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Easy version upgrade and downgrade| easyos.org
Package manager concepts| easyos.org
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Originally written March 17, 2019, updates March 19, 2020, April 24, 2022 Completely rewritten August 3, 2022. Partial update September 1, 2024 Overview At the time of writing, EasyOS does not have an "GUI installer", as do mainstream Linux OS's. There is one planned; however, it is actually quite easy to do manually, unlike mainstream OS's. There is definite benefit of doing it yourself, instead of being at the mercy of an automatic or semi-automatic installer. There are two steps to install...| EasyOS Home
Original document: March 13, 2019, updated Nov. 24, 2020, Jan. 19, 2021, Apr. 24, 2022 Completely rewritten August 4, 2022. Updated: Nov. 22, 2023. Minor update: July 10, 2024 This page written for EasyOS 4.2.2 or later. Overview EasyOS is downloaded as an image file for a USB-stick, that you can boot on your PC. This will get you up and running with EasyOS; however, you might then want to install Easy to the hard drive in the computer. That is what this page is about. This page focuses on ol...| EasyOS Home
EasyOS was born in January 2017, and since then there have been bits and pieces written here and there about how and why it is different from other Linux distributions. This includes some rather technical descriptions. What is needed is a simple plain-English list, so that anyone can get a quick idea of what EasyOS is all about. So, here goes. Do note, though, that Easy is an experimental distribution, and the features may change, and some features are a work-in-progress. These items are not ...| EasyOS Home
Page created: April 3, 2023 Updated: April 8, 2023. June 11, 2023. August 5, 2023 This page is an overview of packages and package managers; what are the choices, how do the packages install, how do you use them, how to remove. To install or remove a package, click the "pkg" icon on the desktop: This brings up a window offering a choice: ...yes, EasyOS has not just one package manager; Easy has four different package managers: PKGget This is the traditional package manager. Packages are tarba...| EasyOS Home
Page originally written March 13, 2019 Completely rewritten June 29, 2022, for EasyOS version 4.2.2 or later Updated: July 2, 2022; December 31, 2022; June 16, 2023 Updated: June 28, 2023 This page describes how to install EasyOS on an entire drive, completely replacing what was on it before. This can be any drive; SSD or magnetic-platter HDD, internal or external. Also USB flash-sticks or SD-cards. The original case study was install to a SSD in a Mele PCG35 Apo mini-PC, but these instructio...| EasyOS Home
Created: August 12, 2020 Updated: June 14, 2023; June 15, 2023 Making a start on writing this page... EasyOS boots up from a boot-manager, such as Limine, rEFInd or GRUB, which loads the Linux kernel, file 'vmlinuz', and the tiny complete Linux OS into RAM, file 'initrd'. The 'init' script inside 'initrd' is then run, which does a lot of setting-up, especially creating the aufs layered filesystem, consisting of a read-write folder on top and file 'easy.sfs' on the bottom. There is then a swit...| EasyOS Home
Originally posted January 12, 2020. Updated: Feb. 9, 2020. June 11, 2023 It is quite easy to create a complete translation of EasyOS to any desired language. The tool used is MoManager, that was created for Puppy Linux in 2012, and is now used in various derivatives and forks of Puppy, including EasyOS. MoManager is a GUI application, written by Barry Kauler (BarryK in the Puppy Forum). A fork was maintained by Lutz Ulrich (L18L in the forum) and that one is used in the current Puppy Linux. M...| EasyOS Home
Page originally created December 20, 2018 Page updated: November 12, 2022. April 2, 2023. April 8, 2023 How Easy works part-1 is here: https://easyos.org/tech/how-easy-works.html Part-1 examines bootup, until "switch_root". Part-2 continues, from after bootup has completed and we have the desktop. Part-2 is useful from the usage point of view; however, it is worthwhile to scan through part-1 and pick up the salient points. The layered filesystem Recapitulating, here is a visualization from pa...| EasyOS Home
Page originally written September 24, 2017 Partially updated: December 20, 2018 Major update: November 12, 2022 Updated: April 2, 2023. April 8, 2023 EasyOS is a "new paradigm" for a Linux distribution, a blend of the best ideas from Puppy and Quirky, and a fundamental rethink of the security, maintainability and ease-of-use. A good way to explain what Easy is all about, is to follow the user (that's you) experience, from downloading the deployed file, to installing and discovering it's fea...| EasyOS Home
Limine bootloader| easyos.org
Why the ISO format has to die| easyos.org