Splux Linux

SPS Linux live images for 2026-08-31-8.

Use these instead of -7. A TTY Plasma install on -7 died with systemd conflicts with elogind (both in this transaction) because polkit still hard-depended elogind. The Plasma live session on -7 got past D-Bus and then died with Failed to create wl_display.

What changed:

• polkit optional systemd/elogind (sps-extra). OpenRC still gets elogind

from init-openrc. systemd Plasma installs no longer pull both.

• Live Plasma no longer sets QTQPAPLATFORM=wayland, so KWin can create

the compositor instead of connecting to a missing socket.

• live-rc loads virtiogpu, qxl, cirrusqemu, bochs, and related DRM

modules. The session waits for /dev/dri/card0.

• Mesa libgallium/libEGL_mesa, fontconfig, DejaVu, KWin data, udev DRM

rules, and xdg-desktop-portal land on the Plasma disc.

Assets:

• sps-live-tty.iso — console live image with recipes and a compiler
• sps-live-tty-slim.iso — small console image; setup needs the network
• sps-live-plasma.iso — Plasma/Wayland live session (Konsole -> setup)

Checksums are in SHA256SUMS.

b696bd9849358ec7e7c550695c87ce1c13044a3c77e92aa51ae90be0a4ca0656  sps-live-tty.iso
a7e5aa026892aa4d5de21b7bd80ba1c1c0ec5cd6b2753d915446bcd61f878b30  sps-live-tty-slim.iso
b23996a19c5d738a9248e5a6a5d2920189127b9696b59b4467646dfada7410fc  sps-live-plasma.iso

QEMU still needs a writable target disk besides the ISO, for example -drive file=disk.img,if=virtio. Prefer virtio-gpu or stdvga. zsh is not on the live disc.