EasyOS version 2.3.2, June 22, 2020

[mmzcaxe]

@mmzcaxe

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dmesg

in console and look for something with 'wifi' in the output.
or do

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dmesg | grep wifi

to get less output.
You should find something about iwlwifi-6000 for your gc. Look what versions your init/kernel is looking for and go google it on the internet. You must find it in the repo's of debian or ubuntu for sure.
Just drop it then in /lib/firmware/ and restart.

thx very much! i copy iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode to /lib/firmware/
restart , the network wifi is ok!

[Horst_h]

Hello,

I'm using a Ryzen 5 1600 CPU and only 8 core are reported and the

Processors
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor 1375,00MHz
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor 1374,00MHz
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor 1375,00MHz
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor 1374,00MHz
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor 1372,00MHz
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor 1374,00MHz
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor 1356,00MHz
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor 1361,00MHz

The system is often laggy.
mozilla uses now 25%, what for, only this site is opened?
1 Mb/s is transmitted both TX/RX ???

I stop this...

[linuxcbon]

Hi,
firefox should really be the default browser, because it's the fastest with google chrome.
See this :
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=113644
Cheers

[Cu Chulinux]

@linuxcbon

Speed is not the only criterion when choosing your browser. I NEVER use firefox anymore on Windows for example. Why, you ask? I have done memory use tests and Firefox is the biggest memory hog of the 10-12 browsers I tested. I didn't test chrome because I philosophically refuse to use a browser that Google tried to cram down my throat some years ago. I did however test a number of blink-based windows browsers (and in fact use one regularly). All used less memory than Firefox - even Vivaldi.

Because I only use Windows on my work computer where I have no choice, and because I have to use an even bigger memory hog for my job called Solid Works, memory is very much a major factor in my browser decision. I need all the memory I can get for Solid Works. Firefox is just not acceptable.

The best for memory on Windows that I found? K-Meleon (gecko), SeaMonkey (gecko), and Slimjet (blink). Slimjet is available for linux. K-Meleon is not.

Ironically, one of the best for memory on Windows is one of the worst for security - IE. (Note this was on Win 7 and I am aware that IE uses shared dll's with the OS).

[linuxcbon]

I have done memory use tests and Firefox is the biggest memory hog of the 10-12 browsers I tested. I didn't test chrome because I philosophically refuse to use a browser that Google tried to cram down my throat some years ago. I did however test a number of blink-based windows browsers (and in fact use one regularly). All used less memory than Firefox - even Vivaldi.

Tell me how you test memory usage of different browsers in puppy linux.

Can you do the tests please and show them here with all the numbers and how to reproduce the tests , so we can test it too ?

Thanks in advance

[BarryK]

I am lagging behind with reading the posts in this forum thread. Will catchup soon.

I have got Flatpaks to work in Easy, see these posts:

http://bkhome.org/news/201806/testing-f ... asyos.html

http://bkhome.org/news/201806/auto-gene ... -pair.html

I was thinking, along the top of the screen there is "petget" and "sfsget" icons. Maybe "petget" (which launches the PPM), could be replaced with "appget", which will be a GUI for installing (and updating) Flatpaks.

The PPM would still be available in the menu.

It would be convenient, as all the major apps are available as Flatpaks, and can easily be updated.

[Cu Chulinux]

Re: browser memory usage.

The memory tests were done in windows, not linux.

I started windows (V7). I started the resource manager, which displays used RAM at the bottom of its window. I let the computer settle until RAM was not changing. I recorded that value and started a browser (each browser was initially set to open only to default start page with no add-ons). I again let the RAM value settle to where it was not changing. I then quit the browser and recorder the free ram after closing and settling.

I repeated this for each browser, then repeated again and loaded a representative set of windows that I would typically have open at work.

Then I compared the values of RAM. Interestingly enough none went back to the same value before starting and after closing. They probably started some windows service or library it required which was then left in RAM. Or they were just really bad at releasing memory.

Sample data (renderer in brackets): value is used memory increase

Firefox (Quantum v59)
initial start +388Mb, after quit +60Mb, with pages +1000Mb
Firefox (Gecko v58)
initial start +275Mb, after quit +11Mb, with pages +634Mb
SeaMonkey (Gecko)
initial start +104Mb, after quit +3Mb, with pages +275Mb
Slimjet (Blink)
initial start +79Mb, after quit +1Mb, with pages +364Mb

As you can see both Slimjet and SeaMonkey used less RAM with six pages loaded than Firefox Quantum did with only initial startup page.

Of course this all could be completely different on linux, or even on another Win 7 computer. These are specific to my computer and its setup. Comparing SeaMonkey and Firefox on Easy using top the ram usages were pretty comparable. That doesn't tell me how much free ram drops using one or the other though.

Not the most scientific of tests but something I could probably repeat in linux. Not in Easy though as number of browsers is limited. I could install others from source but I just don't have the time for that kind of investment. There are a couple that run as an appimage but they have a whole other set of overhead involved.

[Cu Chulinux]

Re: Flatpaks

That sounds really interesting Barry. I'll have to look at what Flatpaks are all about.

[BarryK]

Now have flatpaks working out-of-the-box, but commandline only so far:

http://bkhome.org/news/201806/easyos-bu ... ake-1.html

[BarryK]

Re: Flatpaks

That sounds really interesting Barry. I'll have to look at what Flatpaks are all about.

An overview is here:

http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/introduction.html

The main repo, with hundreds of apps:

https://flathub.org/home

This is a quick way of getting a complete app repo for Easy. Mostly it will make the PPM redundant, but not entirely.

[scsijon]

Barry,
Can we have hplip updated to at least 3.18.4 if not 3.18.6 (the latest) please, there's quite a few additions and 64bit fixes between 3.12.6 (in easy pyro) and the 3.18 stream (not all of them are listed in the general release notes either).

thanks

[BarryK]

Barry,
Can we have hplip updated to at least 3.18.4 if not 3.18.6 (the latest) please, there's quite a few additions and 64bit fixes between 3.12.6 (in easy pyro) and the 3.18 stream (not all of them are listed in the general release notes either).

thanks

I am planning to update lots of packages in my fork of OpenEmbedded, especially video, and do a complete recompile. Will update hplip as well.

Hopefully within the next couple of weeks.

[tigs]

ever since version 0.9.1, I have been unable to get it to work nvidia quadro K2200 graphic card any more. Is there any way I can fix it myself?

So far, I am still stuck with 0.9 modesetting version. The other two versions of 0.9 do not work either.

[BarryK]

Ho hum, nothing much happening. Lots of things on the to-do list, however, yesterday I bought a 4TB hard drive, and started copying from my main work drive. 30 hours later, still waiting...

My midi-tower had a 1TB internal drive, and I have been using an external USB 4TB as the main work drive. Convenient, as I can plug it into different computers.

However, it is a bit slow running through the USB, hence the purchase.

I am surprised that it has taken this long. There is about 2.6TB of files on the drive.

After the copy, I will use rsync to keep them synced.

[BarryK]

Progress report:

Have updated many packages in my fork of OpenEmbedded, did a complete compile overnight, and imported the binary packages, 724 of them (full packages, not split) into woofQ.

See blog post:

http://bkhome.org/news/201806/packages- ... y-src.html

The intention now is to get back to developing EasyPak, my idea for universal packages.

[Billtoo]

I originally installed to a 32gb flash drive and used it on a pc with
intel graphics.
I have moved the flash drive to a pc that was using an Nvidia graphics
card which I removed, it is now using the built-in intel graphics:

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Sat 23 Jun 2018 on Easy Pyro64 0.9.4 Linux 4.14.44 x86_64
2.0 VGA compatible controller:
Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
oem: Intel(R) Sandybridge/Ivybridge Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R) Sandybridge/Ivybridge Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.19.1
dimensions: 1600x900 pixels (423x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Desktop
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 17.0.7

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3550 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Core 0: @1978 1: @2063 2: @2117 3: @1812 MHz

All pets etc. that I installed work fine, the built-in hard drive isn't
accessable but a usb hard drive that I plugged in is.

# mount sda1
mount-FULL: can't find sda1 in /etc/fstab
#

fstab
none /proc proc defaults,noatime 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults,noatime 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=2,mode=620,noatime 0 0
shmfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0

EDIT: Having hardware problems with this pc, using front usb-3.0 ports somehow screws things up.

[BarryK]

I am running EasyOS 0.9.5 right now, will test it a bit more before uploading.

What to expect, well, it is exciting. See these blog posts:

http://bkhome.org/news/201807/improved- ... iners.html

http://bkhome.org/news/201807/petget0-a ... asyos.html

[Cu Chulinux]

Is it still possible to create containers? I'm thinking eg. of the case where you would want online banking to be in a completely separate container from everything else you do online. Refresh that container every time you use it and no worries about other online sessions having access to your banking info.

Also, I have mixed success with sound in containers. Is that still an issue?
Edit: nevermind the sound. Looking back through the posts I now remember it's an issue with my computer, not with Easy. I have to manually point it to correct sound output. With you it's looking back a couple years, with me it's a couple weeks.

[BarryK]

Is it still possible to create containers? I'm thinking eg. of the case where you would want online banking to be in a completely separate container from everything else you do online. Refresh that container every time you use it and no worries about other online sessions having access to your banking info.

Also, I have mixed success with sound in containers. Is that still an issue?
Edit: nevermind the sound. Looking back through the posts I now remember it's an issue with my computer, not with Easy. I have to manually point it to correct sound output. With you it's looking back a couple years, with me it's a couple weeks.

Yes, I am intending to keep the ability to create individual containers for an app.

Having everything in one container is a convenience, very simple, but I appreciate you might want to separate out one app into its own container.

Sound is working in containers for me on my midi-tower PC.

[Cu Chulinux]

Yes sound works in containers here. It requires manual intervention to set up and needs to be done separately for each container. The containers are not carrying over the sound setup from the main os.