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EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0 released
Where to start... compared with prior releases of EasyOS, Easy Excalibur is almost a completely new design. Here is an announcement blurb:
Compared with prior releases of EasyOS, the Excalibur-series is a "whole new ball game". All prior EasyOSs were built with woofQ; Easy Excalibur is built with woofQ2, that is a redesign of woofQ based on Debian's APT underpinning all package management. Easy has PKGget, a package manager GUI, that is able to install all kinds of packages, such as .deb, .txz, .rpm and .pet; that chameleon-like ability is retained, but now PKGget is a wrapper on top of APT. So now PKGget and APT talk to each other, and even if utilities such as 'apt' and 'apt-get' are used in a terminal, it will automatically sync in PKGget.
Easy Excalibur is built with Devuan Excalibur packages, equivalent to Debian 13 Trixie, but without systemd. Instead, EasyOS uses the simple busybox init, enhanced with pup_event service management.
A couple more minor notes:
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Barry Kauler ☛ Easy Excalibur login hang fixed
There have been many weeks of problems with Easy Excalibur hanging/freezing.
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Barry Kauler ☛ Build your own Easy Excalibur with woofQ2
woofQ2 is the new EasyOS build system, replacing woofQ. The latter has been used to build all EasyOS's prior to now, including Easy Daedalus and Easy Scarthgap. woofQ2 is the "new kid on the block" and has been used to build Easy Excalibur; and that is now just about to be released, as version 7.0-final.