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@n3rdopolis n3rdopolis released this 22 Oct 12:21
2015-10-21
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These ISOs are PRE-RELEASE. Using SVN Revision 3934,
Not everything has been tested

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)
  • Orbital (selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu) (NOT on this ISO)
  • Hawaii (selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
  • Papyros (selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu) (Only works from nested currently) (NOT on this ISO)
  • Gnome-shell (selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
    **Does not work on Virtualbox, except it can run nested
  • Enlightenment E19 (selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu, however XWayland applications don't work when nested)
    **Does not work on Virtualbox, except it can run nested
  • Orbment tiling Wayland DE _Does not work on Virtualbox (selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
    *_Use super+enter for terminal, and super+r for dmenu
  • Sway tiling Wayland DE *Does not work on Virtualbox (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.
  • RDP enabled Weston
New in these ISOs:

Ubuntu is no longer the base tier 1 distribution providing core packages... Debian Testing is now used. Casper and Lupin from Ubuntu are pulled in from BZR, which allow it to work as a LiveCD
  These changes (other then the specified repositiories) are all conditioned in. It would be theoretically possible to switch back to Ubuntu just by changing the debootstrap locations, and imported /etc/sources.list

Ubuiquity is no longer the installer. The installer is now Calamares, https://github.com/calamares/ which is an early distro independant install.

KDE Wayland is a selectable option, and is usable to an extent this time

waylandloginmanager instead of dumping the log output of all sessions to ~/waylandsession.log preserves 5 log files from each session to ~/wlsessionlogs/waylandsession_($DATESTAMP).log where $DATESTAMP is the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 12:00 UTC that the session was started (the UNIX epoch). This allows for better logging, and not using too much space from all the logs of all the users sessions

waylandloginmanager now relies on systemd v227, which no longer requires a combo of openvt and runuser (although openvt is still used for the fallback menus). This allows existing upstream provided PAM config files to not have to be overwritten

build_core: Downloads of repositiories are now done as the nobody user. This requires a filesystem that supports ACLs. most do. This is only for users building thier own ISOs. Also the handling of revision files is more secure. They are now processed in a restricted shell as a non root user, so that users building an ISO with specifc upstream revisions don't get compromised by a fake revisions file. This probably effects an extreme minority of people

Usage:

There is no password for the Live Session User (beccaholic), while autologin is enabled when starting as a live CD, if you get prompted for a password when starting a second login session, the password field is blank

If you choose to install, the live session user does not get added, and instead the login becomes the default usernme and password that is configured at the installation wizard

Problems and Notes:

  When created with the Ubuntu startup creator, the menu UI for the boot selection doesn't work, and falls back to text mode. sometimes.

  Orbital will be back on a later ISO when libweston is merged into main Weston.

  Papyros is not on this ISO

md5sum:

59b3d1c02552c1ab5dc0342b8c81357f  RebeccaBlackOS_amd64.iso
95397eb3967a15a1e912690968781345  RebeccaBlackOS_DevDbg_amd64.iso
fa4aed2cd08c692732e5d87204843df2  RebeccaBlackOS_Revisions_amd64.txt
9a2e760fec6fe3d0dda628cfb516e9fa  RebeccaBlackOS_Source_amd64.tar.gz


0fdd87a370d3f124b2da7ac3213c10de  RebeccaBlackOS_i386.iso
1ea1a1a97a3ef98d8e1f406e409ad983  RebeccaBlackOS_DevDbg_i386.iso
fa4aed2cd08c692732e5d87204843df2  RebeccaBlackOS_Revisions_i386.txt
9e85933f6e4a8cd6fca88d733d5819a1  RebeccaBlackOS_Source_i386.tar.gz
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