EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.3.1

[CF-DKS]

Did the update to 6.2 on both a desktop hard drive and a USB drive. Went smoothly with no issues. Thanks, Barry!

[bugnaw333]

Updated thru Easyupdate--No problemo.

[ripwardog]

Updated just fine. Thank you Mr. Barry

[FeodorF]

How about this one?
Yes, it works very well with esayOS v. 6.2 .
Errata: See BarryK's next post.

Flathub-BraveBrowser-.png (24.36 KiB) Viewed 3098 times

Sorry!

[james2]

Would'nt install for me to check it out. Came up in flappi but no icon. Even firefox is turning into a google these days. Invasive and closed shop on choice. Good reviews are head to head with the bad with all of them.

[james2]

Smooth sailing to 6.2, thx Barry.

[BarryK]

How about this one?
Yes, it works very well with esayOS v. 6.2 .
Flathub-BraveBrowser.png

The App ID should be "com.brave.Browser"
Leave off that "apps/"

[Federico]

I successfully installed and used OCRmyPDF on Scarthgap (since v 6.1). It's in my opinion the best software for PDF text recognition.

- based on Tesseract
- the processing is very fast
- the text recognition is very powerful (it basically always recognizes all of the included text)
- the generated output PDF-files are compact
- all the included background images are kept, without any color modification

To achieve this, these 42 packages need to be downloaded and installed. The list follows:

- ghostscript_9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7_amd64.deb
- libcurl4_7.88.1-10+deb12u6_amd64.deb <----- to be uninstalled and reinstalled after every EasyOS update
- libgs9-common_9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7_all.deb
- libgs9_9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7_amd64.deb
- libidn11_1.33-3_amd64.deb
- libijs-0.35_0.35-15_amd64.deb
- libimagequant0_2.17.0-1_amd64.deb
- libjbig2dec0_0.19-2_amd64.deb
- libldap-2.5-0_2.5.13+dfsg-5_amd64.deb
- liblept5_1.82.0-3+b3_amd64.deb
- libpaper1_1.1.28+b1_amd64.deb
- libqpdf29_11.3.0-1+deb12u1_amd64.deb
- librtmp1_2.4+20151223.gitfa8646d.1-2+b2_amd64.deb
- libsasl2-2_2.1.28+dfsg-10_amd64.deb
- libtesseract5_5.3.0-2_amd64.deb
- ocrmypdf-doc_14.0.1+dfsg1-1_all.deb
- ocrmypdf_14.0.1+dfsg1-1_all.deb
- python3-charset-normalizer_3.0.1-2_all.deb
- python3-coloredlogs_15.0.1-1_all.deb
- python3-cryptography_38.0.4-3_amd64.deb
- python3-deprecated_1.2.13-3_all.deb
- python3-deprecation_2.1.0-2_all.deb
- python3-humanfriendly_10.0-3_all.deb
- python3-img2pdf_0.4.4-3_all.deb
- python3-importlib-resources_5.1.2-2_all.deb
- python3-lxml_4.9.2-1+b1_amd64.deb
- python3-packaging_23.0-1_all.deb
- python3-pdfminer_20221105+dfsg-1_all.deb
- python3-pikepdf_8.15.1+dfsg-1+b1_amd64.deb
- python3-pil_10.4.0-1_amd64.deb
- python3-pkg-resources_66.1.1-1_all.deb
- python3-pluggy_1.0.0+repack-1_all.deb
- python3-reportlab-accel_3.6.12-1+b1_amd64.deb
- python3-reportlab_3.6.12-1_all.deb
- python3-tqdm_4.64.1-1_all.deb
- python3-typing-extensions_4.4.0-1_all.deb
- python3-wrapt_1.14.1-2+b2_amd64.deb
- tesseract-ocr-eng_4.1.0-2_all.deb
- tesseract-ocr-ita_4.1.0-2_all.deb
- tesseract-ocr-osd_4.1.0-2_all.deb
- tesseract-ocr-script-latn_4.1.0-2_all.deb
- tesseract-ocr_5.3.0-2_amd64.deb

after the installation you should see something like this:

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# gs -version
GPL Ghostscript 9.53.3 (2020-10-01)
Copyright (C) 2020 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
# 

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# tesseract --version
tesseract 5.3.0
 leptonica-1.82.0
  libgif 5.2.1 : libjpeg 6b (libjpeg-turbo 2.1.2) : libpng 1.6.42 : libtiff 4.6.0 : zlib 1.2.13 : libwebp 1.3.2 : libopenjp2 2.5.0
 Found AVX512BW
 Found AVX512F
 Found AVX512VNNI
 Found AVX2
 Found AVX
 Found FMA
 Found SSE4.1
 Found OpenMP 201511
 Found libarchive 3.7.4 zlib/1.3.1 liblzma/5.4.6 bz2lib/1.0.8 libzstd/1.5.5
 Found libcurl/7.88.1 OpenSSL/3.2.2 zlib/1.3.1 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.5 libidn2/2.3.7 libpsl/0.21.5 (+libicu/74.2) libssh2/1.11.0 nghttp2/1.61.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.13
#

both commands should not report any error whatsoever.

More over, the target of the symbolic link /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ocrmypdf/data/sRGB.icc must be changed to /usr/share/color/icc/ghostscript/srgb.icc, otherwise you'll get a Python error. If you have a powerful file manager (like KDE Dolphin) this can be done quite easily by just looking at the properties of the link. If you don't, you can do that by issueing the following commands:

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# cd /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ocrmypdf/data
# ln -sfT /usr/share/color/icc/ghostscript/srgb.icc sRGB.icc

[LHESTIA]

update to 6.2 perfectly successful; Thanks Barry.

[Federico]

Update to 6.2 successfull. The system looks to be running a little bit more stable, especially during start ups and shutdowns.
I have been exüeriencing sporadic freezes or strange slowdowns with 6.1 and 6.1.1, often accompanied to the network card being dead. Now it all runs very stable.
More over, all applications appear to launch faster. This is particularly visible when launching heavier programs like LibreOffice, Gimp and even all of the KDE apps I'm using.
Thank you Barry!

[ghoen]

Still amazed that I can watch a live television broadcast on a samsung n210plus 2gb , bought in 2011, still functioning.

tks Barry K.

Greetings

[tammi806]

Another release!

Blog announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202408/easyos-s ... eased.html

Thanks Barry K.

Love the new background.
Trains and train stations are just cool.

I did a frugal install to a usb drive on a new to me thrift store desktop it went without problems and sofar everything I've used works as it's supposed to.

Thanks again.

[Federico]

I'm reporting perfect operation on the following hardware:

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# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne Root Complex
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne IOMMU
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 51)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 7
01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
02:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller PM9B1 (DRAM-less) (rev 02)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Lucienne (rev c1)
03:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
03:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Platform Security Processor
03:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
03:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
03:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor (rev 01)
03:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller

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# lscpu
Architektur:                       x86_64
  CPU Operationsmodus:             32-bit, 64-bit
  Adressgrößen:                    48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
  Byte-Reihenfolge:                Little Endian
CPU(s):                            16
  Liste der Online-CPU(s):         0-15
Anbieterkennung:                   AuthenticAMD
  BIOS-Anbieterkennung:            Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
  Modellname:                      AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics
    BIOS-Modellname:               AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics          Unknown CPU @ 1.8GHz
    BIOS-Prozessorfamilie:         107
    Prozessorfamilie:              23
    Modell:                        104
    Thread(s) pro Kern:            2
    Kern(e) pro Sockel:            8
    Sockel:                        1
    Stepping:                      1
    Übertaktung:                   aktiviert
    Skalierung der CPU(s):         78%
    Maximale Taktfrequenz der CPU: 1800,0000
    Minimale Taktfrequenz der CPU: 1400,0000
    BogoMIPS:                      3594,54
    Markierungen:                  fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl no
                                   nstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy
                                    abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp vmmc
                                   all fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsave
                                   erptr rdpru wbnoinvd cppc arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rd
                                   pid overflow_recov succor smca
Virtualisierungsfunktionen:        
  Virtualisierung:                 AMD-V
Caches (Gesamtsumme):              
  L1d:                             256 KiB (8 Instanzen)
  L1i:                             256 KiB (8 Instanzen)
  L2:                              4 MiB (8 Instanzen)
  L3:                              8 MiB (2 Instanzen)
Schwachstellen:                    
  Gather data sampling:            Not affected
  Itlb multihit:                   Not affected
  L1tf:                            Not affected
  Mds:                             Not affected
  Meltdown:                        Not affected
  Mmio stale data:                 Not affected
  Reg file data sampling:          Not affected
  Retbleed:                        Vulnerable
  Spec rstack overflow:            Vulnerable
  Spec store bypass:               Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Spectre v1:                      Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Spectre v2:                      Vulnerable; IBPB: conditional; STIBP: conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Srbds:                           Not affected
  Tsx async abort:                 Not affected
# 

It's a HP laptop 17-cp0281ng.

Integrated screen --> working
Brightness setting --> working
Audio chip --> working
Integrated microphone --> working
Integrated camera --> working
Integrated touchpad --> working
Integrated wireless network card --> working
Integrated bluetooth chip --> working
Battery management --> working
CPU frequency scaling --> working
Keyboard and numeric keypad keys correctly set --> working
3D graphics acceleration through AMD Radeon driver (package xf86-video-amdgpu-22.0.0-r2) --> working
HDMI video output (external screen) --> working

Installed EasyOS Scarthgap 6.2 and running it from the internal SSD of the laptop with no problems whatsoever.

The video outputs are named by the driver as follows:

Integrated screen --> eDP
external screen --> HDMI-A-0

[tammi806]

Hello All,

Just upgraded Easy OS 6.1.1 to Easy OS 6.2 on a desktop I cobbled together from other computers.

The upgrade went without a hitch and everything I have used works OOTB.

I never been much on upgrades from version to version although Easy OS does it successfully OOTB.

Thanks Barry K for all of your work.

[Falco]

Hello,

L'installation n'a pas l'air compliquée, et pourtant... c'est si compliqué de faire un vrai pas à pas ? Le tutoriel est incompréhensible, désolé.

Sur la clé usbv ça marche, mais dès que je veux l'installer sur le SSD (sans cohabitation), c'est à dire copier les 3 fichiers prévus + configurer avec grub bootloader... et bien non, a ne démarre pas;

Lenovo thinkpad X260

Merci si vous pouvez m'aider.

[don570]

mais dès que je veux l'installer sur le SSD (sans cohabitation), c'est à dire copier les 3 fichiers prévus + configurer avec grub bootloader... et bien non, a ne démarre pas;

J'ai également des problèmes avec l'installation de «Scarthap».
Le chargeur de démarrage «Limine» ne fonctionnera pas. Il dit que je n'ai pas d'ordinateur UEFI.

On peut utiliser Windows 10 pour créer de l'espace vide sur une partition et le formater avec EXT4. Une installation frugale est alors possible.

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

[BarryK]

There are things happening "under the hood" (American English) or "under the bonnet" (British English):

"Orange-ball menu entries restructured"
https://bkhome.org/news/202409/orange-b ... tured.html

"Appi and Flapi script path changes"
https://bkhome.org/news/202409/appi-and ... anges.html

[FeodorF]

Hi @BarryK ,

I'm running into a problem with EasyOS.

As soon as I change my clock type to UTC time it becomes a permanent setup. I'm unable to revert it. I can change the setup to locale time as well as software to match hardware but this setup will not survive a power off. After a power off I'll be back to UTC. In my case +2 hours ahead.

Changing the timezone via 'Set timezone' from UTC+1 to Europe/Berlin will survive the power off but clock type via 'Set hardware-clock type' will not.

Regards,
Feodor

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[szept]

Haven't been on EasyOS for a while, hence still running 5.8.3. I can see the autoupdate isn't working. Do I have to just download and place the new vmlinuz, initrd and easy.sfs into the
working-partition and reboot or are there any special actions to do?

Regards,
Damian

See:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 54#p128854

You can bump to 5.8.4 if you wish, or see the link that explains how to transition to the Scarthgap-series.

Ok, do I get it right that I have to get another pendrive to make a brand new EasyOS 6.x install on it to get vmlinuz, initrd and easy.sfs files and then copy them over to my current pendrive where I currently have 5.8.3? I cannot download these files from somewhere directly without need to do a fresh EasyOS install?

[BarryK]

Haven't been on EasyOS for a while, hence still running 5.8.3. I can see the autoupdate isn't working. Do I have to just download and place the new vmlinuz, initrd and easy.sfs into the
working-partition and reboot or are there any special actions to do?

Regards,
Damian

See:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 54#p128854

You can bump to 5.8.4 if you wish, or see the link that explains how to transition to the Scarthgap-series.

Ok, do I get it right that I have to get another pendrive to make a brand new EasyOS 6.x install on it to get vmlinuz, initrd and easy.sfs files and then copy them over to my current pendrive where I currently have 5.8.3? I cannot download these files from somewhere directly without need to do a fresh EasyOS install?

No.
Running EasyOS 5.8.3, download easy-6.2-amd64..img, click on it to open it up.
Drag the three files to /mnt/wkg

As explained in the blog:
https://bkhome.org/news/202406/how-to-u ... ap-60.html

[BarryK]

more news, Appi and Flapi improved:

https://bkhome.org/news/202409/appi-and ... aware.html

[Caramel]

Hi @BarryK ,

I'm running into a problem with EasyOS.

As soon as I change my clock type to UTC time it becomes a permanent setup. I'm unable to revert it. I can change the setup to locale time as well as software to match hardware but this setup will not survive a power off. After a power off I'll be back to UTC. In my case +2 hours ahead.

Changing the timezone via 'Set timezone' from UTC+1 to Europe/Berlin will survive the power off but clock type via 'Set hardware-clock type' will not.

Regards,
Feodor
UTC-problem-3.png

The script /usr/bin/set_hwclock_type write the chosen clock type in /etc/clock.

At reboot /etc/clock is overwritten by /etc/clock.${PC_HARDWARE_PROFILE} where the variable PC_HARDWARE_PROFILE is available in /tmp/pc-hardware-profile) (see /etc/rc.d/rc.country line 41)

So the chosen clock type must be written in /etc/clock.${PC_HARDWARE_PROFILE} too.

[FeodorF]

Thank you very much @Caramel, well done !

[BarryK]

Hi @BarryK ,

I'm running into a problem with EasyOS.

As soon as I change my clock type to UTC time it becomes a permanent setup. I'm unable to revert it. I can change the setup to locale time as well as software to match hardware but this setup will not survive a power off. After a power off I'll be back to UTC. In my case +2 hours ahead.

Changing the timezone via 'Set timezone' from UTC+1 to Europe/Berlin will survive the power off but clock type via 'Set hardware-clock type' will not.

Regards,
Feodor
UTC-problem-3.png

The script /usr/bin/set_hwclock_type write the chosen clock type in /etc/clock.

At reboot /etc/clock is overwritten by /etc/clock.${PC_HARDWARE_PROFILE} where the variable PC_HARDWARE_PROFILE is available in /tmp/pc-hardware-profile) (see /etc/rc.d/rc.country line 41)

So the chosen clock type must be written in /etc/clock.${PC_HARDWARE_PROFILE} too.

Thanks very much for that. Fix applied:

https://bkhome.org/news/202409/fix-hard ... iling.html

[BarryK]

How about this one?
Yes, it works very well with esayOS v. 6.2 .

OK, Brave Browser added to Flapi, see blog:

https://bkhome.org/news/202409/brave-br ... flapi.html

Brave homepage:

https://brave.com/

[FeodorF]

How about this one?
Yes, it works very well with esayOS v. 6.2 .

OK, Brave Browser added to Flapi, see blog:

https://bkhome.org/news/202409/brave-br ... flapi.html

Brave homepage:

https://brave.com/

Hi All!

Updating the Brave browser to the newest version 1.69.162 Chromium 128.0.6613.120 (Official Build) went smooth via pkg->Flapi Update function. The old Brave setup will be kept while updating.

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[FeodorF]

Important if you don't use your Smart Phone for it.

Some 'Global-Cloud' based https:// sites demand that your PC's RTC is synchronized with the NTP server; 'localtime' becomes a requirement.

Hence I have used Menu -> Setup -> Date & Time Setup -> Qsync set time from Internet
(x) Tick to enable Qsync
NTP server (Europe)

What was I going to say? - Don't know.

[don570]

HP elite desktop

I was able to boot EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.2 from a USB stick
I had to use legacy method of HP BIOS

__________________________
wifi was recognized immediated
SAMBA worked well
Audacity 3.4 appimage worked well to record
However limine installer didn't work --> perhaps because of strange 2 disk install
I have with internal SATA ??? Other linux distros don't boot up with legacy. LICK config file works,but not in the way intended.
i.e. I have to 'boot from file'
Windows 10 does boot, but perhaps
this is a legacy method that HP computers allow.
There is a UEFI folder
_________________________________________

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[FeodorF]

Fast move.

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[BarryK]

Version 6.3 is out! See blog announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202409/easyos-s ... eased.html

Quite an exciting release, expanding the builtin language support to Chinese. There is an invite for translation help:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 45#p130645