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|    Mike Easter to Mike Easter    |
|    Re: Updating XnView MP    |
|    06 Jul 25 15:41:58    |
      From: MikeE@ster.invalid              Mike Easter wrote:       > wp's article on this topic ref/s this flathub page:              Whenever I get into the weeds reading about packaging and containers and       sandboxing and variations, I 'go back' and marvel a little at Barry       Kauler's strategy in the dev of EasyOS, which system he immersed himself       as he left Puppy's continuing dev to his followers.              In that world, I still like my frugal install of Bookworm Pup64 better       than what I can do w/ EasyOS, as I can adapt a Ventoy stick of multiple       live distro/s to launch the BWP64 frugal install whereas EasyOS is more       contrary re Ventoy implementation.              > EasyOS is designed from scratch to support containers. Any app can       > run in a container, in fact an entire desktop can run in a       > container. Container management is by a simple GUI, no messing       > around on the commandline. .... Easy Containers are extremely       > efficient, with almost no overhead -- the base size of each       > container is only several KB.       >       > While using Easy, everything happens in RAM. App startup appears to       > be almost instantaneous, even very large apps such as LibreOffice       > startup in the blink of an eye. Ditto when starting a container,       > blink of an eye. Depends on your PC of course!                            --       Mike Easter              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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