EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.0 released

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 19, 2024,
updated Jul 07, 2024

EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.0 is released. This is the first of the Scarthgap-series; a whole new ball game! There is also a new desktop theme:

...the wallpaper is a photo taken with my phone, south of Perth in Western Australia.

The packages in 6.0 were compiled in OpenEmbedded (OE) Scarthgap-release, with my "meta-quirky" layer. The Scarthgap release of OE/Yocto is a new LTS series, supported until April 2028. See their announcement.

My meta-quirky layer adds an additional approximately 240 package build recipes, not in the official OE/Yocto project, as well as many patches for the official build recipes.

EasyOS 6.0 continues the practice of including a very large number of packages built-in, including Celluloid, Chromium, Dia, Flowblade, Geany, Gimp, Gparted, Grisbi, Inkscape, LibreOffice, NoteCase, Osmo, Planner, SolveSpace, Symphytum, as well as myriad smaller applications and utilites.

Read on

Update

Follow-up:

• More buglets fixed in EasyOS 6.0

  This is what happens when there is a major new release version; we get it out there with lots of users, and discover bugs. I posted a couple of days ago about a XKB Configuration Manager bug:

  • XKB Configuration Manager bug — June 19, 2024

  Here are some more...

  1. clang
  With the devx SFS loaded, clang seemed to be broken. Wasn't sure what was wrong; anyway, compiled llvm/clang 18.1.5 in a running EasyOS 6.0 and created a PET package. This will be in the next devx, instead of the package compiled in OE.

And more:

• Yet more buglets fixed in EasyOS 6.0

  Gee, they are really coming out of the woodwork. Blog post yesterday:

  • More buglets fixed in EasyOS 6.0 — June 22, 2024

  Continuing...

• Some more fixes

  Continuing finding and fixing bugs.

  8. pup_event AppInfo.xml syntax error
  Fixed. See: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=123975#p123975

  9. Xarchive
  /files and /files/downloads group getting changed. See: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=124006#p124006

  10. ffmpeg
  pulseaudio dependency missing. See: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=124025#p124025

  Getting ready to release 6.0.2   
  

• EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.0.2 released

  Lots of bug fixes. Please read the 6.0 announcement for more details about this new series:

  • EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.0 released — June 18, 2024

  Release notes for 6.0.2:

  https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/6.0.2/release-notes.htm

  https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/6.0.2/

  NLUUG mirror:

  https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewforum.php?f=63   

More bugfixes:

• EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.0.4 released

  Versions 6.0 and 6.0.2 were released recently:

  • EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.0.2 released — June 24, 2024

  There has been a feverish pace of development, finding and fixing bugs, improvements, new packages. Read the release notes:

  https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/6.0.4/release-notes.htm

  Claws Mail email client (also bogofilter) and StreamTuner2 streaming audio browser are now builtin. However, not sure if will keep StreamTuner2 builtin, as there are other, simpler and smaller, contenders -- let me know what you think. Even if not builtin, it will still be available and installable via PKGget.