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EasyOS Excalibur-series 7.3.4 and EasyOS Development News
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Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.3.4 released
Another one! Changes since 7.3.3: [...]
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Barry Kauler ☛ Year-2028 fix for mkisofs in cdrtools
See recent post about compiling 'cdrtools', which is now in
Forum member FeodorF reported a date problem reached in 2028:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=170622#p170622
This site has the fix for 'genisoimage' the GPL version of 'mkisofs': [...]
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Barry Kauler ☛ Delete .a library files in devx SFS
In woofQ2, the EasyOS build system, the script woofq2/rootfs/3create-devx-sfs creates the devx SFS. The latest is 'devx_7.3.4_amd64.sfs'. Due to more rigorous finding of "-dev" packages to match those builtin in 'easy.sfs', the devx SFS has grown in size, from 553MB in Easy 7.3.3, to 689MB in Easy 7.3.4
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Barry Kauler ☛ Xdialog GUI for shell scripts updated
EasyOS is using a very old version of Xdialog, 2.3.1, compiled in OpenEmbedded Scarthgap. There are a couple of git sites that continue to maintain Xdialog: [...]