Splux Linux

SPS Linux live images for 2026-09-01-3.

Use these instead of -2.

-2 failed setup when building libxml2. Host meson is a setuptools wrapper; the disc copied python3 and the stdlib but not mesonbuild, so meson died with a Python traceback. Separately, libxml2 2.15 treats -Dpython as a feature option. -Dpython=false is invalid and meson aborts on "python".

This set:

• live Meson is meson.py next to mesonbuild, not the host setuptools stub
• Python stdlib is copied without host site-packages (PyQt and friends)
• CMake modules and the Perl library are on the disc
• setup probes meson --version before the first package build
• host samplerate.h and libxml2 headers are dropped from seeded includes
• libxml2 uses -Dpython=disabled; zlib/xz/pkgconf install into /usr/lib64
• meson itself installs without pip

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.

054929ad31848970b5c3c6f5320b5c8e652d1712dd0b77b6194771b1adf2b458  sps-live-tty.iso
a5a65e054af453489066d3f9349ce2508c80d23091dc2f04b916b2e498a7143d  sps-live-tty-slim.iso
73e73d28c0bf72b97a87b27e5ecd052203bf413973a96e0de54853441b008f63  sps-live-plasma.iso

Flash the tty image for a source install. Slim has no gcc.