 'played' with or ensuring bad code is not there,...
by scsijon
Sat Apr 30, 2022 7:54 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: BK is on 12 april 2022 at techrights.org
Replies: 1
Views: 1550

BK is on 12 april 2022 at techrights.org

http://techrights.org/category/news-rou ... esInternet is the link

scroll down to distributions and he has four out of the 5 Items there

congradulations, as it's a hard one to get one, let alone 4.

by scsijon
Thu Apr 14, 2022 11:47 pm
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS 3.4.5 released
Replies: 19
Views: 3151

Re: EasyOS 3.4.5 released

An EML file is an email message saved by an email application, such as Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail. It contains the content of the message, along with the subject, sender, recipient(s), and date of the message. EML files may also store one or more email attachments, which are files sent with the...
by scsijon
Fri Apr 08, 2022 6:18 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS version 3.4.3 released
Replies: 20
Views: 2142

Re: EasyOS version 3.4.3 released

Built a fresh memory stick, all ok rebooted it on the workstation and all was ok however I moved the stick to one of my legacy boxes, and it fails, not even from powerdown works. @scsijon , On that legacy box, does it start to boot, and get to the "switch_root"? If so, what GPU does it ha...
by scsijon
Fri Apr 08, 2022 6:07 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS 3.4.5 released
Replies: 19
Views: 3151

Re: EasyOS 3.4.5 released

Re:menus on desktop or not? I wonder if it would be possible to have them appear in one window only, leaving the others blank. Such as only the last has them all, then you could quickswitch across to find and use one without the need to go through menus for finding one particular app only ocassional...
by scsijon
Sun Mar 20, 2022 10:25 pm
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS version 3.4.3 released
Replies: 20
Views: 2142

Re: EasyOS version 3.4.3 released

Built a fresh memory stick, all ok
rebooted it on the workstation and all was ok
however I moved the stick to one of my legacy boxes, and it fails, not even from powerdown works.

by scsijon
Thu Feb 24, 2022 3:15 am
Forum: System
Topic: libexpat / expat has been found VUNERABLE
Replies: 0
Views: 721

libexpat / expat has been found VUNERABLE

Anyone using a puppy / easyos / quirky /? that has a version of expat from version 2.0.1 prior to version 2.4.6 needs to update urgently! There are security issues involved with all versions. I know this will cause problems for package managers and builders, but the problem is serious and all need t...
by scsijon
Thu Feb 10, 2022 1:17 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: Icon free Desktops
Replies: 1
Views: 320

Icon free Desktops

Thinking about it for a while, after reading Barry's wiki column on the subject. Actually i'd rather have all Applications are to have a icon on the first (primary) Virtual Desktop as well as being accessable via the menu. Having the ability to delete the individual icon on that primary virtal deskt...
by scsijon
Tue Feb 08, 2022 4:17 am
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: IMPORTANT: eudev deprecation 2021-08-20 - CANCELLED
Replies: 2
Views: 1544

Re: IMPORTANT: eudev deprecation 2021-08-20 - CANCELLED

Just an update on what eventually happened. https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/ On 2021-08-20 Gentoo decided to abandon eudev and a new project was established on 2021-09-14 by Alpine, Devuan and Gentoo contributors (alphabetical order). The new release is 3.2.11, there are still 20 open issues,...
by scsijon
Thu Feb 03, 2022 6:49 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS version 3.3 released
Replies: 12
Views: 1537

Re: EasyOS version 3.3 released

since your going to include a video editor, what about including DVDStyler (https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdstyler/) for professional (fancy) dvds to manage your works.

by scsijon
Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:53 pm
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS version 3.2.1 released
Replies: 25
Views: 2549

Re: EasyOS version 3.2.1 released

I would have thought barryk would have still had it setup to show in the PPM and uninstall via that.

by scsijon
Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:50 pm
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS Basic POC Packageset list?
Replies: 2
Views: 333

Re: EasyOS Basic POC Packageset list?

OK, thanks for the quick response. I'll have a go at creating one and building a normal EasyOS Dunfell from that before going further. Currently creating a minimal DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS-oe-dunfell. Just to give an idea of what i'm playing with. The first distribution i'm looking at is venom. Currently, ...
by scsijon
Sun Jan 23, 2022 5:57 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS Basic POC Packageset list?
Replies: 2
Views: 333

EasyOS Basic POC Packageset list?

I was wondering what you would consider to be the basic minimal packageset required to build an EasyOS. I don't mean a full set with all the applications, but a minimal set of packages for something like a proof-of-concept to see if other linux 'bases' would be suitable for EasyOS. I've had a look i...
by scsijon
Sun Jan 23, 2022 5:49 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS version 3.2.1 released
Replies: 25
Views: 2549

Re: EasyOS version 3.2.1 released

nevamaor, ther was a note referance on what to do about this before you upgraded on barry's easyos page. Hmm, only note I see is uninstall firefox before upgrading. Does that somehow retain the profile whereas not uninstalling it doesn't? Yup, it leaves your private stuff there and just removes the...
by scsijon
Tue Jan 18, 2022 2:13 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS version 3.2.1 released
Replies: 25
Views: 2549

Re: EasyOS version 3.2.1 released

Got a problem when my system 'died' die to a local mains power failure, sequence was found as> > mains unxpectedly shut down >on restart the computer did it's 'thing' and cleaned itself up and restarted; > it dropped out to the prompt instead of starting xwin; >typing xwin at the prompt started jwm ...
by scsijon
Tue Jan 18, 2022 1:54 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS version 3.2.1 released
Replies: 25
Views: 2549

Re: EasyOS version 3.2.1 released

I upgraded from 3.2 and it works no problem. Note I had to make sure the laptop was set to internal sound and not HDMI to have sound work straight away. No upgrading if connected to my TV :) One problem -- I had been using firefox installed through the menu and set to default. After upgrading I had...
by scsijon
Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:46 am
Forum: Drivers
Topic: DIGImend Drivers for Graphic Tablets
Replies: 0
Views: 1015

DIGImend Drivers for Graphic Tablets

Came across this when looking for linux drivers for a replacement for my old dying Waycom system. Main Sites are: https://digimend.github.io https://github.com/DIGImend https://github.com/DIGImend/digimend-kernel-drivers There are a few more but some are old archived and out of date stuff that have ...
by scsijon
Sun Jan 09, 2022 5:49 am
Forum: EasyOS
Topic: EasyOS version 3.2 released
Replies: 26
Views: 2689

Re: EasyOS version 3.2 released

cut from xerrs.log re obs-studio, may be of use /usr/bin/jwm libpng warning: Interlace handling should be turned on when using png_read_image /root/Startup/pa-applet_tray: waited 1 seconds for pulseaudio daemon. /root/Startup/pulseaudio: waited 2 seconds for bluetoothd /root/Startup/pulseaudio: star...

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