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Quirky Xerus 8.6 (Aug. 16), Beaver 8.7.1 (Sept. 21), 2018

#1 Post by BarryK »

Quirky Linux project is now retired

See blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201812/quirky-li ... tired.html

Quirky Beaver 8.7.1 64-bit
Released September 21, 2018

Blog announcement and download links:
http://bkhome.org/news/201809/quirky-be ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 53#1005353

Quirky Beaver 8.7 64-bit
Released September 19, 2018

Blog announcement and download links:
http://bkhome.org/news/201809/quirky-be ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 45#1005045

2018-08-16: Quirky Xerus64 8.6

Blog announcement and d/l links:
http://bkhome.org/news/201808/quirky-xe ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts on page 53:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 42#1002242

2018-02-27: Quirky Xerus64 8.5 released

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http://bkhome.org/news/201802/quirky-xe ... eased.html

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http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 243#984243

2018-02-09: Xerus64 8.4 released
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http://bkhome.org/news/201802/quirky-xe ... eased.html

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http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 545#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. ... 279#962279

2017-07-19: xerus x86_64 8.2 final released
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http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00609

Forum feedback for 8.2 starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 202#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. ... 658#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. ... 351#939351

2016-12-25: Xerus 8.1.5
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http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00482

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http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 918#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. ... &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/quirky ... erus-7.90/

Not yet at Nluug, but the files should turn up here sometime:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/quir ... /releases/

Readme file:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... s-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!
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#2 Post by Sage »

Will there be an .iso?

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#3 Post by linuxcbon »

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
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#4 Post by linuxcbon »

Sage wrote:Will there be an .iso?
you beat me to it. :lol:

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#5 Post by BarryK »

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*
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linuxcbon wrote: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 ?
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.
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#7 Post by BarryK »

linuxcbon wrote:Notice in ppm :
grep: unrecognized option `--file=
busybox uses "grep -f FILE" instead
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.
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linuxcbon wrote:Did you try minimal busybox mdev ? I use it everyday.
i looked at it sometime ago, not interested.
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BarryK wrote:
linuxcbon wrote:Did you try minimal busybox mdev ? I use it everyday.
i looked at it sometime ago, not interested.
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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#10 Post by linuxcbon »

BarryK wrote: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.
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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#11 Post by mda »

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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#12 Post by linuxcbon »

BarryK wrote: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.
Bugzilla for reporting bugs in busybox
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linuxcbon wrote:
BarryK wrote:
linuxcbon wrote:Did you try minimal busybox mdev ? I use it everyday.
i looked at it sometime ago, not interested.
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.
Udev is needed, for many reasons.
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mda wrote: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!
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.
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#15 Post by BarryK »

For anyone who doesn't have a 8GB or bigger Flash stick, I have uploaded a 4GB image file.
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#16 Post by ETP »

Hi Barry & thanks for your latest beta.

For an initial quick test I installed the 8GB image to a USB3 stick.

Background info:
  • Window Manager: JWM vgit-976
    Desktop Start: xwin jwm

    Kernel: Linux 4.4.7 (x86_64)
    X.Org X Server 1.18.3

    Bash: 4.3.0
    Geany: 1.24.1
    Gtkdialog: 0.8.4
    Perl: 5.22.1
    Python: 2.7.11+
    Yad: 0.27.0
    busybox: 1.24.1
    dhcpcd: 6.6.2
    Glibc: 2.23
    OpenSSL: 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016, built on: reproducible build, date unspecified
    wpa_supplicant: 2.4
The initial boot was problem free with working audio & ethernet via DHCP.
Having increased the DPI to 102 I found that the JWM Configuration Manager/Tray management could not be
used to change the Tray Height from 28 and had to alter it manually. That did work in Werewolf.

Another issue is the following errors in the xerrs.log - font cache update issue???

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X.Org X Server 1.18.3
Release Date: 2016-04-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.13.0-85-generic x86_64 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux puppypc4879 4.4.7 #1 SMP Wed Apr 13 08:43:11 GMT-8 2016 x86_64
Kernel command line: root=PARTUUID=DAAAF685-3019-4D9B-9EBC-88508AA66891 rootwait rw BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz 
Build Date: 07 April 2016  09:18:50AM
xorg-server 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2 (For technical support please see http://www.ubuntu.com/support) 
Current version of pixman: 0.33.6
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Apr 14 14:16:16 2016
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
resize called 1920 1080
/usr/bin/jwm
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2028
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2029
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfff9
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffa
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffb
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2028
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2029
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfff9
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffa
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffb
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2028
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2029
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfff9
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffa
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffb
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2028
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2029
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfff9
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffa
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffb
6521
EXIT="Exit on timeout"
So far I have only installed Google Chrome Version 50.0.2661.75 (64-bit) which is working well with
sandboxing disabled.
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#17 Post by linuxcbon »

Is it possible to have an iso ? or maybe a 2GB image (maybe barebone).

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#18 Post by Billtoo »

I tried to install the 32gb image to 2 different flash drives that
claim to be 32gb but they wouldn't boot.
I installed the 16gb image to one of the 32gb flash drive and it
works, made the remainder of the drive ext4 to store files on.

No devx pet yet?

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Celeron(R) 2957U @ 1.40GHz
Memory 1904MB (242MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Quirky Xerus64
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Thu Apr 14 12:47:15 2016
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
Audio Adapter USB-Audio - Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro

That's it so far.
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#19 Post by Puppus Dogfellow »

Quirky Xerus mirrored

checksums:

md5
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a825e34503b4645ff12ec197496480a3 xerus64-7.90-32gb.img.xz
7125ac61f9104bd9801df45994701c55 xerus64-7.90-4gb.img.xz
11510c208b9721f1978914eb965d54cb xerus64-7.90-8gb.img.xz

sha1
51556aebce92619acb35e4161410dd329846b058 xerus64-7.90-16gb.img.xz
de28fd27b1340a95b0e3f140d4d3b66062b5ec0f xerus64-7.90-32gb.img.xz
493dfa4662b1829484330bbe5326a31bf052ada9 xerus64-7.90-4gb.img.xz
cd7c5faba53e01b505be5670756066936678e856 xerus64-7.90-8gb.img.xz

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#20 Post by gcmartin »

Testing on an Intel P4 w/5GB RAM. Minor issues in this post; some of which you may have already addressed.

Downloaded and installed using dd v8.21. I downloaded your 4GB upload and installed to an 8GB stick. This was done to insure the 4GB image would install to larger stick and boot without issues. Before the 4GB image was installed to the stick, all contents were erased from the stick. Thus the install process was started on a MSDOS partition-table stick with NO partitions defined. After installation, the stick looks like this in GParted:
Image

Request
When this message surfaces in GParted for viewing the stick, What do you advise community members to do? Should they "fix" or should they "ignore"?
ImageImage

Booted with no issues to desktop. Time to desktop was about 1.5 minutes. I filled FirstRUN as follows:Image

Open JWM manager to configure minor changes. Got an error on one of JWM's feature shown as follows:Image

On another of JWM issue, although this being old problem, it does NOT reflect the current taskbar Window status reporting 1x1 when it should show OOTB status of 1x3. 1x1 shown as follows against the desktop's backdrop:
Image

Next, free command was reviewed to get a RAM use gauge. Each of the following shows report.

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# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4823992     256384    4567608       5476        232     175236
-/+ buffers/cache:      80916    4743076
Swap:      4235672          0    4235672
Taken immediately following FirstRUN
Later:

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# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4823992     259860    4564132       5720        232     177140
-/+ buffers/cache:      82488    4741504
Swap:      4235672          0    4235672
Taken after errors in JWM taskbar changes
SAMBA was started for all of the shares that the HDD provides for LAN users. "smbclient" utility is available and working now:

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# smbclient -V
Version 4.3.6-Ubuntu
# samba -V
Version 4.3.6-Ubuntu
Mount command in Xerus works for accessing remote shares from LAN, as well:

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# mount //myNAS21/ISO-downloads /mnt/NAS21/Downloads
Password for root@//myNAS21/ISO-downloads:
# 
I am also able to access this Xerus PC's shares from other LAN devices.

All seems to be operating without crashes, thus far. Using SeaMonkey to report these from the Xerus desktop.

@BarryK, might you consider @01Micko's LAN taskbar facility where a mouse-over shows the current IP of this PC?

Any additional specifics you would want, request them and I will attempt testing.
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