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@n3rdopolis n3rdopolis released this 29 Aug 21:19
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2015-08-29
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These ISOs are PRE-RELEASE. Using SVN Revision 3867,
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 selectable in 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

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.

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

md5sum:

011e2bf7ddfc2e67839aea8299e68559  RebeccaBlackOS_amd64.iso
47024efa823bdc5a4c36fe3e7fc1e599  RebeccaBlackOS_DevDbg_amd64.iso
5babcb2d1bf398419e6f1e9198c8c8ae  RebeccaBlackOS_Revisions_amd64.txt
182e6a3b183c7bf9718dec86389bc582  RebeccaBlackOS_Source_i386.tar.gz

fb5492320cde9d8f6ffb3aba3970cc5d  RebeccaBlackOS_i386.iso
517dbd1c04a40ba8e30e0c6dc1631749  RebeccaBlackOS_DevDbg_i386.iso
5babcb2d1bf398419e6f1e9198c8c8ae  RebeccaBlackOS_Revisions_i386.txt
925750baaffaad4ac13f840192292948  RebeccaBlackOS_Source_amd64.tar.gz
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