I just downloaded Easy OS (Puppy Linux) and installed it to a USB stick using Image writer.
Booted it.
Configured Wireless Network
Signed in with Gmail to my blog post.
Finished posting this piece in 5 minutes.
This was after I made a sore comment in www.distrowatch.com on Sparky Linux which comes from Poland.
Using the new version of Sparky Linux is a waste of time.
Thank you to all Puppy Linux Developers.
I have downloaded all active Puppy Linux distributions in less than 24 hours by torrent.
I am Puppy Linux Lover and I am in Australia currently.
Barry Kauler of Australia developed Puppy Linux, first.
It is cool, it has a small footprint and a classic Linux Utility (can be installed) and using the word distribution to it is a misnomer.
Only Knoppix can beat it on the number of utilities but Knoppix is almost dormant from 2020.
Gnoppix is a welcome addition.
Easy OS has followings.
1. Container Folder
2. Data Folder
3. File Folder
4. Release Folder
5. sfs Folder
6. Initrd
7. vmlinux
Squash File
Squash may be a Linux term for compression when USB sticks were only 512MB. It opens up and expand in a Live Session.
I used a 512MB stick for my first Puppy Linux!
Squash File (I have forgotten the details) is a one long text file including boot instructions of legacy boot time.
Easy OS uses EFI file that requires only 528MB (much bigger than the boot file in legacy time).
Microsoft UEFI framework tried to destroy dual booting of Linux.
EFI is Linux solution to blatant interference of FREE Internet use by Bill Gate Clients who were working with dead Epstein (I believe murdered Epstein)!
SFS
files use the SquashFS file system, which is compressed and pretty much
only supported by Unix/Linux.
ISO files are much less standardized as
well as uncompressed, so they can be used in a lot more way, including
as a generic file container.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Squashfs is intended for general read-only file-system use and in constrained block-device memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is needed.
Uses
Squashfs is used by the Live CD versions of Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Salix, Ubuntu, NixOS, Clonezilla, Kali Linux, KDE neon and on embedded distributions such as the OpenWrt[1] and DD-WRT router firmware. It is also used in Chromecast,[2] in Tiny Core Linux for packaging extensions, and for the system partitions of some Android releases (Android Nougat).[3] It is often combined with a union mount filesystem, such as UnionFS, OverlayFS, or aufs,
to provide a read-write environment for live Linux distributions. This
takes advantage of both Squashfs's high-speed compression abilities and
the ability to alter the distribution while running it from a live CD.
Distributions such as Debian Live, Mandriva One, Puppy Linux, Salix Live and Slax use this combination. The AppImage project, which aims to create portable linux applications, uses squashfs for creating appimages. The Snappy package manager also uses squashfs for its ".snap file format".
Squashfs is also used by Linux Terminal Server Project and Splashtop. The tools unsquashfs and mksquashfs have been ported to Windows NT[4] – Windows 8.1.[5] 7-Zip also supports Squashfs.[6]
History
Squashfs was initially maintained as an out-of-tree Linux patch. The initial version 1.0 was released on 23 October 2002.[7] In 2009 Squashfs was merged into Linux mainline as part of Linux 2.6.29.[8][9] In that process, the backward-compatibility code for older formats was removed. Since then the Squashfs kernel-space code has been maintained in the Linux mainline tree, while the user-space tools remain on the project's GitHub page.[10]
The original version of Squashfs used gzip compression, although Linux kernel 2.6.34 added support for LZMA[11] and LZO compression,[12] Linux kernel 2.6.38 added support for LZMA2 compression (which is used by xz),[13] Linux kernel 3.19 added support for LZ4 compression,[14] and Linux kernel 4.14 added support for Zstandard compression.[15]
Linux kernel 2.6.35 added support for extended file attributes.
