ANNOUNCE: Wayland Live CD that starts directly to Wayland

Thu May 30 20:26:34 PDT 2013

On Monday, May 27, 2013 01:12:57 PM Ilyes Gouta wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Rune Kjær Svendsen <runesvend at gmail.com[1]> wrote:

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta at gmail.com[2]> 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[3]> 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[4] 

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It seems I'm already building everything with quite alot of symbols already, I'm building with the default make options, and I set checkinstall to keep the symbols.

Although my next release might have two ISOs, where one does not have the symbols and other things, so it's smaller

But am I currently missing symbols in my larger ISO?

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