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| DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 977, 18 July 2022 |
Welcome to this year's 29th issue of DistroWatch Weekly!
The EasyOS distribution is an unusual project. With a history rooted in Puppy Linux, the EasyOS project experiments with a number of technologies, especially containers for providing clean, isolated environments. In our Feature Story, Jeff Siegel takes EasyOS for a test drive and reports on his experiences with this unusual distribution. In our Questions and Answers column we talk about migrating desktop themes from one distribution to another. Do you like to customize your desktop's look or stick with the default provided by the developers? Let us know in this week's Opinion Poll. In our News section we discuss recent changes and improvements coming out of the Tails project while the Zevenet developers have made it easier to renew Let's Encrypt security certificates. Plus we are pleased to share the releases of the past week and list the torrents we are seeding. Finally, we warmly welcome a new, independent distribution called Peropesis to our database. Peropesis is a minimal, command line only distribution with a narrow focus and we're pleased to have it listed on our site. We wish you all a fantastic week and happy reading!
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| Feature Story (by Jeff Siegel) |
EasyOS 4.2
Puppy Linux has offered a minimal and portable Linux system for almost 20 years, making it not only one of the oldest continuous Linux distros, but a legend among anyone who ever used a desktop in a hotel business center. Insert a USB with Puppy on it, answer e-mail, print a boarding pass, and never once worry about malware, spyware, or navigating Internet Explorer.
Puppy impresario Barry Kauler started development on EasyOS in 2017. The goal was to take what he had with Puppy and Puppy successor Quirky and turn it into a cutting-edge, but still minimal, Linux distro. Hence, EasyOS runs off a USB stick, takes up only 641MB and needs just 2GB of memory (though 8GB is recommended). The Linux kernel (currently, the 5.15 series) loads into RAM at the first boot. Then it can save itself to the USB at the end of the session. In addition, EasyOS uses some of Linux's most modern technology, including containers, and its EasyShare app makes finding network printers and shares almost impossibly simple.
In this, EasyOS is fast, efficient, effective, and impressive. And, if the desktop is a bit unsightly - "retro," says Kauler - it doesn't get in the way of the work. (Yes, we're talking about you, GNOME.)
Still, know that EasyOS - to be polite - has its idiosyncrasies. I downloaded EasyOS Dunfell 4.1 for this review in the middle of June; two weeks later, the OS had been updated at least three times, and the update mechanism was broken in the process. In addition, the download comes as an IMG file and not an ISO, and Kauler is adamant about that difference. Finally, EasyOS is a work in progress, and not everything always happens as it is supposed to happen. As such, it's not for everyone, as well-intentioned as it is.
But if you're willing to work with all of that, EasyOS can be much fun.
EasyOS 4.2 -- The default desktop interface
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Taking it for a spin
How much fun? I loaded the IMG file on a Cruzer 64GB USB drive and used it on three computers - a Dell Inspiron touchscreen laptop running MX Linux that originally came with Windows 8.1; my Asus Ultrabook laptop with Xubuntu that I use for these reviews; and a Dell Optiplex desktop running Windows 10 Home that Microsoft won't let me upgrade to Windows 11. EasyOS was amazingly nimble on each.
The touchscreen worked on the Inspiron and it was as quick as the Asus, which has a faster processor. The biggest surprise was the duo core Optiplex, which only has 4GB of memory and sometimes struggles with Windows 10. But it took to EasyOS as if it was made for it. Best yet, the save function carried over for all three computers - so the work I did first on the Inspiron was there when I used EasyOS on the Windows box last.
As noted, not all was perfect. Installing EasyOS to the Inspiron's hard drive wasn't difficult, but performance was sometimes choppy. And, honestly, I don't see any reason to install EasyOS to a hard drive, as long as the USB is big enough to handle storage. Meanwhile, EasyOS's JWM/Rox window manager/file manager combination, as quick and light as it is, does take some getting used to. Adding new software can be laborious, and some of it wouldn't run after installation. GIMP and AbiWord wouldn't start, and showed errors when I ran them again in a terminal. This seems to be a known problem, and is mentioned in forum posts.
All the shiny baubles
Perhaps the most impressive thing about EasyOS is how simple it is to get it to run. It takes more effort to correctly hit F2 or F12 or whatever to get into the BIOS to select the correct boot option than to start the distro. Once you select the USB in the boot option (with UEFI, if necessary), EasyOS does the rest. It asks you to choose a keyboard and to make a password and 45 seconds or so later the blue EasyOS desktop appears, chock-a-block with icons and a Quick Setup Screen. That's followed by a sound card wizard, and yes, one of the test sounds is a puppy barking.
EasyOS 4.2 -- The Quick Setup utility
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The quick setup handles time zone, screen resolution, mouse troubleshooting, network settings, and language. The screen resolution setting works surprisingly well given how few system resources are available. It's basically the same system Fedora and Ubuntu use, though not as smooth looking.
Which is where EasyOS could suffer with some people -- elementary OS and its bespoke desktop it's not. Those of us who started with Puppy probably won't mind, but I can see newer Linux users looking at the rudimentary icons and watching JWM resize windows with flashing X and Y coordinates, and then wondering what they've gotten themselves into.
Plus, there are also almost too many pieces of software. How about three terminal emulators, three screenshot tools, and three scientific calculators? Some applications are decidedly retro, including Seamonkey for e-mail, Guvcview for the webcam (as balky about working as always), Gpicview for images, the mhWaveEdit sound recorder and editor, and the Osmo calendar.
Not to worry, though. Firefox and LibreOffice are the default web browser and office suite. Somehow, neither shows any signs of bloat. Both load quickly into RAM and are more than responsive; neither is this nimble on my Windows 10 computer, where Firefox can take a minute or more to load. Also included are the Audacious music player, the much underrated Homebank for personal finances, the MPV video player, and a Dropbox GUI. The EasyApps screen lets you pick which app among so many to use for which job.
EasyOS 4.2 -- The EasyApps utility
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The EasyShare printer and network app is nothing short of amazing. One reason why I use Nextcloud to connect the computers in my house is that I have always had trouble getting networking to work between my Linux desktop, laptop, and a couple of Windows computers. EasyShare almost makes Nextcloud unnecessary. Tell it what you're looking for, and it finds it.
EasyOS 4.2 -- Sharing files and printers over the network
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Since EasyOS runs in memory, the computer's hard drive is available for sharing files. Write a note about how the distro works using LibreOffice, and then use Rox to send it to the hard drive, where you can cut and paste it into the existing review.
EasyOS 4.2 -- Saving files to the hard drive
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Looking for containers
Adding software can be done with the PKGget package manage and SFSget. The former is traditional - pick repositories, search for the app, and download it. The latter is cutting edge and takes into account containers and compressed folders. The idea, apparently, is to sandbox apps or groups of apps. That way, all of the web and e-mail apps can have their own container, or so can LibreOffice's Writer. Kauler notes this isn't as much about security as it is testing containers. Also impressive: there are apps to check for missing dependencies and to "trim the fat" - remove unneeded dependencies.
In fact, Kauler's fascination with containers seems to be the distro's reason for being. The setup is simple enough, including a GUI, called EasyContainers, to build them. Any app or series of apps can be run in a container, including an instance of EasyOS, while a containerized version of Firefox is included. Having said that, it does seem that the container portion of the distro is more than most of us need, as intriguing as it is.
EasyOS 4.2 -- Setting up a container
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The other thing that sets EasyOS apart? Its documentation - pages and pages and pages of it, complete with links to even more pages. It's all apparently written by Kauler in a "We're all here to figure this out, so let's go one step at a time" style. What's not to like about someone who writes: "...a cheap flash-stick from the bargain-bin at the local supermarket may not be a good choice to run Linux!"
EasyOS 4.2 -- Exploring the EasyOS documentation
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The documentation is quite welcome, and especially for a distro as different as EasyOS. The help pages aren't too full of jargon or technical lingo, so when Kauler explains how to install EasyOS to a hard drive or how EasyShare works, it all makes sense.
But why not? Something called EasyOS should be easy.
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Hardware used for this review
My physical test equipment to install EasyOS for this review was a Dell Inspiron 11 3147 laptop with the following specifications:
- Processor: Intel Pentium N3530, 2.16GHz
- Storage: 465GB HDD
- Memory: 8GB of RAM
- Networking: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 802.11 b/g/n/ Wi-Fi+Bluetooth
- Display: Intel HD Graphics
When he is not testing out new versions of Linux distributions, Jeff Siegel can be found writing about all things related to wine at Wine Curmudgeon.
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Visitor supplied rating
EasyOS has a visitor supplied average rating of: 8.9/10 from 32 review(s).
Have you used EasyOS? You can leave your own review of the project on our ratings page.
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| Miscellaneous News (by Jesse Smith) |
Tails publishes list of recent changes, Zevenet facilitates renewal of Let's Encrypt certificates
The Tails team have published their monthly newsletter which outlines changes and work being done to improve the Tails distribution. One of the highlights is an improved interface for the Tor Connection application. "Here are a few highlights about what we did in May, among many other things: Our helpdesk email now has auto-reply. Improved the UX of Tor Connection: people that were 'exploring' the interface going back and forth used to find the wrong boxes to be automatically checked. We participated in Tor hackweek. It was very fun and very useful! We implemented QR code scanning. This seems to work, but it still isn't ready for inclusion. We added support for Snowflake. Again, this is a PoC: it's nice to see it working, but don't expect it to be released so soon. Tails 5.1 was released on June 4. It fixed an important security vulnerability, but it also brought many improvements...." The June report from the Tails team has more details.
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Zevenet is a load balancer and application delivery system based on Debian. The Zevenet platform provides HTTP and HTTPS connections for web applications as well as load balancing services for TCP and UDP traffic. The project published a minor update this past week which was announced in a brief post on the project's support forum. The key change in the new update was support for Let's Encrypt certificates: "We have fixed some issues and added a new feature. Now you can configure autorenewal for Let's Encrypt certificates via [the] web GUI."
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These and other news stories can be found on our Headlines page.
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| Questions and Answers (by Jesse Smith) |
Transferring a desktop theme to another distribution
Taking-my-desktop-with-me asks: The version of Xfce which comes with Zorin is beautiful and looks familiar to my family. These days I'm mostly running Mint though. Is there any way I can get the Zorin desktop on Mint?
DistroWatch answers: The visual style of a desktop environment is mostly governed by a collection of settings and instructions called a theme. A desktop theme will change the colour and style of elements displayed on the desktop.
Sometimes it can be tricky to track down where a distribution stores its theme information. The Zorin OS project makes this relatively straight forward though and has a specific GitHub repository set up which holds its themes.
Once you download a theme you can visit your desktop's control centre or appearance settings module. On Xfce this utility is appropriately called Appearance. In the Appearance application, click the Style tab and then click the Add button. This allow you to browse for and import your new theme.
The Xfce 4.16 Appearance settings module
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Additional information on themes, the locations of files used in a theme, and how to find more themes for your desktop can be found in the documentation for most major desktops. The Xfce wiki and KDE documentation share technical details on how their themes are implemented.
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Additional answers can be found in our Questions and Answers archive.
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| Released Last Week |
Network Security Toolkit 36-13232
Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable live disc based on the Fedora distribution. The distribution's latest release updates networking tools, places OpenVAS in a podman container, and retires the WUI sidebar navigation menu. "Access to the Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner (OpenVAS) and Greenbone Vulnerability Management (Greenbone GVM) has been refactored to run as a podman container providing the full-featured vulnerability scanner. See the graphic below: NST WUI page for the OpenVAS / GVM scanner. Added a Round Trip Time (RTT) column to the NST WUI ARP Scan application. In addition, most options are now supported and better documentation has been provided. An article on NST WUI ARP Scan usage can be found here. Now supporting underscore scoped DNS Node Leaf Attribute Names in the NST WUI dig application (e.g., _spf.google.com). Added a NIC selection control to the embedded IPv4, IPv6 and Host Name widget. The legacy NST WUI sidebar navigation menu has been retired." The full list of changes can be found in the release announcement.
T2 SDK 22.6
René Rebe has announced the release of a new version of T2 SDE, an open-source system development environment that allows the creation of custom Linux distributions. It is available for 24 processor architectures, with integrated support for cross compilation. The news post on the project's front page reads: "Today T2 SDE Linux 22.6 was released. A major milestone update to ship full support for 24 CPU architectures, variants, and C libraries. Of course all the architectures, including: alpha, arc, arm, arm64, avr32, hppa, ia64, m68k, mipsel, mips64, nios2, ppc, ppc64-32, ppc64le, riscv, riscv64, s390x, sparc64, superh x86, x86-64 and x32 can be rolling release updated through the rolling release scripted build system from source. Can be rolling release updated through the scripted build system. The 22.6 release received updates across the board, with latest stable Linux kernel 5.17.15, GCC12, LLVM/Clang 14 and the latest of KDE, GNOME and much more. There were 5014 change-sets with 6334 lines of commit messages. Approximately 4947 packages got updates, 331 issues fixed, 4947 packages or features added and 148 removed. Around 49 improvements have been committed."
Rocky Linux 9.0
The Rocky Linux team have announced a new release of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone, Rocky Linux 9.0. The new release offers GNOME 40, the ability to run different applications on different video cards, and filesystem improvements to reduce latency. "Rocky Linux 9 ships with GNOME 40 as the default desktop environment. Redesigned core apps, settings, and UI make it easier than ever to use Rocky Linux as a desktop operating system. The Activities look and feel provides a better experience when working, launching applications and arranging your personal workspace. Other notable improvements for desktop usage include: Software can be run on a separate graphics card by right-clicking and selecting the appropriate option; the ability to mute notifications by selecting Do not disturb, which will appear as a separate button in the notification; each screen can use a different refresh rate; the Activities program allows you to group application icons into folders using a drag-and-drop method; fractional display scaling." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes.
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Development, unannounced and minor bug-fix releases
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| Torrent Corner |
Weekly Torrents
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- Total data uploaded: 42.3TB
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| Upcoming Releases and Announcements |
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Summary of expected upcoming releases
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| Opinion Poll (by Jesse Smith) |
Customizing desktop themes
In this week's Questions and Answers column we talked about transferring the visual theme of one distribution to another. Some people leave their desktop theme as its default, others like to adjust themes - tweaking colours, button positions, and icon sets. Do you like to customize your desktop or leave it as your distribution's developers intended?
You can see the results of our previous poll on using the Nix package manager in last week's edition. All previous poll results can be found in our poll archives.
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Do you customize your desktop theme?
| Yes - I change a lot: | 663 (36%) |
| Yes - I usually change a little: | 639 (35%) |
| No - I leave the defaults alone: | 221 (12%) |
| Maybe - It depends how good the defaults are: | 324 (18%) |
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| Website News |
New distributions added to database
Peropesis
Peropesis (personal operating system) is a small-scale, minimalist, command-line-based Linux operating system. It's an incomplete system, but it's constantly being improved. Also, it is a free operating system created from free software, mostly distributed under the GNU GPL or BSD licenses.
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New distributions added to waiting list
- AmOs. AmOs is an Arch Linux based distribution which features the Xfce desktop, the Calamares system installer, and several desktop themes. The distribution also offers support for third-party NVIDIA and AMD video drivers at install time.
- AgarimOS. AgarimOS is a Void-based Linux distribution which includes tools to connect to mobile cell networks.
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DistroWatch database summary
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| • Issue 1038 (2023-09-25): Mageia 9, trouble-shooting launchers, running desktop Linux in the cloud, New documentation for Nix, Linux phasing out ReiserFS, GNU celebrates 40 years |
| • Issue 1037 (2023-09-18): Bodhi Linux 7.0.0, finding specific distros and unified package managemnt, Zevenet replaced by two new forks, openSUSE introduces Slowroll branch, Fedora considering dropping Plasma X11 session |
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Rescatux
Rescatux is a Debian-based GNU/Linux live distribution that includes a graphical wizard for rescuing broken GNU/Linux installations. The available rescue options include restoring the GRUB bootloader after a Windows installation, Linux and Windows password resets, and Linux file system checks.
Status: Dormant
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