Releases: n3rdopolis/rebeccablackos
Releases · n3rdopolis/rebeccablackos
2024-08-12
These ISOs are PRERELEASE. Using SVN Revision 8769
They currently contain:
Wayland Libraries:
* Wayland Master
* Weston Master
Wayland Toolkits and Applications:
* Wayland enabled Clutter
* Wayland enabled SDL
* Wayland enabled GTK
* Wayland enabled Qt
* Wayland enabled FreeGLUT
* Wayland enabled GLFW
* Wayland enabled mpv
* Wayland enabled gstreamer
* KDE Frameworks Wayland programs
Wayland Desktops:
* Weston's Example Desktop
* Not in this ISO: Liri, Mir, Enlightenment
* Gnome-shell
* KDE Plasma
* Wayfire / Mate
* Sway
* LXQt
* XFCE
Other Features:
* A graphical utility for configuring udev for weston multiseat/multi pointer
* A functional Wayland login manager written in Bash, that supports user switching and session selection, multiple seats, rotational session logs, and a wlprofile file.
* waypipe for remote Wayland, and a script utility built around it, to make it easy to save and reuse connections. (Passwords are not saved)
New in these ISOs since 2023-01-16:
Only 64 bit ISOs are made as QtWebEngine refuses to build in 32 bit chroots
Config files in packages built by checkinstall are correctly marked as config files
Files from the build process are all part of packages, and are not ophaned
The number of potential file conflicts with unintalled packages from the tier 1 Debian repo has been vastly reduced. The few that remain are properly handled by dpkg-divert
Linux 6.10 is built, and drm_panic is enabled
The ttynull driver is enabled
Linux is patched directly to use /dev/ttynull as the default console device. This allows systemd to correctly log to /dev/console
The tier 1 packages are now Debian Bookworm
Qt5 is now removed in favor of Qt6
The build_core automatic dependancy detection has been improved
The waylandloginmanager, using a solution inspired by xrdp supports 1 user having parrallel sessions started by systemd-user to be logged in
waylandloginmanager exports WLM_XDG_SEAT and WLM_XDG_SESSION for sessions that unset XDG_SEAT and XDG_SESSION
wlsuhelper is dropped, in favor of wlsu which is easier to use
Plymouth starts earlier in the boot process
The build process's usage of overlayfs is less hacky
waylandloginmanager uses kdialog now instead of zenity
waylandloginmanager no longer supports the wlmdebuginsecure boot option
Instead of /srcbuild packages now source download to /var/cache/srcbuild when being built, and instead of /buildlogs, they get logged to /var/log/buildlogs
waylandloginmanager now shows the session name in the session switcher, (eg: "Default Weston", "KDE", etc)
waylandloginmanager guesses the WAYLAND_DISPLAY of the current session so that the GTK portal starts, allowing GTK programs to not hang on startup. This is for sessions that don't have systemd integration to update the activation environment such as Weston. While Weston allows a WAYLAND_DISPLAY to be set, most other display servers do not have a way for login managers to force a known WAYLAND_DISPLAY
waylandloginmanager has been made more resillent to handling commands if two or more are sent to its FIFO at a time very quickly
configureseats list of proposed changes is now scrollable, instead of making a very tall dialog if there are multiple changes
The Grub menu, the boot splash, and the wallpaper for the loginmanagerdisplay are now all the same, this leads to a even more transitionless boot than the flicker free boot in the previous ISO
The waylandloginmanager creates the ~/.cache/wlsessionlogs folder in the correct order
The waylandloginmanager's handling of the loginmanager_register fifo is more robust
The waylandloginmanager detects Weston's capabilities better, in case the installed Weston doesn't support fullscreen-shell for nested sessions
The waylandloginmanager supports listening for SecureAttentionKey dbus notifications from logind
A bug in the waylandloginmanager's command FIFO filtering was fixed when a different locale was enabled.
logind v252 is shipped, with the SecureAttentionKey from the upcoming v257 release backported to it.
LXQt is a new availible session.
The build process in phase 3 was improved to be more organized, The file import no longer makes a /usr/import, the non-build_core built packages use more Debian features, packages that are build time only (not in the smaller ISO), are able to be flagged as such in the INSTALLS_LIST.txt
configureseats now tries to display the hardware names correctly
The ISOs are now built so that Casper's UUID detection works correctly.
Removals:
Enlightenment is not on this ISO, due to size constraints.
Mir is not on this ISO, due to size constraints
Wine is not on this ISO, due to size constraints
Liri is not on this ISO as its Qt6 port is not complete
Usage:
There is no password for the Live Session User (rebestie), while auto login is enabled when starting as a live CD. The password is blank
sha512sum:
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[RebeccaBlackOS_Source_amd64.tar.gz](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/16581773/RebeccaBlackOS_Source_amd64.tar.gz)
2024-03-01
These ISOs are PRERELEASE. Using SVN Revision 8488
They currently contain:
Wayland Libraries:
* Wayland Master
* Weston Master
Wayland Toolkits and Applications:
* Wayland enabled Clutter
* Wayland enabled SDL
* Wayland enabled GTK
* Wayland enabled Qt
* Wayland enabled EFL/Elementary
* Wayland enabled FreeGLUT
* Wayland enabled GLFW
* Wayland enabled mpv
* Wayland enabled gstreamer
* KDE Frameworks Wayland programs
Wayland Desktops:
* Weston's Example Desktop
* Not in this ISO: Liri
* Gnome-shell
* KDE Plasma
* Enlightenment
* Wayfire / Mate
* Sway
* Mir
* XFCE
Other Features:
* A graphical utility for configuring udev for weston multiseat/multi pointer
* A functional Wayland login manager written in Bash, that supports user switching and session selection, multiple seats, rotational session logs, and a wlprofile file.
* waypipe for remote Wayland, and a script utility built around it, to make it easy to save and reuse connections. (Passwords are not saved)
New in these ISOs since 2023-01-16:
Only 64 bit ISOs are made as QtWebEngine refuses to build in 32 bit chroots
Config files in packages built by checkinstall are correctly marked as config files
Files from the build process are all part of packages, and are not ophaned
The number of potential file conflicts with unintalled packages from the tier 1 Debian repo has been vastly reduced. The few that remain are properly handled by dpkg-divert
Linux 6.6 is built, meaning that now all drivers support wlroots now without the need for workarounds
The tier 1 packages are now Debian Bookworm
Qt5 is now removed in favor of Qt6
The build_core automatic dependancy detection has been improved
The waylandloginmanager, using a solution inspired by xrdp supports 1 user having parrallel sessions started by systemd-user to be logged in
waylandloginmanager exports WLM_XDG_SEAT and WLM_XDG_SESSION for sessions that unset XDG_SEAT and XDG_SESSION
wlsuhelper is dropped, in favor of wlsu which is easier to use
Plymouth starts earlier in the boot process
The build process's usage of overlayfs is less hacky
waylandloginmanager uses kdialog now instead of zenity
waylandloginmanager no longer supports the wlmdebuginsecure boot option
Instead of /srcbuild packages now source download to /var/cache/srcbuild when being built, and instead of /buildlogs, they get logged to /var/log/buildlogs
waylandloginmanager now shows the session name in the session switcher, (eg: "Default Weston", "KDE", etc)
waylandloginmanager guesses the WAYLAND_DISPLAY of the current session so that the GTK portal starts, allowing GTK programs to not hang on startup. This is for sessions that don't have systemd integration to update the activation environment such as Weston. While Weston allows a WAYLAND_DISPLAY to be set, most other display servers do not have a way for login managers to force a known WAYLAND_DISPLAY
waylandloginmanager has been made more resillent to handling commands if two or more are sent to its FIFO at a time very quickly
configureseats list of proposed changes is now scrollable, instead of making a very tall dialog if there are multiple changes
The Grub menu, the boot splash, and the wallpaper for the loginmanagerdisplay are now all the same, this leads to a even more transitionless boot than the flicker free boot in the previous ISO
labwc, cage, sway, and wayfire all depend on different versions of wlroots, but with some workarounds, multiple versions of wlroots are installed, without conflict, to allow the latest version of each
The waylandloginmanager creates the ~/.cache/wlsessionlogs folder in the correct order
The waylandloginmanager's handling of the loginmanager_register fifo is more robust
The waylandloginmanager detects Weston's capabilities better, in case the installed Weston doesn't support fullscreen-shell for nested sessions
Usage:
There is no password for the Live Session User (rebestie), while auto login is enabled when starting as a live CD. The password is blank
sha512sum:
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2023-12-21
These ISOs are PRERELEASE. Using SVN Revision 8410
They currently contain:
Wayland Libraries:
* Wayland Master
* Weston Master
Wayland Toolkits and Applications:
* Wayland enabled Clutter
* Wayland enabled SDL
* Wayland enabled GTK
* Wayland enabled Qt
* Wayland enabled EFL/Elementary
* Wayland enabled FreeGLUT
* Wayland enabled GLFW
* Wayland enabled mpv
* Wayland enabled gstreamer
* KDE Frameworks Wayland programs
Wayland Desktops:
* Weston's Example Desktop
* Not in this ISO: Liri
* Gnome-shell
* KDE Plasma
* Enlightenment
* Wayfire / Mate
* Sway
* Mir
* XFCE
Other Features:
* A graphical utility for configuring udev for weston multiseat/multi pointer
* A functional Wayland login manager written in Bash, that supports user switching and session selection, multiple seats, rotational session logs, and a wlprofile file.
* waypipe for remote Wayland, and a script utility built around it, to make it easy to save and reuse connections. (Passwords are not saved)
New in these ISOs since 2023-01-16:
Only 64 bit ISOs are made as QtWebEngine refuses to build in 32 bit chroots
Config files in packages built by checkinstall are correctly marked as config files
Files from the build process are all part of packages, and are not ophaned
The number of potential file conflicts with unintalled packages from the tier 1 Debian repo has been vastly reduced. The few that remain are properly handled by dpkg-divert
Linux 6.6 is built, meaning that now all drivers support wlroots now without the need for workarounds
The tier 1 packages are now Debian Bookworm
Qt5 is now removed in favor of Qt6
The build_core automatic dependancy detection has been improved
The waylandloginmanager, using a solution inspired by xrdp supports 1 user having parrallel sessions started by systemd-user to be logged in
waylandloginmanager exports WLM_XDG_SEAT and WLM_XDG_SESSION for sessions that unset XDG_SEAT and XDG_SESSION
[RebeccaBlackOS_Revisions_amd64.txt](https://github.com/n3rdopolis/rebeccablackos/files/13752436/RebeccaBlackOS_Revisions_amd64.txt)
wlsuhelper is dropped, in favor of wlsu which is easier to use
Plymouth starts earlier in the boot process
The build process's usage of overlayfs is less hacky
waylandloginmanager uses kdialog now instead of zenity
waylandloginmanager no longer supports the wlmdebuginsecure boot option
Instead of /srcbuild packages now source download to /var/cache/srcbuild when being built, and instead of /buildlogs, they get logged to /var/log/buildlogs
waylandloginmanager now shows the session name in the session switcher, (eg: "Default Weston", "KDE", etc)
waylandloginmanager guesses the WAYLAND_DISPLAY of the current session so that the GTK portal starts, allowing GTK programs to not hang on startup. This is for sessions that don't have systemd integration to update the activation environment such as Weston. While Weston allows a WAYLAND_DISPLAY to be set, most other display servers do not have a way for login managers to force a known WAYLAND_DISPLAY
waylandloginmanager has been made more resillent to handling commands if two or more are sent to its FIFO at a time very quickly
configureseats list of proposed changes is now scrollable, instead of making a very tall dialog if there are multiple changes
The Grub menu, the boot splash, and the wallpaper for the loginmanagerdisplay are now all the same, this leads to a even more transitionless boot than the flicker free boot in the previous ISO
labwc, cage, sway, and wayfire all depend on different versions of wlroots, but with some workarounds, multiple versions of wlroots are installed, without conflict, to allow the latest version of each
Usage:
There is no password for the Live Session User (rebestie), while auto login is enabled when starting as a live CD. The password is blank
sha512sum:
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2023-01-16
These ISOs are PRERELEASE. Using SVN Revision 7908
They currently contain:
Wayland Libraries:
* Wayland Master
* Weston Master
Wayland Toolkits and Applications:
* Wayland enabled Clutter
* Wayland enabled SDL
* Wayland enabled GTK
* Wayland enabled Qt
* Wayland enabled EFL/Elementary
* Wayland enabled FreeGLUT
* Wayland enabled GLFW
* Wayland enabled mpv
* Wayland enabled gstreamer
* KDE Frameworks Wayland programs
Wayland Desktops:
* Weston's Example Desktop
* Liri
* Gnome-shell
* KDE Plasma
* Enlightenment
* Wayfire / Mate
* Sway
* Mir
Other Features:
* A graphical utility for configuring udev for weston multiseat/multi pointer
* A functional Wayland login manager written in Bash, that supports user switching and session selection, multiple seats, rotational session logs, and a wlprofile file.
* waypipe for remote Wayland, and a script utility built around it, to make it easy to save and reuse connections. (Passwords are not saved)
New in these ISOs since 2021-08-30:
More firmware is installed
All packages that were installing libraries under /opt/lib have been corrcted to install under the multiarch path
The kernel is Linux 6.1, and is compiled without VTs. (CONFIG_VT=n)
The startup squence between Plymouth and the greeter is now 100% flickerfree.
The Squashfs filesystems are compressed with zstd instead of xz. While there is a small sacrifice in the size of the ISOs, the read performance of zstd is much faster
Mate applications are added, and the Wayfire session has been adopted to use as much of Mate Wayland as possible
None of the *-rbos packages have dpkg file overwrite conflicts anymore. (gstreamer was the largest offender, until it got merged into one large repository)
vtty now uses cage/foot instead of cage/vte
configureseats has been overhauled to where a device can be selected and associated with a desired seat, instead of waiting for them to be looped through, and the terminology used in the UI is more accurate
rbos-add-framebuffer has been renamed and overhauled to be rbos-configure-simplegraphics which attempts to detect supported VBE resolutions to be selectable
Fixed a conflict that was preventing KDE Plasma's task manager from working
The Mir demo is selectable as a session
Adaptations to allow framebuffers to work, such as uaccess permissions for udev on /dev/fb* have been removed.
UEFI ISO fixes
The Fullscreen Terminal session is now client/server running as the user, which allows the cage/foot frontend to be disconnected from the main pty running the shell, so that it can be replaced without ending the session. (eg, to run a different display server, similar to a VT)
Adoptations have been added to bring equivilent failover features, now that CONFIG_VT is disabled.
- foot and cage are in the intramfs, and if the intitramfs breaks, a prompt under cage/foot is started
- init=/sbin/recinit can be used instead of init=/bin/bash , it starts a prompt under cage/foot
- Under the Fullscreen Terminal session, running `uvtty-launch weston` will allow Weston to run as a "bare metal" display server, by suspending foot/cage.
ISO Building:
- Fixed an issue so that debootstrap doesn't fail when there are no keyrings
- Checkinstall is now faster when handling a lot of files in overlayfs mode
- Checkinstall uses overlayfs smarter
- build-core handles packages that need newer cargo better
More corrections to importing dbus things in /opt to work systemwide
The WaylandLoginManager:
- Handles calling plymouth deactivate, and plymouth quit to ensure that the startup sequence between Plymouth and its greeter(s) are flickerfree, with no blank screen in between.
- Adds a facility to make it easier to start a compositor under gdb. Either with a second seat, or SSH for remote debugging, add set=WLM_GDB_SESSION=1 to the [EnvironmentFile] block
- Supports standard wayland-session .desktop files, if the wsessionspaths= option is set to /opt/share/wayland-sessions/ , instead of the default /usr/share/wsessions.d/.
- Removes remaining hard-coded multi-second timeouts.
- Supports sessions that specify set=WLM_NO_DBUS_RUN_SESSION=1 in their [EnvironmentFile] block, to NOT be started with dbus-run-session
- Uses PAM to check the password, instead of using expect to interact with su
- Correctly handles passwords ending in spaces. This fix was separate from the change where it now uses PAM
- Better detects when sessions quit, accounting for logind sessions that may still remain, despite the LeaderPID quitting
- For display servers, like gnome, that only log to journald, it exports the logs to the ~/.cache/wlsessionlogs/waylandsession-{seat}-{sessiondate}.log as well
- Binds in the /tmp/*-unix paths into the private /tmp/ for each session
- Now handles versions of Weston that dropped the framebuffer backend
- No longer exports a suggested WAYLAND_DISPLAY variable to user sessions, only swc based sessions used this.
- Correctly sets utmp information
- Handles aborted sessions on seats without VTs better
- Doesn't hang upon service restart where CONFIG_VT=n
- Can handle very minimal wsession files where only CompositorExec is specified
- Supports per-user wsession files under ~/.local/share/wsessions.d
- Doesn't leave running threads for seat-vtty or other seats without supported hardware, waiting for a display server that never gets started
- More reliable IPC, the user writable file is a socket file, filtered by socat and grep running as non-root users, which gets forwarded to the FIFO read by the main thread
- The privleged FIFO where session info is passed also has better handling to not lose information
- The overprotective throttle has been removed, while trying to make it impossible to make a standard user to raise the CPU usage of the waylandloginmanager by flooding
it with commands, the throttle would delay the handling of commands way too long
Usage:
There is no password for the Live Session User (rebestie), while auto login is enabled when starting as a live CD. The password is blank
sha512sum:
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2022-12-12
These ISOs are PRERELEASE. Using SVN Revision 7856
They currently contain:
Wayland Libraries:
* Wayland Master
* Weston Master
Wayland Toolkits and Applications:
* Wayland enabled Clutter
* Wayland enabled SDL
* Wayland enabled GTK
* Wayland enabled Qt
* Wayland enabled EFL/Elementary
* Wayland enabled FreeGLUT
* Wayland enabled GLFW
* Wayland enabled mpv
* Wayland enabled gstreamer
* KDE Frameworks Wayland programs
Wayland Desktops:
* Weston's Example Desktop
* Liri
* Gnome-shell
* KDE Plasma
* Enlightenment
* Wayfire / Mate
* Sway
* Mir
Other Features:
* A graphical utility for configuring udev for weston multiseat/multi pointer
* A functional Wayland login manager written in Bash, that supports user switching and session selection, multiple seats, rotational session logs, and a wlprofile file.
* waypipe for remote Wayland, and a script utility built around it, to make it easy to save and reuse connections. (Passwords are not saved)
New in these ISOs since 2021-08-30:
More firmware is installed
All packages that were installing libraries under /opt/lib have been corrcted to install under the multiarch path
Only 64 bit ISOs are provided, 32 bit ISOs are buildable if requested, but it is likely there is not going to be a large demand.
The kernel is Linux 6.0, and is compiled without VTs. (CONFIG_VT=n)
More efforts have been taken to make the startup as flicker free as possible
The Squashfs filesystems are compressed with zstd instead of xz. While there is a small sacrifice in the size of the ISOs, the read performance of zstd is much faster
Mate applications are added, and the Wayfire session has been adopted to use as much of Mate Wayland as possible
None of the *-rbos packages have dpkg file overwrite conflicts anymore. (gstreamer was the largest offender, until it got merged into one large repository)
vtty now uses cage/foot instead of cage/vte
configureseats has been overhauled to where a device can be selected and associated with a desired seat, instead of waiting for them to be looped through, and the terminology used in the UI is more accurate
rbos-add-framebuffer has been renamed and overhauled to be rbos-configure-simplegraphics which attempts to detect supported VBE resolutions to be selectable
Fixed a conflict that was preventing KDE Plasma's task manager from working
The Mir demo is selectable as a session
Adaptations to allow framebuffers to work, such as uaccess permissions for udev on /dev/fb* have been removed.
UEFI ISO fixes
The Fullscreen Terminal session is now client/server running as the user, which allows the cage/foot frontend to be disconnected from the main pty running the shell, so that it can be replaced without ending the session. (eg, to run a different display server, similar to a VT)
Adoptations have been added to bring equivilent failover features, now that CONFIG_VT is disabled.
- foot and cage are in the intramfs, and if the intitramfs breaks, a prompt under cage/foot is started
- init=/sbin/recinit can be used instead of init=/bin/bash , it starts a prompt under cage/foot
- Under the Fullscreen Terminal session, running `uvtty-launch weston` will allow Weston to run as a "bare metal" display server, by suspending foot/cage.
ISO Building:
- Fixed an issue so that debootstrap doesn't fail when there are no keyrings
- Checkinstall is now faster when handling a lot of files in overlayfs mode
- Checkinstall uses overlayfs smarter
- build-core handles packages that need newer cargo better
More corrections to importing dbus things in /opt to work systemwide
The WaylandLoginManager:
- Adds a facility to make it easier to start a compositor under gdb. Either with a second seat, or SSH for remote debugging, add set=WLM_GDB_SESSION=1 to the [EnvironmentFile] block
- Supports standard wayland-session .desktop files, if the wsessionspaths= option is set to /opt/share/wayland-sessions/ , instead of the default /usr/share/wsessions.d/.
- Removes remaining hard-coded multi-second timeouts.
- Supports sessions that specify set=WLM_NO_DBUS_RUN_SESSION=1 in their [EnvironmentFile] block, to NOT be started with dbus-run-session
- Uses PAM to check the password, instead of using expect to interact with su
- Better detects when sessions quit, accounting for logind sessions that may still remain, despite the LeaderPID quitting
- For display servers, like gnome, that only log to journald, it exports the logs to the ~/.cache/wlsessionlogs/waylandsession-{seat}-{sessiondate}.log as well
- Binds in the /tmp/*-unix paths into the private /tmp/ for each session
- Now handles versions of Weston that dropped the framebuffer backend
- No longer exports a suggested WAYLAND_DISPLAY variable to user sessions, only swc based sessions used this.
- Correctly sets utmp information
- Handles aborted sessions on seats without VTs better
- Doesn't hang upon service restart where CONFIG_VT=n
- Can handle very minimal wsession files where only CompositorExec is specified
- Supports per-user wsession files under ~/.local/share/wsessions.d
- Doesn't leave running threads for seat-vtty or other seats without supported hardware, waiting for a display server that never gets started
- More reliable IPC, the user writable file is a socket file, filtered by socat and grep running as non-root users, which gets forwarded to the FIFO read by the main thread
- The privleged FIFO where session info is passed also has better handling to not lose information
- The overprotective throttle has been removed, while trying to make it impossible to make a standard user to raise the CPU usage of the waylandloginmanager by flooding
it with commands, the throttle would delay the handling of commands way too long
Usage:
There is no password for the Live Session User (rebestie), while auto login is enabled when starting as a live CD. The password is blank
Streaming Look At You, and Crumbs by Rebecca Black is highly recommended, as well as Let Her Burn once the EP is released.
sha512sum:
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2022-06-15
These ISOs are PRERELEASE. Using SVN Revision 7532
They currently contain:
Wayland Libraries:
* Wayland Master
* Weston Master
Wayland Toolkits and Applications:
* Wayland enabled Clutter
* Wayland enabled SDL
* Wayland enabled GTK
* Wayland enabled Qt
* Wayland enabled EFL/Elementary
* Wayland enabled FreeGLUT
* Wayland enabled GLFW
* Wayland enabled mpv
* Wayland enabled gstreamer
* KDE Frameworks Wayland programs
* Native Calligra Wayland programs
Wayland Desktops:
* Weston's Example Desktop
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Liri
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Gnome-shell
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* KDE Plasma
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Enlightenment
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Wayfire / Mate
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Sway
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Mir
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
Other Features:
* A graphical utility for configuring udev for weston multiseat/multi pointer
* A functional Wayland login manager written in Bash, that supports user switching and session selection, multiple seats, rotational session logs, and a wlprofile file.
* Mir
* waypipe for remote Wayland, and a script utility built around it, to make it easy to save and reuse connections. (Passwords are not saved)
New in these ISOs since 2021-08-30:
Only 64 bit ISOs are provided, 32 bit ISOs are buildable if requested, but it is likely there is not going to be a large demand.
The Squashfs filesystems are compressed with zstd instead of xz. While there is a small sacrifice in the size of the ISOs, the read performance of zstd is much faster
Linux 5.14 is built instead of 5.10. Linux 5.14 has simpledrm merged in mainline, where in the previous ISOs the patches were cherrypicked for simplekms
Mate applications are added, and the Wayfire session has been adopted to use as much of Mate Wayland as possible
None of the *-rbos packages have dpkg file overwrite conflicts anymore. (gstreamer was the largest offender, until it got merged into one large repository)
vtty now uses cage/foot instead of cage/vte
configureseats has been overhauled to where a device can be selected and associated with a desired seat, instead of waiting for them to be looped through, and the terminology used in the UI is more accurate
rbos-add-framebuffer has been renamed and overhauled to be rbos-configure-simplegraphics which attempts to detect supported VBE resolutions to be selectable
Fixed a conflict that was preventing KDE Plasma's task manager from working
The Mir demo is selectable as a session
Adaptations to allow framebuffers to work, such as uaccess permissions for udev on /dev/fb* have been removed.
UEFI ISO fixes
The Fullscreen Terminal session is now client/server running as the user, which allows the cage/foot frontend to be disconnected from the main pty running the shell, so that it can be replaced without ending the session. (eg, to run a different display server, similar to a VT)
Start adding maui-shell, it's not selectable yet
Adoptations have been added for future compatiblity with disabling CONFIG_VT. While still enabled, these changes will make the move easier
- foot and cage are in the intramfs, and if the intitramfs breaks, a prompt under cage/foot is started
- init=/sbin/recinit can be used instead of init=/bin/bash , it starts a prompt under cage/foot
- Under the Fullscreen Terminal session, running `uvtty-launch weston` will allow Weston to run as a "bare metal" display server, by suspending foot/cage.
ISO Building:
- Fixed an issue so that debootstrap doesn't fail when there are no keyrings
- Checkinstall is now faster when handling a lot of files in overlayfs mode
More corrections to importing dbus things in /opt to work systemwide
The WaylandLoginManager:
- Now handles systems where Weston doesn't support framebuffers
- No longer exports a suggested WAYLAND_DISPLAY variable to user sessions, only swc based sessions used this.
- Correctly sets utmp information
- Handles aborted sessions on seats without VTs better
- Doesn't hang upon service restart where CONFIG_VT=n
- Can handle very minimal wsession files where only CompositorExec is specified
- Supports per-user wsession files under ~/.local/share/wsessions.d
- Doesn't leave running threads for seat-vtty or other seats without supported hardware, waiting for a display server that never gets started
- More reliable IPC, the user writable file is a socket file, filtered by socat and grep running as non-root users, which gets forwarded to the FIFO read by the main thread
- The privleged FIFO where session info is passed also has better handling to not lose information
- The overprotective throttle has been removed, while trying to make it impossible to make a standard user to raise the CPU usage of the waylandloginmanager by flooding
it with commands, the throttle would delay the handling of commands way too long
Usage:
There is no password for the Live Session User (rebestie), while auto login is enabled when starting as a live CD. The password is blank
If you choose to install, the live session user does not get added, and instead the login becomes the default username and password that is configured at the installation wizard
Problems:
Enlightenment in wizard mode sometimes doesn't show the cursor
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2021-08-30
These ISOs are PRERELEASE. Using SVN Revision 6992,
Note that RELEASE here does not imply truly stable as many packages are bleeding edge. It's from a standpoint that the demos are working.
Use in production is not recommended
They currently contain:
Wayland Libraries:
* Wayland Master
* Weston Master
Wayland Toolkits and Applications:
* Wayland enabled Clutter
* Wayland enabled SDL
* Wayland enabled GTK
* Wayland enabled Qt
* Wayland enabled EFL/Elementary
* Wayland enabled FreeGLUT
* Wayland enabled GLFW
* Wayland enabled mpv
* Wayland enabled gstreamer
* KDE Frameworks Wayland programs
* Native Calligra Wayland programs
Wayland Desktops:
* Weston's Example Desktop
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Liri
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Gnome-shell
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* KDE Plasma
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Enlightenment
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Wayfire
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Sway
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
Other Features:
* A graphical utility for configuring udev for weston multiseat/multi pointer
* A functional Wayland login manager written in Bash, that supports user switching and session selection, multiple seats, rotational session logs, and a wlprofile file.
* Mir
* waypipe for remote Wayland, and a script utility built around it, to make it easy to save and reuse connections. (Passwords are not saved)
New in these ISOs since 2020-05-20:
The kernel is built with simplekms patches cherrypicked in https://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg262273.html . This allows modesetting on
a wider variety of hardware that didn't have it before, and reduces the need for falling back to using framebuffer devices.
For better graphical support (gfxmode=keep), the ISOs now boot with GRUB instead of ISOLINUX. These ISOs should still be bootable with isohybrid.
The ISO now only has TWO boot options (down from 12), instead of the confusing list of standard mode, software mode, framebuffer mode, and options to try to force a framebuffer size.
The only options now are standard mode, and forcing software rendering
An experimental feature called vTTYs replace the text mode VTs, they are replaced by a full screen instance of VTE running on Cage. The Kernel mode VTs still run if init=/bin/bash is passed, or cage fails to run.
These look nicer than the text mode TTYs, and don't bleed keyboard input from other seats.
Tier 1 packages now come from Debian Bullseye
Wine Wayland has been added, however to save ISO space, there is no multi-arch, so the bitness of the executables that Wine can run are dependent on the bitness of the ISO
Qt6 Wayland and small examples has been added
pipewire-pulse is the default
More firmware is installed by default, Debian packages the same files, but differently. It was attempted to best match the firmware packages that Ubuntu ISOs ship with
The "Wayland Demos" section has been cleaned up a bit, now that real applications run under Wayland for years, and the Wayland variables are correctly handled, it's not as needed to have all the duplication
ISO Building:
- /sys is no longer bind-mounted into the build chroots
- /dev is no longer bind-mounted into the build chroots. Instead a small ram fs with stdio/stdin/stdout files, and pts and shm replaces it
- The build_core script runs the download processes as a non-root user. Now the non-root user is a member of a non-standard group.
It is not 'nogroup' anymore, but a different GID, that way it reduces the likelihood that git, if exploited by a repository server that has been
breached, less files will be readable to it.
More corrections to importing dbus things in /opt to work systemwide
Weston has been patched with a (submitted) patch that should make session activation more resilient on some hardware. This should prevent randomly blank login manager greeters.
The WaylandLoginManager:
- The greeter now starts on the more traditional TTY7 instead of TTY8.
- Fix handling of enforcing software rendering for user sessions when chosen
- Correctly gets XDG_SEAT and XDG_SESSION_ID variables within user sessions, when some Desktop Environments like gnome unset them.
- Correctly excludes greeters when counting active sessions in the shutdown prompts.
- Supports WKS backends, in addition to KMS, FB, WL.
Where WL sessions were nested sessions relying on Weston's fullscreen-shell
fullscreen-shell support is rare, as it needs support written for it. WKS
backend is nested sessions using Weston's Kiosk Shell, which does NOT need special support.
This allows desktops such as Enlightenment to run, when there is no mode setting.
The need for this is much rarer now, thank to the simplekms driver...
- Handles /tmp/.X11-unix correctly even in the per-session private tmps
- Dropped the wlmforcevblankoff option, this was never needed, and part of a failed attempt to light up DisplayLink2 devices.
A fix that ended up being fixed in the udl kernel driver itself
Usage:
There is no password for the Live Session User (rebestie), while auto login is enabled when starting as a live CD. The password is blank
If you choose to install, the live session user does not get added, and instead the login becomes the default username and password that is configured at the installation wizard
Problems:
Enlightenment in wizard mode sometimes doesn't show the cursor
sha512sum:
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2021-07-30
These ISOs are PRERELEASE. Using SVN Revision 6950,
They currently contain:
Wayland Libraries:
* Wayland Master
* Weston Master
Wayland Toolkits and Applications:
* Wayland enabled Clutter
* Wayland enabled SDL
* Wayland enabled GTK
* Wayland enabled Qt
* Wayland enabled EFL/Elementary
* Wayland enabled FreeGLUT
* Wayland enabled GLFW
* Wayland enabled mpv
* Wayland enabled gstreamer
* KDE Frameworks Wayland programs
* Native Calligra Wayland programs
Wayland Desktops:
* Weston's Example Desktop
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Liri
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Gnome-shell
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* KDE Plasma
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Enlightenment
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Wayfire
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Sway
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
Other Features:
* A graphical utility for configuring udev for weston multiseat/multi pointer
* A functional Wayland login manager written in Bash, that supports user switching and session selection, multiple seats, rotational session logs, and a wlprofile file.
* Mir
* waypipe for remote Wayland, and a script utility built around it, to make it easy to save and reuse connections. (Passwords are not saved)
New in these ISOs since 2020-05-20:
The kernel is built with simplekms patches cherrypicked in https://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg262273.html . This allows modesetting on
a wider variety of hardware that didn't have it before, and reduces the need for falling back to using framebuffer devices.
For better graphical support (gfxmode=keep), the ISOs now boot with GRUB instead of ISOLINUX. These ISOs should still be bootable with isohybrid.
The ISO now only has TWO boot options (down from 12), instead of the confusing list of standard mode, software mode, framebuffer mode, and options to try to force a framebuffer size.
The only options now are standard mode, and forcing software rendering
An experemental feature called vTTYs replace the text mode VTs, they are replaced by a full screen instance of VTE running on Cage. The Kernel mode VTs still run if init=/bin/bash is passed, or cage fails to run.
These look nicer than the text mode TTYs, and don't bleed keyboard input from other seats.
Tier 1 pacakges now come from Debian Bullseye
Wine Wayland has been added, however to save ISO space, there is no multi-arch, so the bitness of the executables that Wine can run are dependant on the bitness of the ISO
Qt6 Wayland and small examples has been added
pipewire-pulse is the default
More firmware is installed by default, Debian packages the same files, but differently. It was attempted to best match the firmware packages that Ubuntu ISOs ship with
The "Wayland Demos" section has been cleaned up a bit, now that real applications run under Wayland for years, and the Wayland variables are correctly handled, it's not as needed to have all the duplication
ISO Building:
- /sys is no longer bind-mounted into the build chroots
- /dev is no longer bind-mounted into the build chroots. Instead a small ram fs with stdio/stdin/stdout files, and pts and shm replaces it
- The build_core script runs the download processes as a non-root user. Now the non-root user is a member of a non-standard group.
It is not 'nogroup' anymore, but a different GID, that way it reduces the likelyhood that git, if exploited by a repositoty server that has been
breached, less files will be readable to it.
More corrections to importing dbus things in /opt to work systemwide
The WaylandLoginManager:
- The greeter now starts on the more traditional TTY7 instead of TTY8.
- Fix handling of enforcing software rendering for user sessions when chosen
- Correctly gets XDG_SEAT and XDG_SESSION_ID variables within user sessions, when some Desktop Environments like gnome unset them.
- Correctly excludes greeters when counting active sessions in the shutdown prompts.
- Supports WKS backends, in addition to KMS, FB, WL.
Where WL sessions were nested sessions relying on Weston's fullscreen-shell
fullscreen-shell support is rare, as it needs support written for it. WKS
backend is nested sessions using Weston's Kiosk Shell, which does NOT need special support.
This allows desktops such as Enlightenment to run, when there is no mode setting.
The need for this is much rarer now, thank to the simplekms driver...
- Handles /tmp/.X11-unix correctly even in the per-session private tmps
- Dropped the wlmforcevblankoff option, this was never needed, and part of a failed attempt to light up DisplayLink2 devices.
A fix that ended up being fixed in the udl kernel driver itself
Usage:
There is no password for the Live Session User (rebestie), while auto login is enabled when starting as a live CD. The password is blank
If you choose to install, the live session user does not get added, and instead the login becomes the default username and password that is configured at the installation wizard
Problems:
Enlightenment in wizard mode sometimes doesn't show the cursor
Some KDE programs appear to crash in certian instances under Weston
sha512sum:
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2021-05-26
These ISOs are PRERELEASE. Using SVN Revision 6862,
They currently contain:
Wayland Libraries:
* Wayland Master
* Weston Master
Wayland Toolkits and Applications:
* Wayland enabled Clutter
* Wayland enabled SDL
* Wayland enabled GTK
* Wayland enabled Qt
* Wayland enabled EFL/Elementary
* Wayland enabled FreeGLUT
* Wayland enabled GLFW
* Wayland enabled mpv
* Wayland enabled gstreamer
* KDE Frameworks Wayland programs
* Native Calligra Wayland programs
Wayland Desktops:
* Weston's Example Desktop
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Liri
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Gnome-shell
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* KDE Plasma
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Enlightenment
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Wayfire
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Sway
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
Other Features:
* A graphical utility for configuring udev for weston multiseat/multi pointer
* A functional Wayland login manager written in Bash, that supports user switching and session selection, multiple seats, rotational session logs, and a wlprofile file.
* Mir
* waypipe for remote Wayland, and a script utility built around it, to make it easy to save and reuse connections. (Passwords are not saved)
New in these ISOs since 2020-05-20:
The kernel is built with simplekms patches cherrypicked in https://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg262273.html . This allows modesetting on
a wider variety of hardware that didn't have it before, and reduces the need for falling back to using framebuffer devices.
For better graphical support (gfxmode=keep), the ISOs now boot with GRUB instead of ISOLINUX. These ISOs should still be bootable with isohybrid.
The ISO now only has TWO boot options (down from 12), instead of the confusing list of standard mode, software mode, framebuffer mode, and options to try to force a framebuffer size.
The only options now are standard mode, and forcing software rendering
An experemental feature called vTTYs replace the text mode VTs, they are replaced by a full screen instance of VTE running on Cage. The Kernel mode VTs still run if init=/bin/bash is passed, or cage fails to run.
These look nicer than the text mode TTYs, and don't bleed keyboard input from other seats.
Tier 1 pacakges now come from Debian Bullseye
Wine Wayland has been added, however to save ISO space, there is no multi-arch, so the bitness of the executables that Wine can run are dependant on the bitness of the ISO
Qt6 Wayland and small examples has been added
ISO Building:
- /sys is no longer bind-mounted into the build chroots
- /dev is no longer bind-mounted into the build chroots. Instead a small ram fs with stdio/stdin/stdout files, and pts and shm replaces it
- The build_core script runs the download processes as a non-root user. Now the non-root user is a member of a non-standard group.
It is not 'nogroup' anymore, but a different GID, that way it reduces the likelyhood that git, if exploited by a repositoty server that has been
breached, less files will be readable to it.
More corrections to importing dbus things in /opt to work systemwide
The WaylandLoginManager:
- The greeter now starts on the more traditional TTY7 instead of TTY8.
- Fix handling of enforcing software rendering for user sessions when chosen
- Correctly gets XDG_SEAT and XDG_SESSION_ID variables within user sessions, when some Desktop Environments like gnome unset them.
- Correctly excludes greeters when counting active sessions in the shutdown prompts.
- Supports WKS backends, in addition to KMS, FB, WL.
Where WL sessions were nested sessions relying on Weston's fullscreen-shell
fullscreen-shell support is rare, as it needs support written for it. WKS
backend is nested sessions using Weston's Kiosk Shell, which does NOT need special support.
This allows desktops such as Enlightenment to run, when there is no mode setting.
The need for this is much rarer now, thank to the simplekms driver...
- Handles /tmp/.X11-unix correctly even in the per-session private tmps
- Dropped the wlmforcevblankoff option, this was never needed, and part of a failed attempt to light up DisplayLink2 devices.
A fix that ended up being fixed in the udl kernel driver itself
Usage:
There is no password for the Live Session User (beccaholic), while auto login is enabled when starting as a live CD. The password is blank
If you choose to install, the live session user does not get added, and instead the login becomes the default username and password that is configured at the installation wizard
Problems:
pipewire-pulse fails on 32 bit, otherwise pulseaudio would have been replaced by pipewire-pulse
sha512sum:
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2020-05-20
These ISOs are RELEASE. Using SVN Revision 6436,
By "Release" this means that this is suitable for full preview use, however
many pacakges are development versions, this is not suitable for production.
They currently contain:
Wayland Libraries:
* Wayland Master
* Weston Master
Wayland Toolkits and Applications:
* Wayland enabled Clutter
* Wayland enabled SDL
* Wayland enabled GTK
* Wayland enabled Qt
* Wayland enabled EFL/Elementary
* Wayland enabled FreeGLUT
* Wayland enabled GLFW
* Wayland enabled mpv
* Wayland enabled gstreamer
* KDE Frameworks Wayland programs
* Native Calligra Wayland programs
Wayland Desktops:
* Weston's Example Desktop
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Liri
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Gnome-shell
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* KDE Plasma
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Enlightenment
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Wayfire
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Sway
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
Other Features:
* A graphical utility for configuring udev for weston multiseat/multi pointer
* A rudimentary but functional Wayland login manager written in Bash, that supports user switching and session selection, and multiple seats.
* Mir
* waypipe for remote Wayland, and a script utility built around it, to make it easy to save and reuse connections. (Passwords are not saved)
* wlsudo (like kdesudo)
* wlhost
New in these ISOs since 2016:
Due to demand, the non-free AMD graphics firmware is included in the ISOs
ISO Building:
The ISO squashfs compression is now actually xz. (The remastersys config was not actually setting it as xz)
The ISO build process now uses /var/cache/ instead of ~
The ISO build process can utilize tmpfs ramdisks
Checkinstall now uses overlayfs, instead of installwatch, and its LD_PRELOAD hook.
The ISOs are smaller
The Revisions files now specify APTFETCHDATESECONDS to specify the time of a Debian Snapshot, so that when rebuilding an ISO, there can be better reproductability,
In the unlikely event that something changed on Tier 1 (Debian Stable), and something needs to be better tested, or to better rebuild an older ISO.
This is not full hash based reproductability as there is too much variance with creation dates.
The xwaylandapp wrapper script works around an xwayland DPI problem on some VMs, so text isn't microscopic.
(SECURITY)waylandloginmanager now handles password authentication more robustly and securly in the embedded expect script in the AuthenticateUser function
The utility for configuring udev to enable Weston's multipointer feature:
Now supports configuring logind seats
Now supports sound and video cards (For logind seats)
Can configure new devices incrementally.
Doesn't start any dialogs as root
Is more user friendlty
The WaylandLoginManager:
Is now multi seat capable, and automatically detects seats. Demonstration is here: https://streamable.com/69vdr
No longer prompts for a password for the live session user, even for sessions started after the autologin session.
Is quieter on the journal as it starts non-root commands with runuser instead of sudo.
Shows the users display name in the switch user dialog if it is set, instead of login name
Now locks auto-login sessions upon startup (Only if installed, and not live)
Prevents crashing sessions from locking the TTYs
Locks sessions when swiching user
More robust in handling crashing sessions
No longer constantly uses TTY 63. TTY 63 is only opened now when a fallback text mode dialog needs to be shown
Parsing the wsession files is much more efficient with subprocesses.
is more efficient when idle
Session switching has been made smoother, and the initial startup of the greeter is less flickery
A ~/.local/wlprofile file is now supported (Similar to ~/.xprofile)
The logs are moved to ~/.cache/wlsessionlogs (Similar to ~/.xsession-errors , only with more log rotation)
The greeters are marked as greeters with PAM, so they don't appear as user sessions
Each login session has it's own /tmp using systemd
Desktop Environments:
Hawaii has been replaced by Liri. (the successor to Hawaii)
Latte dock, Amarok and Kvantum are added
Orbital and Orbment is dropped
The wlroots version of Sway is now used
GTK 4 is availible, in a very limited way for now. (nothing is yet *using* GTK 4, except the gtk4-demo)
More of the gnome stack is compiled now in /opt, instead of relying on the 1st tier packages
Wayfire is now added
External Utilites:
The test_RBOS_ISO.sh script now no longer executes graphical programs (such as Zenity, and your terminal emulator) as root
A new external utility rebuild_iso_with_nonfree_firmware.sh allows users to rebuild the ISOs, and include needed firmware.
New Inclusions
Vulkan is now added
Mesa now has the swr drivers built
Tier 1 packages are from Debian Buster, but now uses the kernel from Debian Bullseye for better hardware compatibility.
pipewire is added
waypipe is added
supertux is not on this ISO because of size
/opt libraries are now added in ld.so.conf, this done since kwin, and sway use SETCAP features, where SETCAP binaries unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH when run
Dbus services under /opt are linked, so that more dbus services actually work
Usage:
There is no password for the Live Session User (beccaholic), while auto login is enabled when starting as a live CD. The password is blank
If you choose to install, the live session user does not get added, and instead the login becomes the default username and password that is configured at the installation wizard
Using QEMU/libvirt, it is recommended to use the "VGA" video card, as Weston runs with Kernel Mode Setting on it.
Problems and Notes:
In order for SSH to work for waypipe, one must run
sudo dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server
This is left like this, as openssh is installed, but not everyone wants an SSH port open by default.
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