ANNOUNCE: Wayland Live CD that starts directly to Wayland

[Ilyes Gouta]

Hi,

Would it be possible to place that ISO image on a usb key and to boot from
it?

Ilyes
On May 24, 2013 11:01 PM, "nerdopolis" <bluescreen_avenger at verizon.net>
wrote:

> **
>
> New Wayland Live CD / First true Wayland Live CD.
>
>
>
> Hi. Today I pushed out a new ISO of my Wayland Live CD project, which is
> named for my favorite celebrity.
>
>
>
> For this new Wayland CD, I wrote a new login manager with Bash and Zenity
> and Expect (and Script) that fully runs on a Wayland server (weston).
>
>
>
> Now X is no longer involved in the boot process, and X does not start,
> (unless you use an X application with xwayland), because I replaced LightDM
> with the new loginmanager
>
>
>
> ***As far as security goes, it does store the password in the environment,
> but the users would have to be either root or daemon in order to be able to
> read the /proc/<pid>/environ, depending on the process. It also has a FIFO
> that has 777 access, but login info is never passed across it, just
> commands that tell it to switch user ttys, show a login prompt, show a
> shutdown menu, and tell the script who's weston owns a TTY. So if you
> decide to install it, and depend on security, be warned.***
>
>
>
> And just a note for people that switch ttys. The script tries to find the
> first available TTY automatically that isn't open, and it seems to favor
> TTY8, and then start using the next ones for the session. (Unlike what we
> are used to in X, where it defaults to TTY7)
>
>
>
> I got it to a point where it supports automatic login, picking a user from
> a list to login, and switching user sessions.
>
> It also supports specifying the desktop environment you want to use,
> similar to the X display managers, only for desktop environments that run
> as plugins under Weston. Right now, all I have is Weston's
> desktop-shell.so, but in the next ISO, I can add Weston's tablet-shell.so,
> as well as Hawaii's Weston plugin.
>
>
>
> It even works in virtualbox if there is a framebuffer, as if there is no
> kms, it falls back to using a framebuffer. (and if there is no framebuffer,
> it falls back to a text dialog).
>
> Under virtualbox, you might have to select a different boot option to
> force create a framebuffer.
>
>
>
> there's also a command line wizard
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> rbos-add-framebuffer
>
> It's basically an easy to use frontline for adding vga= argument to
> /etc/default/grub if you install the system. It does have ubiquity, it has
> the shortcut in the Desktop folder. (or the command).
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> You can download the new ISO here: (sorry, 32 bit only, as I need to work
> my 32 bit dpkg to install a 64 bit kernel again)
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/rebeccablackos/files/May%2024th%202013/RebeccaBlackLinux_i386.iso/download
>
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