ANNOUNCE: Wayland Live CD that starts directly to Wayland

[Ilyes Gouta]

Hi,

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Rune Kjær Svendsen <runesvend at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Would it be possible to place that ISO image on a usb key and to boot
>> from it?
>>
> If you're using GRUB2 you can do even better. Just place the script
> attached to this mail in the file /etc/grub.d/60_isoboot
>
> Then place your ISO in the directory /boot/images/
>
> Now just run "update-grub" and the ISO will automatically be added to the
> GRUB boot menu, and you can boot from it directly from the GRUB boot menu.
>

Cool! Thanks for the tip.

I got the image running on my laptop which has a radeon r600 GPU, and it
was all smooth, snappy and functional. Yet I think the Qt integration still
needs a bit of work, especially with window resizing and widgets placement.
Chrome ran correctly and I do remember it crashed when opening YouTube.

nerdopolis, you could make it even more interesting by building the entire
stack w/ debug symbols and providing a way to testers to report crashes and
gdb core dumps, etc.

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
>>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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