Hoi, Reneetje!Reneetje wrote:Have made a concept login-screen for accessing Quirky Beaver 8.7.1
It's just a start.
That concept 'login-screen' is uber nice!
Any chance of sharing it (how/what you wrote)?
For those wondering what Sage is saying, it is in response to this:Sage wrote:Shame about the poor DWW review, shame about the poorly informed reviewer, shame about BK's decision. For those who value the speed and universality of the .iso s for diagnosis, repair and demonstration, (such as YT!), almost nothing need change in perpetuity, except remember to remove the RJ45 on old kit before switching on.
That's a pretty big shot across the bow of Fatdog, DebianDogs and Wanderer's latest Corepup, among others.BarryK wrote:Sage wrote:Shame about the poor DWW review, shame about the poorly informed reviewer, shame about BK's decision. For those who value the speed and universality of the .iso s for diagnosis, repair and demonstration, (such as YT!), almost nothing need change in perpetuity, except remember to remove the RJ45 on old kit before switching on.
For those wondering what Sage is saying, it is in response to this:
http://bkhome.org/news/201810/the-end-o ... linux.html
The DW review is not the cause of my decision, it has been a long time coming. My main problem is that my efforts are spread too thin, and I cannot support Quirky properly anymore.
Note however, Quirky is built with woofQ, which also builds EasyOS, and there is no immediate plan to drop the capability of building Quirky. So, someone who wants to create another Quirky-based distro, may do so.
And yes, as Sage laments, the ISO format is not offered by EasyOS. Optical media is a legacy format, rapidly dying. The junk mail in my letterbox has ads for mostly laptops, very few desktop systems, and most of those laptops do not have an optical drive -- I am thinking of a Harvey Norman sale catalog that I looked at recently.
It also greatly simplifies things for me to offer just one download file, an image that can be written to a usb-stick, or directly installed as a frugal installation on a hard drive.
EasyOS is very different from anything else, but I haven't really explained how. Yes, there are some intro pages, but there needs to be a page in plain English, simple point-form. I am writing down those points now, will create that page soon, and there will be new announcements.
Anyway, Quirky, Xerus 8.6 and Beaver 8.7.1 are the end of the line.
Note that /etc/profile loads files in /etc/profile.d/*scsijon wrote:I was chasing a qt5 (which i have installed) problem and after scratching my head I restarted with basics of a shell and a set command.
I found that there was no qt5 settings.
Chasing through a few files I found that the /etc/profile file has settings for qt4 and qt3, but nothing for qt5.
I suspect this will also affect Easy, Xerus and others.
Quickfix is to copy the qt4 part lines 18 to 23 (6 lines from if to fi) and paste/insert it below itself, then change the first 4 to a 5 and path changes which will depend on which you install of course.
No doubt barry will issue a new /etc/profile file in due time as i'm also getting a XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set error so there may also be a few other changes and additions necessary.
Agreed it's there in easy, not my beaver so copied across and removed additions to the /etc/profile so that saves some problems, maybe also transfer a qt4 there?BarryK wrote:Note that /etc/profile loads files in /etc/profile.d/*scsijon wrote:I was chasing a qt5 (which i have installed) problem and after scratching my head I restarted with basics of a shell and a set command.
I found that there was no qt5 settings.
Chasing through a few files I found that the /etc/profile file has settings for qt4 and qt3, but nothing for qt5.
I suspect this will also affect Easy, Xerus and others.
Quickfix is to copy the qt4 part lines 18 to 23 (6 lines from if to fi) and paste/insert it below itself, then change the first 4 to a 5 and path changes which will depend on which you install of course.
No doubt barry will issue a new /etc/profile file in due time as i'm also getting a XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set error so there may also be a few other changes and additions necessary.
That will include /etc/profile.d/qt5