EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.7 released
It has been 7 months since the last announcement on Distrowatch; that was version 5.4. A huge amount of "water under the bridge" since then, and we are now at version 5.7. Certainly, overdue for another Distrowatch announcement.
The release notes from 5.4 to 5.7 can be found here:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2024/5.7/release-notes.htm
Picking through those, some highlights can be listed here. First, however, a general announcement blurb:
EasyOS is an experimental GNU/Linux distribution, that explores several concepts that are unique. EasyOS is standalone, that is, not based on any other distribution, and the Kirkstone-series is built with packages compiled from source in a fork of OpenEmbedded/Yocto. There is a page that itemizes how and why Easy is different from other distributions, here, but very briefly; container-friendly, runs fast in RAM, drive isolation, each app may be set to run as its own user, distributed as a drive-image file only (no ISO), frugal install, snapshot and rollback/forward, four packages managers, pup_event service manager, JWM-ROX desktop, folder encryption, hardware profiling. Also, not unique, but important; support for old computers.