At the GUADEC 2020 conference, a report was presented , dedicated to the development of the project “«. the plans for developing “GNOME OS” as a platform for creating an operating system have now transformed into considering “GNOME OS” as a build that can be used for continuous integration, simplifying application testing in the codebase being developed for the next release, assessing development progress, checking hardware compatibility, and experimenting with the user interface.
Until recently were intended to run in virtual machines. The new initiative is related to the effort to support the use of “GNOME OS” on real hardware. New builds are being developed for x86_64 and ARM systems (Pinebook Pro, Rock 64, Raspberry Pi 4). Compared to builds for virtual machines, the ability to boot on UEFI systems has been added, along with power management tools, support for printing, Bluetooth, WiFi, sound cards, microphones, touchscreens, graphics cards, and webcams. Missing Flatpak portals for GTK+ have been added. Flatpak packages for application development (GNOME Builder + SDK) are ready.
To form the system core in GNOME OS, the system (the system image is atomically updated from a Git-like repository), similar to the projects and . Initialization is performed using Systemd. The graphical environment is based on Mesa drivers, Wayland, and XWayland. For installing additional applications, Flatpak is suggested. The installer used is based on .
Source: opennet.ru
