Distributions and Operating Systems: EasyOS, Slackware, and More
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Barry Kauler ☛ woofV populated rootfs
Here is the previous post in the woofV project:
https://bkhome.org/news/202402/woofv-populate-rootfs.html
There has been bug-fixing, and now the '5populate-rootfs' script populates the 'rootfs' folder with all packages, with only a few minor errors. This 'rootfs' will become 'easy.sfs' and hence a new release of easyVoid.
The package selection is similar to that in easyVoid 6.0.2 that was released for early pre-alpha testing, see the forum:
...that easyVoid uses PKGget (PPM), not the XBPS package manager.
The big difference now, is have populated 'rootfs' using XBPS. The intention is that PKGget will become a GUI frontend for XBPS -- but that has not yet been implemented.
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Simon Ser ☛ Simon Ser: Status update, February 2024
Hi! February is FOSDEM month, and as usual I’ve come to Brussels to meet with a lot of other FOSS developers and exchange ideas. I like to navigate between the buildings and along the hallways to find nice people to discuss with. This edition I’ve been involved in the new modern e-mail devroom and I’ve given a talk about IMAP with Damian, a fellow IMAP library maintainer and organizer of this devroom. The whole weekend was great!
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Slackware Family
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Eric Hameleers ☛ In the works: LibreOffice 24.2.0 for Slackware 15.0
Apart from post-COVID syndrome there were some other setbacks lately, but those were mostly software-centered. Like the fact that I can not build a 32bit Chromium package for instance. But also the realization that the latest LibreOffice 24.2.0 can no longer be compiled on Slackware 15.0 – its gcc 11.2.0 compiler is considered “too old”.
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