Debian: New Contributors, Bookworm-Based EasyOS

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Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (March and April 2022) [Ed: Debian (which we use on four machines) manages to recruit just one Developer a month. Not enough, DPL admits. Maybe they need better leadership.]
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EasyOS .img file now not compressed
Up until now, EasyOS has been available as a compressed image file, named 'easy-[-]-.img.gz', for example 'easy-3.4.7-amd64.img.gz'.
Internally, it consists of a 1M gap, then a 639M vfat partition, then a 640M ext4 partition, plus another gap on the end, total file size 1281M uncompressed.
Note, these days we have the term "MiB" to denote binary megabytes, 1048576 bytes (1024x1024), instead of 1,000,000 bytes. So, by "M" I actually mean MiB. -
Introducing Easy Bookworm
The Dunfell-series of Easy is built with packages compiled from source. There was an earlier Buster-series, now retired, built with Debian Buster DEBs.
Debian 12 is not scheduled to be released until mid-2023. It is known as the "testing" branch, and will become the "stable" branch when released. It is also known as "Bookworm".
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Kernel 5.15.39 compiled in Easy Bookworm
Partly this was to test that the 'devx' SFS works, and it does.
But also, rufwoof recommended that lz4 be enabled for squashfs in the Linux kernel, as this compression format has very fast decompression. rufwoof's post:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=57205#p57205
The first time that you boot Easy, the QuickSetup window appears. You can also run it anytime via "Setup -> Quicksetup first-run settings" in the menu. In QuickSetup, there is a checkbox labeled "Recompress easy.sfs" -- tick that, and easy.sfs will be changed from xz-compression to gz-compression. This will give faster reading of files from easy.sfs, and you might notice slightly snappier performance on an older computer.
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