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EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.4.4 released

July 11, 2026 — BarryK

Bug fixes! Release notes since 7.4.3:

...and of course, more videos.

If you are a newcomer to EasyOS, recommend read the 7.4 announcement, as it has more details:

Download:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/excalibur/2026/7.4.4/

Feedback welcome on the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=173649#p173649

Have fun!   

Tags: easy

Another fix to unmount all partitions

July 11, 2026 — BarryK

See forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=173635#p173635

Have modified /sbin/fixlayers in the initrd to force redraw all partition icons at version update.   

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Typo in EasyShare

July 11, 2026 — BarryK

Sigh, these things do happen when there is a moment of inattention:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=173634#p173634

Will build Easy 7.4.4 tonight.   

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yff rolled back to 2.7

July 11, 2026 — BarryK

Posted earlier that had updated yff to 3.1; however, bug:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=173598#p173598

Need to build Easy 7.4.4 today, so temporarily rolling yff back to 2.7.   

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Fix flipout container not work

July 11, 2026 — BarryK

Forum member NNI has reported that if type "shift+ctrl+c" in a sakura terminal, inside a container, to copy selected text to the clipboard, it then broke flipout of the container.

Found a fix, reported here:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=173615#p173615

That's good, because other people have reported this problem previously, and we never determined why.   

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YouTube Part-20 multi-window file manager

July 10, 2026 — BarryK

Multi-window versus multi-pane, single-click versus double-click:

"EasyOS Part20: Multi-window file manager"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0A_utfAk5c   

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Remove old configuration files

July 10, 2026 — BarryK

I currently have a version history depth of "5", so when update to latest Easy, the version greater than back-5 will get deleted. Easy Version Control will only be able to rollback by 5 versions.

However, I found that old "configuration-*" files in the containers folders are getting left behind:

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I have edited /inc/07new-version script in the initrd, inserted this at line 56:

   #20260710 remove configuration-${ADEL} from containers...
   find /mnt/${WKG_DEV}/${WKG_DIR}containers -maxdepth 2 -type f -name "configuration-${ADEL}" -delete

...where $ADEL is the old version being removed.    

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Video Part-19 easy install to PC

July 09, 2026 — BarryK

This video describes an easy way to install EasyOS to a computer:

"EasyOS Part19: Easiest install to a computer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewx8175jDsM

Intend to create more soon, describing different install methods.    

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