Fienix 6.0.1

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Fienix 6.0.1

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caseycullen wrote: Wed Mar 01, 2023 1:59 am Fienix 6.0.1 is ready, along with "Fienix Installer - CUB" (CUB = CFE & U-Boot)!

Fienix 6.0.1 New Features
- Built-in support for streaming media to DLNA devices like Chromecast, game consoles, and DLNA-compliant smart TVs
- Built-in support to stream to ROAP devices like Apple Airport Express
- Built-in support for streaming to Bluetooth speakers (and Fienix supports USB Bluetooth adapters)
- Improved printer support and graphical printer configuration
- New, streamlined theme for cleaner interface, new wallpapers and a Fienix screensaver
- Support for GTK 4
- Fienix Companion is much more robust and stable and includes new Fienix Network Mechanic, and the Curated App Suite has been updated
- Almost all QT and KDE frameworks packages have been rebuilt from source to improve stability
- QT packages upgraded to version 5.15.4 and KDE frameworks packages upgraded to version 5.98
- Improved menu functionality for QT/KDE applications ("sticky" menus can be closed by pressing Esc key)
- Improvements in theme consistency for QT/KDE applications
- Improvements in theme consistency for Java desktop applications
- KDEConnect in Fienix 6.0.1 provides integration with both iOS and Android devices (previously only Android devices were supported)
- Eolie, a web browser based on WebKit (the same browser engine as Apple's Safari browser), provides great performance!
- Arctic Fox web browser has been upgraded to version 40.1
- Pale Moon browser 31.2 is now available
- VLC has been upgraded to version 3.0.18
- SFML has been patched in Fienix 6.0.1 to correctly play Ogg Vorbis sound format, unpatched it plays only static on big-endian systems

Fienix Installer - CUB
- Choose the disk you want to install Fienix to, whether hard drive or USB thumb-drive
- Fienix Installer - CUB will set up boot partition with kernel version 6.1 boot files for X1000 and X5000
- Installs Fienix pre-configured to use fbdev
- You will still need to enter CFE or U-Boot boot commands

How to use Fienix Installer - CUB
1) Download Fienix Installer - CUB image here
2) Expand file
3) Copy to a USB thumb-drive using dd ("dd if=/home/fienix/Downloads/fienix-installer-cub.img of=/dev/sdc") for Linux or USB Image Tool (download here) for Windows - if using dd, do not specify a partition, the boot partition is incorporated into the image!
4) No partition adjustments are necessary, just start your X1000 or X5000 up with the USB thumb-drive, enter your boot commands and go!

Note: I will make the Fienix 6.0.1 image available as well, in case you'd like to manually set it up. The website will be updated with more comprehensive instructions as well. I've tested this installer many times, so I hope all the bugs are worked out, but please let me know if you run across something.

Fienix Installer Cub Images:
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Re: Fienix 6.0.1

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caseycullen wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:38 am Great, thanks for checking!
Here is the base image without a boot partition for those who requested it. Please try it when you have a moment.
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Re: Fienix 6.0.1

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xeno74 wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:40 am
caseycullen wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:38 am Great, thanks for checking!
Here is the base image without a boot partition for those who requested it. Please try it when you have a moment.
-Casey
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Re: Fienix 6.0.1

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Sorry the link is blind
Musa
xeno74 wrote: Wed Mar 01, 2023 8:30 am
caseycullen wrote: Wed Mar 01, 2023 1:59 am Fienix 6.0.1 is ready, along with "Fienix Installer - CUB" (CUB = CFE & U-Boot)!

Fienix 6.0.1 New Features
- Built-in support for streaming media to DLNA devices like Chromecast, game consoles, and DLNA-compliant smart TVs
- Built-in support to stream to ROAP devices like Apple Airport Express
- Built-in support for streaming to Bluetooth speakers (and Fienix supports USB Bluetooth adapters)
- Improved printer support and graphical printer configuration
- New, streamlined theme for cleaner interface, new wallpapers and a Fienix screensaver
- Support for GTK 4
- Fienix Companion is much more robust and stable and includes new Fienix Network Mechanic, and the Curated App Suite has been updated
- Almost all QT and KDE frameworks packages have been rebuilt from source to improve stability
- QT packages upgraded to version 5.15.4 and KDE frameworks packages upgraded to version 5.98
- Improved menu functionality for QT/KDE applications ("sticky" menus can be closed by pressing Esc key)
- Improvements in theme consistency for QT/KDE applications
- Improvements in theme consistency for Java desktop applications
- KDEConnect in Fienix 6.0.1 provides integration with both iOS and Android devices (previously only Android devices were supported)
- Eolie, a web browser based on WebKit (the same browser engine as Apple's Safari browser), provides great performance!
- Arctic Fox web browser has been upgraded to version 40.1
- Pale Moon browser 31.2 is now available
- VLC has been upgraded to version 3.0.18
- SFML has been patched in Fienix 6.0.1 to correctly play Ogg Vorbis sound format, unpatched it plays only static on big-endian systems

Fienix Installer - CUB
- Choose the disk you want to install Fienix to, whether hard drive or USB thumb-drive
- Fienix Installer - CUB will set up boot partition with kernel version 6.1 boot files for X1000 and X5000
- Installs Fienix pre-configured to use fbdev
- You will still need to enter CFE or U-Boot boot commands

How to use Fienix Installer - CUB
1) Download Fienix Installer - CUB image here
2) Expand file
3) Copy to a USB thumb-drive using dd ("dd if=/home/fienix/Downloads/fienix-installer-cub.img of=/dev/sdc") for Linux or USB Image Tool (download here) for Windows - if using dd, do not specify a partition, the boot partition is incorporated into the image!
4) No partition adjustments are necessary, just start your X1000 or X5000 up with the USB thumb-drive, enter your boot commands and go!

Note: I will make the Fienix 6.0.1 image available as well, in case you'd like to manually set it up. The website will be updated with more comprehensive instructions as well. I've tested this installer many times, so I hope all the bugs are worked out, but please let me know if you run across something.

Fienix Installer Cub Images:
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Re: Fienix 6.0.1

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Hi Musa,

New links:
Further information: Fienix 6.0.1 - X5000 thread

Cheers,
Christian
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Re: Fienix 6.0.1

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xeno74 wrote: Thu Mar 09, 2023 1:52 pm Hi Musa,

New links:
Further information: Fienix 6.0.1 - X5000 thread

Cheers,
Christian
Hi Christian
just a little look at the Fienix installer that boots
It looks very professional.
I'll wait a bit to try the installer.
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Re: Fienix 6.0.1

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musa wrote: Thu Mar 09, 2023 7:27 pm
xeno74 wrote: Thu Mar 09, 2023 1:52 pm Hi Musa,

New links:
Further information: Fienix 6.0.1 - X5000 thread

Cheers,
Christian
Hi Christian
just a little look at the Fienix installer that boots
It looks very professional.
I'll wait a bit to try the installer.
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Re: Fienix 6.0.1

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Roland wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:41 pm @Casey

Got it running finally! But I had to use an external disk unit as an intermediary: create a huge 20 GB partition, copy the diskimage there, shrink the partition to a decent size and then copy it to my main HD. The original partition size was indeed left too high! You should really correct that in future disk images...;)

One serious problem found: The "Users and Groups" manager was totally missing fron the control center! How can it be installed?
Hi All,

I had the same problem with the new Fienix noboot disk image. I figured out a fast and small solution. With increasing the disk image with qemu-img you can fix the issue. :-)

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qemu-img resize fienix_6.0.1-noboot-r1.img +10G

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fsck.ext4 fienix_6.0.1-noboot-r1.img
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Re: Fienix 6.0.1

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I was able to expand the file system with resize2fs to the new size of the disk image after qemu-img resize.

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resize2fs fienix_6.0.1-noboot-r1.img
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Re: Fienix 6.0.1

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The latest version of QEMU with Fienix 6.0.1:

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