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Running frugal install of Easy OS.

Recently I came to know about Easy OS, a Linux distribution developed by Barry Kauler who developed Puppy Linux and gave it to community. I downloaded the .img...

Never mind. I was happy to receive a reply to my Endless OS thread and I am a fan of Puppy Linux and Barry too, Didn't know about this current venture of Barry and thanks for that.

I It seems this OS is like Puppy Linux. Can I have frugal install of Easy OS like I have fossapup_64?

Endless OS was running with gnome 3.38 for a long time. Now it is updated to Endless OS 5.0.0 with gnome 41.3 on Wayland. For the first time it has multiple work spaces and gesture support like swipe...

Thanks. When you download and extract you automatically become the owner of the Firefox folder and the files. Although you move the folder to /opt using sudo you still own the folder and the files.
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Actually Firefox insalled in /opt updates automatically. I just showed you how. By the way I am using Ubuntu since version 5.04 and used to have /opt version of Firefox and many other apps because...

APT does not know about Firefox installed in /opt for APT Fireofox does not exist on the system so it can't update. By the way I have disabled installation of any snap package and snapd.
create a...

Yes I know but kept the step in case you decide to keep both versions of Firefox.

It updates through Help/About_Firefox.


When you download Firefox from Mozilla it is not .deb but...

I installed Ubuntu 22.04 and liked it except slow opening of Firefox. I downloaded Firefox from Mozilla and installed it in /opt and created a simlink in /usr/bin

$ sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox...

I know it is available on Xfce Desktop since I have Manjaro Xfce on one partition.

My post is for Ubuntu users who are missing the Slideshow on Screensaver since Ubuntu adopted gnome desktop and...

Since you are using mkusb the better thread to post this problem is this thread which is handled by the creator of mkusb.

Kamalakar

One of my close friend likes to see Photos Slideshow on Screensaver and therefore uses old versions of Ubuntu. I have big collection of photos on my Laptop and thought why not try it on the brand new...

Your script to automatically write the file 30_live_mode.conf is not working on Xubuntu.

I created the file manually on Xubuntu and it works.

Kamalakar

Downloaded and installed mkusb version 12.7.4 on Ubuntu 20.04, made new persistent usb using dus and tested. It works for me as well. Thank you for releasing this mkusb version just in time for...

I submitted a Bug Report with workaround on Launchpad:
Firefox fails to start in Ubuntu 22.04 Live USB persistent on reboot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/apparmor/+bug/1969486


Kamalakar

The show must go on, I have found a workaround!

In Live Persistent mode:
$ sudo mkdir /lib/systemd/system/apparmor.service.d

to create a directory apparmor.service.d in /lib/systemd/system/
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I made new usb using updated Jammy daily iso and first booted without persistence. Firefox was working fine.
I installed the system on another usb and checked the installed system on many reboots...

Standard Ubuntu but it is happening on Lubuntu as well


dus the version is latest on Ubuntu 20.04


I don't intend to install on hard drive, I tried installing on another USB but the...

I made usb using Jammy Jellyfish daily iso with persistence. I could run firefox on first boot but when rebooted saving settings firefox didn't open. I tried opening through terminal
$ firefox...

Thanks. It works.

Kamalakar

The command I use is as per this help page and it works.

By the way I downloaded Ubuntu 22.04 Beta iso and it does not boot and gives same error.

Kamalakar

I am trying to boot Ubuntu 22.04 jammy-desktop-amd64.iso by inserting following menu in /etc/grub.d/40_custom
menuentry "Jammy Jellyfish Desktop iso" {
set...

By default Puppy Linux runs in RAM. Remember to append pfix=nocopy to linux command if you plan to add big programs like I wanted gnucash & libreoffice. Initially I tried Ubuntu default gnucash 3.8...

Last time I used Puppy Linux was in Jan 2008 (Puppy 4.0). Afterwards Puppy Linux was being built in many flavours one of them built software repos from Ubuntu for apps. Then came UEFI and I thought...

I wrote "On last page when you click to download the output JSON file it says "Download failed". Question is how to make it work and download the output file which is the purpose of the utility.

I...