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rufwoof · Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 3545

Just to report that tmux from ...
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1002738#1002738 seems to work well under the latest EasyOS version. I also install mc from petget as a terminal/cli file manager and text editor.

Setting things to log into to the Easy Container and then Ctrl-Shift to disable alt-F6 switching to the main/real root desktop and instead running all root commands from root/cli (I like to use ctrl-alt-F3 for root/cli) works well.

For absolutely necessary root/windows gui actions you can run those from the console/cli for example

DISPLAY=:1 leafpad

from root/cli to fire up a (real root) leafpad window on the Easy containers gui desktop. That does however become insecure so best if no other Easy container windows, in particular browser, are running at that time.

With a reasonable tput based (textual/cli) menu, much of the root actions you might normally use in the main (real root) session can be replicated under ctrl-alt-F3 root/cli (console).

rufwoof · Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 3545

Just to highlight the insecurities of running real root X programs/windows alongside user or less secure windows (browsers etc.), here (attached image) note how with a real root window present on the Easy containers desktop, a easy container program such as sakura can detect that, and stuff commands into it (for simplicity I used xdotool to do that).

rufwoof · Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 3545

Start audacious

View Visualisations and add the Blur visualisation, click its top panel and select the Dock Left option and it docks OK.

Repeat for another visualisation and audacious crashes.

I usually activate and dock all three of the available visualisations.

BarryK · Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2019, 07:39 Post subject:

@rufwoof,
Thanks for your reports. Yes, I do need to think some more about ratcheting-up the security. That is on the to-do list.

Right now, I am working on something else: out-of-the-box non-English support.

See this post:

http://bkhome.org/news/201901/non-english-builds-of-easyos.html

Releasing a ready-to-go non-English build of Easy is real nice for users. Also, it is good for containers -- currently, that is a difficult situation.

I am building the non-English Easy distro in WoofE, with the langpack built-in. So, running in containers is fully translated.

Otherwise, if the langpack is a PET, it would have to be installed in each container. It could be an SFS instead, but there are still problems.

Building language-specific EasyOSs does mean a lot of extra uploads, if I have say, several of them, but these days I have a 4G plan with unlimited data.

This is quite exciting.

One thing, the test German build of Easy still had LibreOffice displaying in English. So I am compiling it again, with support for all languages.

BarryK · Posted: Thu 10 Jan 2019, 21:29 Post subject:

EasyOS version 0.9.18 is released, see blog announcement:

http://bkhome.org/news/201901/easyos-0918-with-german-build.html

The really exciting thing is that there is a German build, ready-to-go (almost) fully translated.

Earlier post, with photos:

http://bkhome.org/news/201901/non-english-builds-of-easyos.html

Download:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/pyro/0.9.18/

Stay tuned, more languages expected very soon.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5488 Location: GB

Thanks for the .iso!
It's not the German, or other, versions that are of concern but the alleged 'English' variety with all the American allusions and defaults, not least the locales - most would be happy to see Perth/Oz as defaults, recognising the talents of the inventor! Not as if the Yanks invented computers or coding, even....
Babbage, Ada, Turing, Flowers, & co...

BarryK · Posted: Fri 11 Jan 2019, 20:35 Post subject:

A Portuguese (pt) build of EasyOS 0.9.18, see blog post:

http://bkhome.org/news/201901/easyos-0918-portuguese-build.html

Robert (forum member robwoj44) has expressed an interest in doing some pt translating. He explained that he doesn't come to the Puppy Forum much these days, but it is great that he will have some input.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 3680 Location: Ontario Canada

.
I downloaded easy-0.9.18-de-amd64.img.gz and easydd, I used the command
"sudo sh easydd easy-0.9.18-de-amd64.img.gz" (from Manjaro).
Drive a: is the hard drive, and I thought the flash drive would be drive b:
(Sandisk Ultra usb 3.0) but it turned out that drive b: was the empty
SD card reader and the flash drive was drive c:
I installed to drive c:, when easy booted drive c: had become drive b:

On first boot I changed to U.S. english, saw a message that it would be
english after rebooting and it was.

I think I'll give easy a rest for a few releases and give it another try
at that point.

Thanks.

BarryK

BarryK · Posted: Sat 12 Jan 2019, 00:29 Post subject:

Here is a French build:

http://bkhome.org/news/201901/easyos-0918-french-build.html

petihar · Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 362

BarryK · Posted: Sun 13 Jan 2019, 06:23 Post subject:

And more!

http://bkhome.org/news/201901/easyos-0918-polish-build.html

http://bkhome.org/news/201901/easyos-0918-spanish-build.html

These have UI translation for SeaMonkey, but it has to be manually enabled. The Mozilla developers have made it more difficult to get the language translation extension to be enabled automatically. Will keep trying.

I you start "seamonkey" in a terminal, you will see the message:

Rodney Byne · Joined: 31 Jan 2014 Posts: 226

In trying to get accustomed to v18, it seems like the desktop container
system needs more work.

Default SfsGet delivers Firefox ok.
In container system, SfsGet looks as if it wants to download Firefox
while showing the orange % progress banner, but doesn't actually install.
Same thing with Chromium. Is this right or wrong?
If SfsGet is supposed to provide working s/w in this mode, then it isn't doing its job.

Also the package manager downloads a critically out of date Firefox 42.9esr.
Regards.

Gyle · Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Posts: 115 Location: Fr

For those who are concerned:
I just discovered some comments from BK on a thread specialized in translations

1 I destroyed the translation files, I made in a hurry just to bring help, so as not to interfere with musher0's, just in case, hoping for normal relations in the near future between him and BK. He is far better than me, a true bilingual, I sometimes read his posts.

2 Between musher0, belham2, and myself there is no relationship at all, Edit : I'm totally unknown to each other,Edit : I have never communicated with each other in any way, so there can be no rivalry, discussion, dispute of any kind in the past or present. They can confirm this.
EDIT: ooops ! sorry for belham2 and musher0, I don't know nothing about their relations

3 Not too seriously, when there's somewhere a mess, there's always a messiah.

Good night, janv 13, 21:12, it's time for me to drill in the political messes.