EasyOS is an experimental Linux distribution made in Australia.
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.
The boot menu has an option “Copy session to RAM & disable drives”, which boots to a desktop with power of administrator (root) in all respects except totally isolated from the drives of the PC.
Easy runs on modern UEFI-firmware computers, but is also dedicated to supporting old BIOS computers
Easy is provided as an image file that can be written to any Flash-stick of 4GB or greater (and will auto-grow to fill the drive). Or, the file can be opened up and directly installed to internal hard drive.
It uses JWM is a window manager (and provides the system-tray and menus), and ROX is the ROX-Filer file-manager and desktop handler. They work extremely well together, and are the choice for Easy.
The default mode is to have a “save” icon on the desktop, to flush RAM to drive whenever you want, or not at all, or at shutdown.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | JWM-ROX |
| Init Software: | SysV |
| Package Management: | PET |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | easyos.org |
| Developer: | Barry Kauler |
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