RebeccaBlackOS 2024-08-12 är tillgängligt med en samling miljöer baserade på Wayland

Distribution release of RebeccaBlackOS 2024-08-12 has been formed, aimed at introducing the latest developments related to Wayland support in various desktop environments and applications. The distribution is built on a Debian package base and includes fresh builds of Wayland libraries (a snapshot from the master branch), the Weston compositing server, and preconfigured environments for working on top of Wayland: KDE, GNOME, Wayfire (with MATE components), Sway, LXQt, and Xfce. The environment selection is made through the login manager menu, allowing for launching a shell from an already running environment in the form of a nested session. An ISO image of 1.7 GB is available for download.

The distribution includes fresh versions of libraries such as Clutter, SDL, GTK, Qt, FreeGLUT, GLFW, KDE Frameworks, and Gstreamer, built with Wayland support, as well as the Xwayland component, which allows running conventional X applications in an environment formed using the compositor. servern Weston. The distribution also contains Wayland client variants of the media player mpv and KDE applications. A special graphical configurator is provided for configuring udev and multiseat configuration parameters, where multiple people can work simultaneously at a single desktop with their own keyboards and mice (each user has an independent cursor). RDP support is included in Weston. The waypipe utility for remote application launching based on Wayland is included in the package.

Huvudsakliga förändringar:

• The package base has been updated to Debian 12.
• The Linux kernel has been updated to version 6.10. The DRM Panic mode is enabled to display a visually informative color report in the style of a 'blue screen of death' in case of failures.
• The ttynull driver is included, and patches have been applied to use /dev/ttynull as the default console (allowing systemd to correctly display logs via /dev/console).
• Qt5 has been removed from the distribution, leaving only Qt6.
• Support for SAK (Secure Attention Key) has been transferred from systemd-logind 257 to the systemd-logind 252 included in the distribution.
• In the waylandloginmanager login manager, the ability to run multiple parallel sessions for a single user has been provided. Instead of zenity for organizing the interface, kdialog is used. The session switcher interface displays the names of the sessions.
• The more user-friendly wlsu has replaced wlsuhelper.
• Enhetlig design av GRUBs bootmeny, bootlogotyp och inloggningshanterare. Tidigare start av Plymouth-logotypen har säkerställts under startprocessen.
• En ny session med skrivbordsmiljön LXQt har lagts till.
• Projekten Liri, Mir, Enlightenment och Wine har tagits bort från byggsatsen. Liri har tagits bort på grund av bristen på en färdig port baserad på Qt6, och de övriga på grund av begränsningar i storleken på ISO-avbildningen.
• På grund av problem med byggandet av QtWebEngine i en 32-bitars chroot-miljö har skapandet av ISO-avbildningar för 32-bitars system upphört.

Källa: opennet.ru