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Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 978 Location: Staffordshire

belham2

No, you are not completely doo-lally.
I get the same results when trying to get containers for downloaded apps. Tried Firefox and Mypaint.

BarryK · Posted: Sun 01 Oct 2017, 07:17 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Mon 02 Oct 2017, 18:56 Post subject:

Version 0.5, still pre-alpha, is out, for anyone who is interested:

http://bkhome.org/news/201710/easy-os-version-05-released.html

The upgrade mechanism, that is described in one of the how-easy-works pages, is not yet properly implementable.
So 0.5 has to be treated as a new install.

Some little outstanding issues:

1.
An active ethernet with internet connection, is still not detected automatically at first bootup. SNS has to be run -- though now, reconnect after a reboot should be fixed.

2.
A very minor thing -- at very first startup of SeaMonkey, there is supposed to be a "please wait" popup. That has gone awol.

3.
Text editor geany starts with the sidebar showing. This is not really an issue, except my preference is for it not to show.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5492 Location: Ontario

version 0.4

When I booted up from my USB flash drive
I noticed spelling error on screen while booting.

I see an option to check files ---> filsystem check

should be 'filesystem check'

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Also , when I went to your site http://barryk.org/news/
and clicked for Easy linux news

http://easyos.info/news/ --> I got a 'Not found' error

However the following does work -->http://bkhome.org/news/all_posts.html

I am using windows 7 - firefox browser.
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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5492 Location: Ontario

Here is a fast paint program that is compatible with the wacom graphic tablet.
I compiled it in Xerus 8.2 64 bit, however it works in easy linux because
of similar libraries.

azpainter-64bit-2.1.1.pet
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7JZA8XWblrScXN5X3JwcWlJV00
Size 584kb

peebee · Posted: Tue 03 Oct 2017, 11:43 Post subject:

Easy-0.5 on my desktop with nvidia graphics boots and the desktop appears for a short time but then the signal to the monitor is cut and the monitor goes completely dead!

A message about no text version of xorgwizard being available flashes up briefly during the boot sequence....I think....

I also notice that the Easy folder is not being distributed from ibiblio to the mirror sites - e,g, its not on nluug.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5521 Location: GB

PM sent for PB.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5492 Location: Ontario

I installed Easy Linux 0.5 on a 32 GB USB thumb drive using dd command.
Everything went well. First bootup took several minutes because the partition was resized to 32 GB.
Subsequent boots take about a minute.

First thing I noticed was the audio level was zero. I set the audio level higher with retrovol and checked by playing a video file.
Next I set samba and cron services to startup automatically.
This works properly.
I checked pclock and pschedule and azpainter. They work and their settings
are preserved after a reboot.

Next I checked if I could move a Rox Filer window by selecting 'Move'
with a right click of my mouse on top bar. However it caused xorg to crash (Same behavior as version 0.3) I must type 'xwin' in console to
return to desktop.

But as an experiment I tried doing the same action with my Wacom bamboo tablet stylus (Simulating a right click with the barrel switch)

And to my surprise I could select 'Move' and move the window.
And even more surprising I can now use my wired mouse without
causing a crash!! Even after a reboot my mouse won't cause a crash.

I can only speculate that a file in the rules.d folder is now in control of my mouse
rather than the original driver that is used upon original bootup????
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The negative observations:

1) Audio level is initially zero and possibly muted at first bootup.

2) Simple Samba Management is initially setup to have /file as the share folder. I have to reset this to /root

3) Gadmin Samba program is initially setup to have /home as the share folder. This folder doesn't exist.

4) When I first launch Simple SAMBA management I get a warning that
there has been a change of the smb.conf file even though this is the first launch.
This is confusing.

5)To reuse my samba server after a reboot I find that I have to create a samba user again. I type in terminal

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 1187 Location: UK

Hi Barry,

Thanks for 0.5 which seems to have resolved the bulk of the reported issues.
Install of the image this time, was to a 16GB USB3 stick using 7-Zip and Win32diskimager in Win10.
Initial boot was to desktop on an i5 with Nvidia card. Sound worked but SNS had to be accessed
to setup DHCP. The ethernet connection has since survived reboots.

A possible issue for NVIDIA/nouveau users was the lack of Direct Rendering - i.e. hardware acceleration.
That was also evident in Chrome which I subsequently installed and was resolved using PKGget Package Manager
to install the MESA VDPAU acceleration drivers:

Additional fonts were also installed together with a desktop icon for defaultemail.
Your SFS downloader is a nice touch providing easy access to the devx & kernel_scr(s).

The initial ethernet link detection problem seems to have cropped up across numerous distros
with the later Linux kernels. Here is one such post:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/373852/network-does-not-start-automatically-upon-boot-anymore-link-is-not-ready

Finally the obligatory screenie. Press F11 to toggle into fullscreen then click on link:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B_iVVJCd9q09ck5NWWZiMU1mQVU
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scsijon · Posted: Tue 03 Oct 2017, 18:25 Post subject:

2n3638 · Joined: 27 Dec 2016 Posts: 4

I installed Easy 0.5 with no problem on a Vostro 200 Pentium D machine.
Everything worked including YouTube videos and audio via external
USB DAC.

On my Asus EH200 it booted, but was intermittent and clunky on YouTube.
It also did not reboot, but hung on the attempt.