This time I'm really impressed!
Posting this from Daedalus 6.3.90 installed on a 64 GB Sandisk Ultra
Hardware:
- Video --> Working (no issues whatsoever)
- 3D acceleration --> Working (installation of packages mesa-utils and mesa-utils-bin needed, even if they are shown as being already installed)
- Screen brightness setting --> Working (Update v 6.4.4 --> now the system remembers the last setting and sets it automatically after each boot)
- Audio --> Working (super easy to setup)
- Network --> Working (moderately buggy on my hardware. Update v 6.4.4 --> still moderately buggy on my hardware)
- Battery monitoring --> Working
- CPU frequency scaling --> Working
- CPU temperature monitoring --> Working
- Bluetooth --> Not fully working (installation of the package firmware-iwlwifi_20240610 needed - the one on the repository did not work for me - BT can detect other devices but cannot pair with them. It also looks strange that the system does not broadcast any name for itself. Update v 6.4.4 --> Now BT looks to be fixed.)
- Keyboard layout and backlighting --> Working
- Mounting and reading / writing from / to NTFS partitions --> Working
- could not test the touchpad, 'cause it's physically broken on my laptop
- the CPU runs cool, but not as cool as on Scarthgap, idleing at about 40 °C (could also be due to the video driver)
My hardware:
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# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 01)
0000:00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP Dynamic Tuning Processor Participant (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 PCI Express Root Port #0 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev 01)
0000:00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation GNA Scoring Accelerator module (rev 01)
0000:00:0d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:0d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 NHI #0 (rev 01)
0000:00:0d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 NHI #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller
0000:00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Shared SRAM (rev 20)
0000:00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (rev 20)
0000:00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 20)
0000:00:15.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 20)
0000:00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Management Engine Interface (rev 20)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev 20)
0000:00:1d.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation RST VMD Managed Controller
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP LPC Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SMBus Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SPI Controller (rev 20)
0000:57:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
10000:e0:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev 20)
10000:e1:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Intel Corporation SSD 660P Series (rev 03)
# lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes: 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 8
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
BIOS Vendor ID: Intel(R) Corporation
Model name: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
BIOS Model name: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz To Be Filled By O.E.M. CPU @ 2.4GHz
BIOS CPU family: 205
CPU family: 6
Model: 140
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: 1
Frequency boost: enabled
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 30%
CPU max MHz: 2401,0000
CPU min MHz: 400,0000
BogoMIPS: 4840,00
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arc
h_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid
sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb cat_l2 cdp_l2 ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhance
d tpr_shadow flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap avx512ifma clflushopt clwb intel_pt
avx512cd sha_ni avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves split_lock_detect dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_pkg_req vnmi avx512
vbmi umip pku ospke avx512_vbmi2 gfni vaes vpclmulqdq avx512_vnni avx512_bitalg avx512_vpopcntdq rdpid movdiri movdir64b fsrm avx512_vp2intersect md_clear ibt flush_l1d
arch_capabilities
Virtualization features:
Virtualization: VT-x
Caches (sum of all):
L1d: 192 KiB (4 instances)
L1i: 128 KiB (4 instances)
L2: 5 MiB (4 instances)
L3: 8 MiB (1 instance)
Vulnerabilities:
Gather data sampling: Mitigation; Microcode
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: Not affected
Spec rstack overflow: Not affected
Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Spectre v2: Mitigation; Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS SW sequence; BHI SW loop, KVM SW loop
Srbds: Not affected
Tsx async abort: Not affected
#
Software:
Had no time to thoroughly test everything, but the system looks to be very responsive at first glance. Also graphical effects (fades etc...) look very smooth.
- German locale --> Working
- Installed Ungoogled Chromium by downloading an AppImage of it; sorry for the missing availability of a Menu download-entry
- The GIMP can be installed from the repo (v 2.10.34)
- LibreOffice is extremely fast to launch (v 24.2.3.2)
- Audacious (v 4.2) --> Working perfectly including QuickTime mode
- The system is running on Linux kernel 6.6.56
- Samba networking --> not tested jet
- QEmu and emulation --> not jet tested
- KDE Dolphin --> easily installable from the repository (v 22.12.3) (Update v 6.4.4 --> Now very nicely integrated - no problems even after system updates -)
- KDE Okular --> easily installable from the repository (v 22.12.3) (Update v 6.4.4 --> Now very nicely integrated - no problems even after system updates -)
- KDE KTorrent --> easily installable from the repository (v 22.12.3) (Update v 6.4.4 --> Now very nicely integrated - no problems even after system updates -)
For the people interested in using the Dolphin file manager, remember to also install the Breeze icon theme from the repository (package breeze-icon-theme_5.103.0-1), otherwise it won't display icons. Also very adviseable are the installations of the packages udisks2_2.9.4-4devuan1 and all of its dependencies (for displaying the drives icons with bars on the bottom left corner of the window), and also kio-extras_22.12.3-1 and kio-extras-data_22.12.3-1, which are needed to display previews of many file types.
The package libudisks2-qt5-0 is also useful because, as far as I understood, it lets udisks2 work smoother by using QuickTime 5 libraries.
All these packages are available on the repository but not installed automatically by PKGget (they're not considered as dependencies). Short summary of additional packages to be installed for KDE Dolphin:
- breeze-icon-theme_5.103.0-1
- udisks2_2.9.4-4devuan1 (and all its dependencies)
- libudisks2-qt5-0
- kio-extras_22.12.3-1
- kio-extras-data_22.12.3-1
(Update v 6.4.4 --> Now Barry should have added all these packages as dependecies, so they should be installed automatically when installing Dolphin. However, I couldn't test this jet.)
I'm really very impressed. This is not just another distribution disguised as EasyOS (like basically QV is). Here there is everything: session saving at system shut down, containers and all the best EasyOS features. Maybe there is the only small drawback of the installations being slow, because packages are basically downloaded and installed one by one (instead of downloaded alltogether first and then installed alltogether). But really we are basically reaching the non plus ultra. This can be considered as:
- EasyOS Scarthgap with the availability of the whole Debian repository (Devuan is nothing else than Debian without systemd)
- a modernized and much more efficient version of EasyOS Buster
- Debian itself... made Easy
I can't honestly conceive a better operating system than this one. This is basically the best of the best of everything. This is perfect: there are no limitations and no drawbacks. How could this possibly be improved? This is basically a death sentence for Microsoft: the most powerful Linux system which ever existed. I think that at this point we are really ready to climb the leaderboards... now I'm really curious to see what people will say about EasyOS Daedalus on Distrowatch.
This basically ridicules distributions like K-Ubuntu or MX-Linux.