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EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.0 (UPDATED)

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 26, 2023,

updated Feb 28, 2023

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I started work on the Kirkstone-series early in December 2022. There have been two Release Candidates, discussed in this forum thread: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8072 I also receive feedback via direct email. Finally looking OK, so version 5.0 is now out. Here is a summary...

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UPDATE

On SFSget:

The power of SFSget and Easy Containers

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There is lots of documentation, and SFSget and Easy Containers have a tutorial page:

https://easyos.org/user/using-easy-containers.html

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...which I see does need a bit of updating. For example, although apps run as "crippled root" in a container, there is now the option of running as user "spot".

There is quite a lot of documentation, but it can be tedious to trawl through. And if you are a newcomer to EasyOS, some features might not be apparent.

=> ↺ https://easyos.org/user/using-easy-containers.html

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