EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.5

[BarryK]

Scarthgap 6.5, December 3, 2024
viewtopic.php?p=137024#p137024

Scarthgap 6.4.5, November 27, 2024
viewtopic.php?p=136571#p136571

Scarthgap 6.4.4, November 19, 2024
viewtopic.php?p=136046#p136046

V6.4.2, November 5, 2024
Discussion starts here:
viewtopic.php?p=134985#p134985

V6.4, October 28, 2024
Blog announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202410/easyos-s ... on-64.html

[BarryK]

Snapshot of desktop:

scarthgap-6p4.jpg (33.16 KiB) Viewed 2572 times

The wallpaper is a photo I took with my phone last summer.
It is a beach south of Perth, Western Australia.
This beach is nearly always gentle, as there are reefs further out that breakup the waves.

[bugnaw333]

Done...thanks Barry.

[BarryK]

If you load the devs sfs, there is a problem with running vscode.

VSCode is builtin to the devx; however, /usr/bin/vscode needs to be fixed. It is a script. Replace with the attached file, which has a false ".gz"

Also, I somehow didn't update /usr/bin/build-rox-sendto, with support for vscode and .zig files.
Replace with the attached, false ".gz".

Then in a terminal, run:

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# build-rox-sendto

Then, when you right-click on a .zig file, VSCode will be in the menu. Also for lots of other text files.

Anyone interested in exploring configuring VSCode?
It seems to need a bit of setting up. Opens files in "restricted mode", which doesn't seem appropriate.

Reading online comments, VSCode has a lot of divided opinions.

[BarryK]

You can find some .zig files to play with under /opt

Open a .zig file in vscode, it defaults to open in restricted mode. have to unset that, then shows highlighting:

vscode-zig.png (136.31 KiB) Viewed 2554 times

How to disable restricted mode? That is just annoying.

Initial impressions, vscode is complicated, the "features" get in the way of just using a text editor.

I'm going to hunt for another text editor that supports .zig.
I did look at a couple that are nice, simple and small, but they are terminal apps and require vi-like keyboard control.
I prefer a mouse gui.

[pp4mnklinux]

Thaks 4 your work.

I'll install it as soon as I go back home but ,for sure, it will work nice, really nice.

Thanks for your time @BarryK , cheers.

[tammi806]

Hello all,

Just did the update to 6.4 and all went without a hitch.

Will drive it around tomorrow.

I'm tired and going to bed.

Us old folks need our sleep.

Thanks Barry K. for giving us these great Linux distros.

Update

I just realized I posted in the wrong section.

Should have been in the Daedalus section.

My apologies.

[BarryK]

Pleased to have thrown out the huge electron-based VSCode, placed with Vim, which has Zig highlighting, see blog:

https://bkhome.org/news/202410/vim-text ... s-zig.html

[thinkpadfreak]

Thanks for the updated version.

I am glad that the Japanese locale can be selected out of the box.
Did you translate the messages of the network manager into Japanese? (Automatic translation ?)

The same can be said about Daedalus, too. Thanks a lot.

[CF-DKS]

Updated this morning, no problems. Looking forward to discovering all the new things!

[BarryK]

PKGget now asks if want to install non-root:

https://bkhome.org/news/202411/pkgget-a ... -root.html

This will be in the next release of Scarthgap and Daedalus.

Note: in QV, PKGget automatically installs non-root, but I think it is nicer to ask.

[BarryK]

EasyOS Scarthgap and Daedalus next releases will have HTML-NOTEPAD and PackIt:

https://bkhome.org/news/202411/html-not ... ackit.html

HTML-NOTEPAD is a nice little HTML WYSIWYG editor.
PackIt is an archiver tool created by SFR

[rockedge]

@BarryK Nice find with this HTML-NOTEPAD and looks worth it to work on the code and make those improvements mentioned on your blog.

I would recommend adding UExtract to accompany PackIt. The latest version of UExtract works with .xbps formats as well and overall has superseded X-Archive on the Kennel Linux's (KLV) as the default stock offering for file extraction because of the wide range of compression formats and techniques UExtract can deal with.

[BarryK]

EasyOS Scarthgap and Daedalus next releases will have HTML-NOTEPAD and PackIt:

https://bkhome.org/news/202411/html-not ... ackit.html

HTML-NOTEPAD is a nice little HTML WYSIWYG editor.
PackIt is an archiver tool created by SFR

I should mention; it is not entirely open source.

HTML-NOTEPAD is an app that uses scite-sdk, which is a html engine, and it provides a precompiled .so file that HTML-NOTEPAD is linked to.

And we do not have the source for the .so file. It is a commercial product, and the source has a price.

Does that really matter?

[BarryK]

Version 6.4.2 is out!

See blog announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202411/easyos-s ... eased.html

The update from 6.4 is only a 20MB download.

[bugnaw333]

The "show folder" in the downloaded file will open the UExtract dialogue box by default. Why is it?

[BarryK]

The "show folder" in the downloaded file will open the UExtract dialogue box by default. Why is it?

Wow, yes, thanks for discovering that.
The reason is here:

viewtopic.php?p=134998#p134998

You can fix it by editing /usr/share/applications/uextract.desktop and delete this from the "MimeType" entry:

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inode/directory;inode/mount-point;

Then run:

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# build-rox-sendto

I have removed those from the uextract PET
Was going to do it anyway, as don't like the idea of recursive archive extraction.

Apart from needing this little fix, UExtract is very nice. Thanks guys for recommending that it be builtin to EasyOS.

[Vverve]

Hi @BarryK
I've jump on 6.4.2 !!!

I am checking old right-click pet , that nice option it provide , run-in-terminal for executable , that feature would be nice too !!
Less click = happier users

Thanks for all tlc you give to Easyos BK.

[don570]

The other right-click utility that I use a lot is 'Pupmd5sum 1.8' ( originally written by 01micko but improved by several people).
However it requires the menu to show for all types of packages and images.
I'm not sure if I used SendTo or OpenWith folder ??? It was whatever the older Puppies used.
I didn't use MimeTypes since I didn't even know that they controlled right click menu.
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... 88#p680788
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[tammi806]

Hello forum,

Did a clean frugal install of EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.4.2 and everything I use appears to be working.

Chromium seems to be working and by that I mean I can open several browser windows without losing any of the previously opened windows.

Thanks for the new update / upgrade BarryK.

[BarryK]

Further working fixing mime handling, see blog:

https://bkhome.org/news/202411/syntax-f ... slist.html

[tallboy]

Hi Barry
I have now downloaded easy-6.4.1-amd64.img and easy-6.4.2-amd64.img. The problem is that the 6.4.1 version is Daedalus, and the 6.4.2 version is Scarthgap. To avoid confusion, can you please rename the Daedalus img before it's next upgrade?

tallboy

[tammi806]

Hi Barry
I have now downloaded easy-6.4.1-amd64.img and easy-6.4.2-amd64.img. The problem is that the 6.4.1 version is Daedalus, and the 6.4.2 version is Scarthgap. To avoid confusion, can you please rename the Daedalus img before it's next upgrade?

tallboy

@tallboy

They are actually 2 different distros.

https://bkhome.org/news/202410/easyos-s ... on-64.html

[BarryK]

Hi Barry
I have now downloaded easy-6.4.1-amd64.img and easy-6.4.2-amd64.img. The problem is that the 6.4.1 version is Daedalus, and the 6.4.2 version is Scarthgap. To avoid confusion, can you please rename the Daedalus img before it's next upgrade?

tallboy

I have previously thought about naming it like "scarthgap-6.4.2-amd64.img"; however, there is a lot of hard-coded expectation in various scripts expecting the name "easy-...". It would be a lot of work so I don't think that I will change it.

You will need to download the drive image files into appropriately-named folders.

Besides, once you have installed Scarthgap and Daedalus, you won't need to download the full drive-image file again.

[BarryK]

I am checking old right-click pet , that nice option it provide , run-in-terminal for executable , that feature would be nice too !!
Less click = happier users

Your wish is my command! ...well, sometimes

This request is now done, see blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202411/rox-righ ... minal.html

[Vverve]

Your wish ...

https://bkhome.org/news/202411/rox-righ ... minal.html

hmmm , for now , they all are for my fellow US citizens neighbors... elsewhere ,peace ?

I'll find something more Easyos, eventualy .
Oh , when kernel 6.12 be out , rt preempt should be easier to build .. they say .

Thanks BK .

[don570]

I see that run-in-terminal depends on MimeType

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MimeType=application/x-shellscript;application/x-executable

Hopefully the '.zig' extension is recognized as a executable script
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[BarryK]

I see that run-in-terminal depends on MimeType

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MimeType=application/x-shellscript;application/x-executable

Hopefully the '.zig' extension is recognized as a executable script
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No, .zig is not an executable, it is Zig code. It has to be compiled first.

It is theoretically possible to run a .zig file as a script, see here:

...but the shebang line actually compiles it then runs it.

But, what I will do is add these to the MimeType, as they are executable scripts:

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;application/x-perl;application/x-python;application/x-python3

[williwaw]

I am checking old right-click pet , that nice option it provide , run-in-terminal for executable , that feature would be nice too !!
Less click = happier users

Your wish is my command! ...well, sometimes

This request is now done, see blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202411/rox-righ ... minal.html

very nice addition. thanks. will the commit be limited to woofq or extended to woofqv? I second don570 suggestion for an md5sum command entry in the right click menu.

[don570]

No, .zig is not an executable, it is Zig code. It has to be compiled first.

It is theoretically possible to run a .zig file as a script, see here:

zig is able to create an executable and then run the code
https://fig.io/manual/zig/run

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zig run hello.zig

The zig file is ordinary text as far as Mime Types is concerned.
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