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Quirky Xerus 8.5 for x86_64, released Feb. 27, 2018
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BarryK
Puppy Master  Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8584 Location: Perth, Western Australia |
2018-02-27: Quirky Xerus64 8.5 released Blog announcement and links: http://bkhome.org/news/201802/quirky-xerus-x8664-version-85-released.html Forum feedback: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=984243#984243 2018-02-09: Xerus64 8.4 released Blog announcement: http://bkhome.org/news/201802/quirky-xerus-x8664-version-84-released.html Feedback starts on page 48: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=982545#982545 2017-07-29: Xerus64 8.3 final released Announcement and download links: http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00630 Forum feedback starts here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=962279#962279 2017-07-19: xerus x86_64 8.2 final released Announcement and download links: http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00609 Forum feedback for 8.2 starts here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=961202#961202 2017-07-13: Xerus x86_64 8.1.94 Announcement and links: http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00593 Feedback starts here in this forum thread: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=960658#960658 2017-01-13: Xerus x86_64 8.1.6 Announcement and links: http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00496 Feedback starts on page 25 of this forum thread: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=939351#939351 2016-12-25: Xerus 8.1.5 Announcement and links: http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00482 Feedback starts on page 21 of this forum thread: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=936918#936918 2016-04-21: Xerus 8.0 final Announcement and links: http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00344 Forum feedback starts on page 8: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=106460&start=105 7.90 beta There doesn't seem to be much wrong with it, but thought I would upload this beta, probably do 8.0, the final, about 21st of April. Download from here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/amd64/releases/xerus-7.90/ Not yet at Nluug, but the files should turn up here sometime: http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/quirky/quirky6/amd64/releases/ Readme file: http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/amd64/releases/xerus-7.90/readme-quirky-xerus-7.90.htm I have found some bugs. One of them is in BluePup, my bluetooth management GUI. When you bring it up, either from menu, click on the icon in tray, or run "bluepup" in a terminal, the "SCAN & PAIR" button needs an adjustment -- click the "edit" button alongside it and change the timeout for "power on" from "10" to "30" (that will be 5 seconds to 15 seconds). One observation: I reported this on my blog. A USB3 Flash stick is much faster than a USB2 Flash stick, even in a USB2 socket! So, to enhance the experience even if your PC only has USB2 sockets, use a USB3 Flash drive. If you want to know what is new and interesting in Quirky Xerus, read through my blog: http://barryk.org/news/?viewCat=Linux Anyway, if anyone wants to play with Quirky Xerus, go for it! _________________ http://bkhome.org/news/ Last edited by BarryK on Tue 27 Feb 2018, 10:11; edited 9 times in total |
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Sage
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5382 Location: GB |
Will there be an .iso? |
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linuxcbon
Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 1175 |
Hi Barry, my old usb stick is only 2GB (LOL). Can you please make an iso version ? (I notice fdisk shows a 512Mb "EFI System" partition to boot ?) You said busybox was buggy, but I use it and replaced all in /bin and /sbin...So what's the problem with "tr" , buggy or missing feature ? Notice in ppm : grep: unrecognized option `--file= busybox uses "grep -f FILE" instead Did you solve the no xorg.conf bug ? I did it with minimal xorg.conf Did you try minimal busybox mdev ? I use it everyday. I also replaced seamonkey with firefox (matter of taste, but also easier to compile and many sites accept it better than seamonkey for compatibility, etc). I am using the compiled version of firefox, with automatic updates. Cheers Last edited by linuxcbon on Thu 14 Apr 2016, 03:36; edited 1 time in total |
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BarryK
Puppy Master Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8584 Location: Perth, Western Australia |
Bug fix. Filesystem check at bootup was missing libf2fs.so.0. Actually, I fixed that before, but the bug came back. That was because I replaced f2fs-tools DEB with my own compiled PET, and the location of the libs became /lib/libf2fs.so* _________________ http://bkhome.org/news/ |
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BarryK
Puppy Master Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8584 Location: Perth, Western Australia |
Busybox has lots of applets that are missing features. Typically, it is source package compile scripts that expect the full versions of utilities. In the case of 'tr', I gave the wrong results when I used octal numbers. For example "\20" is an octal number. I was using a range of octal numbers, something like "[\40-\125]", It output the wrong results, but not even an error message, just the wrong output. The full 'tr' works great. _________________ http://bkhome.org/news/ |
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BarryK
Puppy Master Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8584 Location: Perth, Western Australia |
Quirky uses the full 'grep'. This is another case, the reason I don't recall, where I don't use the applet. But, if the Busybox grep won't accept the full commandline options, that is enough reason not to use it. Busybox is one of those utilities very widely used, and it has to work right in all circumstances. My choices are the outcome of compiling hundreds of source packages and using all kinds of scripts. _________________ http://bkhome.org/news/ |
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BarryK
Puppy Master Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8584 Location: Perth, Western Australia |
i looked at it sometime ago, not interested. _________________ http://bkhome.org/news/ |
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linuxcbon
Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 1175 |
why ? you are wrong...mdev is very good. Works perfectly, extremly fast, takes only 2 lines in sysinit. No udev, no bug, no rules, nothing..Udev too complicated, too buggy, too slow, too big. |
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linuxcbon
Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 1175 |
ok I see. But it's because busybox uses minimal options and not "long" options. But busybox doesnt aim to replace 100% all utilities, only the most used options. Actually, I wish the scripts and the compiling stuff would adapt to busybox, because it's very very standard and very efficient and light and used in embedded systems etc. So it's not only busybox which has to adapt, but others have to make efforts too, otherwise, it would be too easy and nobody would do anything. |
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mda
Joined: 14 Apr 2016 Posts: 2 |
Hi Barry, thank you a lot for the great work you're doing! I'm trying quirky xerus 7.90 from a 16gb usb key on my asus e200ha. Unfortunately, the touchpad doesn't work (it did with ubuntu 16.04 beta). Is there anything I can do to fix this? Thank you very much in advance! |
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linuxcbon
Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 1175 |
Bugzilla for reporting bugs in busybox https://bugs.busybox.net/ |
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BarryK
Puppy Master Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8584 Location: Perth, Western Australia |
Udev is needed, for many reasons. _________________ http://bkhome.org/news/ |
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BarryK
Puppy Master Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8584 Location: Perth, Western Australia |
I have an E200HA also! I thought that the touchpad was working. Hmmm, maybe I changed something that broke it. I have been recompiling the kernel many times, trying different config options. I will investigate. _________________ http://bkhome.org/news/ |
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BarryK
Puppy Master Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8584 Location: Perth, Western Australia |
For anyone who doesn't have a 8GB or bigger Flash stick, I have uploaded a 4GB image file. _________________ http://bkhome.org/news/ |
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