Thanks for putting up the github ISO mirror -- Just wanted to say howdy and let you know people are out there playing with RBOS. :) Sometimes the silence is deafening; from my own projects, it always feels good to hear from someone playing around with them.
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:21 PM, nerdopolis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > I have pushed out new ISO files for the Wayland Live CD project, named > after my favorite celebrity (Rebecca Black). > > These have Wayland an Weston master, which when built, were a few commits > ahead of the 1.8 releases of Wayland and Weston. > > Notably: > The bash waylandloginmanager no longer uses weston-launch to start Wayland > sessions for the user. Instead runuser is used to call up the sessions. > This enhances security, as weston-launch's FD's are no longer > being leaked to non weston sessions. > Permissions to /dev/fb0 are no longer granted to all users of the plugdev > group. Instead the UACCESS permission on the framebuffer devices is > configured > This enhances security for potential multiuser systems with no KMS > drivers, won't be able to read the framebuffer when their session is not in > the active VT. > Calligra applications are back, as they build against QT 5, from the WIP > frameworks branch > FreeGLUT and GLFW are compiled to use the Wayland backend, and installed > into /opt along with the other Wayland toolkits > FreeGLUT and GLFW appear to only support one compiled in backend. > SWC has been replaced with Orbment > Ubuntu Vivid is the base, which has a new enough version of logind by > default, which means that the number of first tier files that gets > clobbered by the second tier compiled packages dropped quite a bit, as no > longer need to compile my own systemd, or include dozens of modified > systemd unit files from a Fedora Live CD in the SVN. > The only files that get overwritten by compiled packages are in > /etc/ and /usr/include . Some files leak out of the selected prefix of /opt > in a few packages... > > The KDE session that is selectable, but it is currently too early to be > usable.KDE _applications_ work, and plasmashell even runs in Weston, > although most of the shell features such as window list and desktop > selections do NOT, along with the placement of the panels, and desktop > window are haphazard. Just not kwin_wayland yet... > > > Releases are on Sourceforge, and I'm also trying a github mirror.Only the > ISOs with out the development headers, and debug symbols can fit in GitHub > https://sourceforge.net/projects/rebeccablackos/files/2015-06-05/ > https://github.com/n3rdopolis/rebeccablackos/releases/tag/2015-06-05 > > > Release notes: (Sorry about the length) > --------------------------------------- > These ISOs are RELEASE. Using SVN Revision 3615, > > 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) > * 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) > **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 > 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:--------- > > The WaylandLoginManager no longer uses weston-launch to call Wayland > session, and instead uses runuser. This requires logind v216 due to > bugfixes. This is for better security, as non-weston sessions would not > hang up the file descriptors that weston-launch opens. > > Global permissions to the plugdev group are no longer granted to > framebuffer devices. Now they are granted by udev, by setting the UACCESS > attribute, and applying a workaround in Weston. > > Wayland Login Manager supports starting with an option to disable vblank, > as vblank causes some problems in some hardware platforms > > Except for the setting the proper variables for a user session (with > /usr/bin/wlruntime_vars), and config file for the login manager display, > and configuring runuser to use systemd with the PAM configuration files, > all of the functionality of the WaylandLoginManager is now in > /usr/bin/waylandloginmanager > > Systemd is now provided upstream by Ubuntu, which drastically reduces the > number of first tier files that gets overwritten to about 2. > > Thanks to Mannerov, mesa master is now used, as software rendering is > brought back in mainline Mesa. > > Gnome sessions are now called by gnome-session, instead of calling > gnome-shell directly, which fixes a few issues with logoff not working. > > Replaced SWC with Orbment > > New Wayland toolkits added: FreeGLUT, and GLFW. > > KDE Wayland is a selectable option, but it's currently too early to be > usable > > --------- > > ***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: > > The Grub menu in Utopic+ ISOs seem to no longer be compatible with the > USB startup creator, it seems to be an upstream issue with Utopic+ as I saw > the same behavior with a vanilla Utopic ISO . To start the live > session on the menu-less USB disk, you will have to type the word "live" > and press enter. > > Orbital will be back on a later ISO when libweston is merged into main > Weston. > > > md5sum: > 4f88258032860964bfb4e4a7b55bf0ef RebeccaBlackOS_amd64.iso > bf628c6e1cf869648b25482f846bb85a RebeccaBlackOS_DevDbg_amd64.iso > 691469e31fb52bdad3eb987a0dc0bc4e RebeccaBlackOS_Revisions_amd64.txt > 34aed0d313bea2a2861fa21a44e10e83 RebeccaBlackOS_Source_amd64.tar.gz > > cffdfcf933a3b5f06afbfa08fe8b3ce3 RebeccaBlackOS_i386.iso > ea6720708b9f2338fc8f91d08a930221 RebeccaBlackOS_DevDbg_i386.iso > 691469e31fb52bdad3eb987a0dc0bc4e RebeccaBlackOS_Revisions_i386.txt > c361baee38a099228fda1612b09883d4 RebeccaBlackOS_Source_i386.tar.gz > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel > -- Graham Cantin | (408) 890-7463
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