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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