Easy OS 2.4.1

Puppy Linux has a younger sibling, and like Jonni Bidwell it’s completely container-mad and works well on a boat.

- Jonni Bidwell

Puppy Linux is a veteran distro. Well actually, it isn’t so much a distro these days as a treatment that you can give to existing distros. Anyway, whatever it is, it was originally created back in 2003 by Barry Kauler with the goals of being lightweight yet complete. It’s under new stewardship now, but still holds true to those ideals.

EasyOS has, for the last three years, been Kauler’s pet project in which he takes Puppy Linux and introduces his own take on containers. We’re going to look at the recently released version based on Debian Buster.

Easy on the storage

Before we proceed, we should tell you that there’s nothing particularly easy about EasyOS. It’s very different to well-known desktop distros such as Ubuntu or Manjaro or anything of that ilk. You can install it to your hard drive, where it will occupy all of three files, but you can also run it straight from USB. On that note, if you’re a lazy reviewer hoping to just fire up an ISO in a virtual machine (