EasyOS 5.6.6, mdview, and OpenEmbedded Updates
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Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.6.6 released
Yes, but not yet uploaded. Uploading to ibiblio.org is currently broken! I reported this in an earlier blog post:
https://bkhome.org/news/202401/mdview-markdown-viewer-updated.html
Hopefully it will be fixed on Monday. Anyway, here is the announcement...
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Barry Kauler ☛ mdview markdown viewer updated
Forum member jamesbond is the developer of mdview. Here is his original documentation in 2015:
https://www.lightofdawn.org/blog/?viewDetailed=00141
Forum member don570 informed me that EasyOS has a very old version. Yes, James has been updating it, and the latest is using gtk3. I downloaded the 2023.12.12 source tarball, with the intention of compiling it in OpenEmbedded.
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Barry Kauler ☛ mdview update compiled in OpenEmbedded
Continuing from the post earlier today:
mdview version 2023.12.12 has been compiled in OpenEmbedded and will appear in the next release of EasyOS, Kirkstone-series. That will be 5.6.6 and probably will be uploaded in a few days.
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Barry Kauler ☛ MSCW not run at first bootup
In a pristine new install of EasyOS, at first bootup the MSCW (Multiple Sound Card Wizard) runs.
MSCW is supposed to enable you to select between different audio interfaces, unmute and set the level; however, some people have reported that it messes up the sound, that is, sound does not work until after a lot of messing around.
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Barry Kauler ☛ Tweak Kirkstone package db format
The "Puppy package database" format goes right back to the early days of Puppy, and still used in EasyOS. This is what 'petget' and 'PKGget' (PPM) understand. For a pup built with, say, Debian .deb packages, the Debian package database is converted to Puppy-db format.