New to EasyOS?
EasyOs is a complete full featured OS designed to run from a USB flash drive. When EasyOs is run from a dedicated drive, nothing is accessed on your primary disk unless you choose to do so.
EasyOs includes the LibreOffice suite and the Chromium browser in addition to many tools and apps. The currently maintained version, Kirkstone, also has an additional repo of binary applications available for download with PKGget, the traditional puppy like package manager, which also is used to access Puppy Linux repos.
Other larger apps, supplied as .sfs's, can also be installed with SFSget. and EasyOs also includes installers for Appimages and Flatpacks.
An index to Barrys documentation is found at EasyOS homepage You will find links to overviews of EasyOS, applications in EasyOS, development and programming pages, installation tutorials, technical details and usage guidelines.
How and Why EasyOs is Different is the primary introduction page
Some notable features are........
Encryption of your your persistent data directories with fscrypt can be elected when setting up your install during the first boot up.
EasyOs has many options for secure browsing.
You can choose to save the current session or not, and a shutdown menu give you choices for running the next session totally in ram or not. When lockdown is selected it is impossible to mount other partitions or disks, in the next session, preventing any possible access.
Applications can be run on the desktop or in a container. The entire desktop can be run containerized and you can even run a different OS in a container.
Updating to recent versions can be done using EasyUpdate at your convenience, and Easy Version Control allows you to rollback to an earlier version Of EasyOs in addition to enabling snapshots and rollbacks of your persistent data directory.
For a deeper look under the hood, see this how easy works page
Installation
Creating an EasyOs USB
A USB flash drive should be dedicated to your EasyOs install, as the download is packaged as a full disk image. Having a dedicated USB install is also useful to have on hand as a rescue disk, or for making frugal installs of EasyOs to internal disks. The tutorial linked above explains how to write EasyOs to your USB stick and has links to useful tools. USB Image Tool or DiskImager is useful when working from Windows to create your USB , while Linux users who are not comfortable using the dd command in a terminal emulator should find EasyDD useful.
How to install EasyOS on your hard drive
Dual booting EasyOs with other operating systems from an internal disk, or installing EasyOs to a disk partition is also possible. A frugal install is the prefered method.
Should you need to open or mount an EasyOs image file from a Linux distrubition that does not support mounting an .img file, mount-img may be useful
Other documentation
For EasyOs and related projects can be found by using custom searches.
in the search bar at Barry's News
and the meta search at Puppy Linux Search and at rockedge.org
Barry posts quite often in his blog about the development of EasyOs and his other interests and projects.
