EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.6.1 released

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 11, 2023,
updated Nov 17, 2023

See announcement:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.6.1/release-notes.htm

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.6.1/

We were discussing Firefox versus Chromium on the forum:

...and Firefox won.

So Easy 5.6.1 has been released with Firefox builtin. I updated from 5.6 on my Lenovo PC, am using  it now, and have made a most unfortunate discovery.

The Firefox window flickers periodically. If I am entering text in a text-entry box, such as posting to the forum, the flicker causes the text-entry box to lose focus, and as I continue typing, the characters no longer go into the text-entry box. Where they go I don't know.

This is a showstopper!!!!

Read on

Bugfix release:

• EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.6.2 released

  Version 5.6.1 has Firefox builtin, but 5.6.2 returns to Chromium. The release notes for 5.6.2:
  

  https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.6.2/release-notes.htm
  

  Reproducing the release notes here, since 5.5.5:
  

  • Chromium 117.0.5938.132 compiled in OE — November 11, 2023
  • Fix for depth limit detection — November 11, 2023
  • EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.6.1 released — November 10, 2023
  • Fixed waiting for kernel video drivers to load — November 10, 2023
  • Automatic NVIDIA SFS updating — November 08, 2023
  • Kernel 5.15.137 and NVIDIA SFS compiled — November 07, 2023
  • EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.6 not quite released — November 06, 2023
  • OpenEmbedded revision-5 build with Firefox — November 03, 2023
  • Kernel 5.15.135 source SFS fixed — October 21, 2023
  • Fix Limine Installer search path — October 15, 2023
  • Fix build-rox-sendto was executing every bootup
  • Fix depth-setting in Easy Version Control link

  Yes, a complete recompile in OpenEmbedded; "revision-5" and Chromium bumped from 116.0.5845.187 to 117.0.5938.132 and the kernel bumped from 5.15.135 to 5.15.137.
  

  In SFSget (see the "pkg" icon on the desktop) there are two NVIDIA SFS files, one of which you can install if you have an NVIDIA GPU and the inbuilt 'nouveau' kernel driver isn't good enough. Note that these NVIDIA SFSs are experimental, so give us feedback on the forum if any issues. Also experimental is the automatic NVIDIA SFS updating when you update to EasyOS versions beyond 5.6.2.
  

Another release:

• EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.6.3 released

  Version 5.6.2 was released on November 12, see blog announcement:

  https://bkhome.org/news/202311/easyos-kirkstone-series-version-562-released.html

• Kernel 5.15.138 compiled and NVIDIA SFSs updated

  Easy 5.6.2 has the 5.15.137 GNU/Linux kernel. I was intending to stay with that kernel version for sometime, as there are inconveniences when bump the kernel. However, forum member don570 reported that some NVIDIA kernel modules are missing: [...]