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source-based Linux using SPS

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SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-13

SPS Linux live images for 2026-08-31-13. Use these instead of -12. -12 already had the Mesa SPIRV / gcc cc1 / Fastfetch ASCII fixes. This set rebuilds every image from current extra so Distro branding is on the disc, not only on GitHub: - live `/etc/os-release` points at https://splux.robertflexx.dev - `/usr/share/pixmaps/splux.png` is the SPS PNG - KInfoCenter `kcm-about-distrorc` and plasma-welcome intro match extra - bundled extra includes splux-base release 5 (PNG, about-distro, welcome) 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. 2749d8ae977602b185352245d1802e2c8998e7fda90cc03b20178959003fded0 sps-live-tty.iso 05cdb462454bfec1076f7e3c97d9cf2044740a1f890c9f06b02fb530e9d06f6f

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SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-12

SPS Linux live images for 2026-08-31-12. Use these instead of -11. Plasma on -11 respawned startplasma forever: Mesa GBM could not dlopen libSPIRV-Tools.so, so KWin reported no DRM device even when /dev/dri/card0 existed. The same disc was missing Xwayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Breeze color schemes, and xdg-document-portal. -11 also still let setup die with `C compiler cannot create executables` after crt1.o was added: gcc's driver links, but cc1 needs libmpc and libisl, which were not on the disc. This set also ships the current Fastfetch Splux ASCII and extra recipes where fastfetch depends on splux-base, so the default config applies when Fastfetch is installed from extra or sget. 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 -> s

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SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-11

SPS Linux live images for 2026-08-31-11. Use these instead of -10. setup on -10 fetched alsa-lib, then died with `C compiler cannot create executables`. The disc had gcc and ld but not glibc's crt1.o or the libc.so linker script. Also in this line (from -9/-10): kwin_wayland_wrapper, live DNS, udev before dhcpcd. 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. b2bc1f26b57ec317b62e9de7aae712f9519f09f648b9a0a9a3bc61ab6d6fea4a sps-live-tty.iso 7c2eee8b67559cad18c7cedbfcc4b67a46b5dd4d271df551c0df46dd5662e70e sps-live-tty-slim.iso a4d6265fe0a83d82b100d1c163966ac63bc61292856505147e6c6a0e87e34be1 sps-live-plasma.iso Flash the tty image for a source install. Slim has no gcc.

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SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-10

SPS Linux live images for 2026-08-31-10. Use these instead of -9. Plasma on -8/-9 could start GPU init then die without kwin_wayland_wrapper. All live images had internet by IP but no DNS: no nsswitch.conf, no resolv.conf, and dhcpcd ran before udev. What changed: - kwin_wayland_wrapper, libxcb-cursor, and xdg-permission-store on Plasma - /etc/resolv.conf with 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 (DHCP may overwrite) - /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns - udev before dhcpcd; dhcpcd on slim discs; busybox udhcpc fallback 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. 9961d81f5cb6db9f2a26dc7f4c52546233483da501fdc6142834af7bca501456 sps-live-tty.iso 92f642ab3c76ed22a1348c7700281d2d3006ef8242bc05d72a2a

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SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-9

SPS Linux live images for 2026-08-31-9. Use these instead of -8. Plasma on -8 loaded GPU modules, then died with `error starting process "kwin_wayland_wrapper"` and `Failed to create wl_display`. No compositor means no window. What changed: - Copy `/usr/bin/kwin_wayland_wrapper`. startplasma looks it up on PATH to open the Wayland socket; kwin_wayland alone is not enough. - Copy libxcb-cursor so the xcb Qt plugin can load if Wayland is down. - Copy xdg-permission-store so xdg-desktop-portal can start. - Symlink `qdbus` to qdbus6 when the host only ships qdbus6. 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. 8c60b572e31e95a96248715e1256b31ecb9ce6fa82c4b5b500af11f276a2dad1 sps-live-tty.

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SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-8

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 QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland, so KWin can create the compositor instead of connecting to a missing socket. - live-rc loads virtio_gpu, qxl, cirrus_qemu, 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 c

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SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-7

SPS Linux live images for 2026-08-31-7. Use these instead of -6. Guided setup on -6 died after the bootloader screen with `guided partitioning requires --format yes`. Plasma on -6 could lose the system D-Bus when the host `system-local.conf` was copied onto the disc. What changed: - Guided layouts ask to erase the disk in the dialog. Scripts still need `--format yes`. - The bootloader screen can run grub-install after a second confirm on the chosen disk. Notes-only is still the default. - After packages land, known services (SDDM, dbus, sshd, NetworkManager, and others) are enabled for systemd or OpenRC. Pass `--services no` to skip. Installing sddm as an extra enables the matching unit. - Plasma + systemd no longer pulls elogind. - Live Plasma always runs the system bus as root and starts it in sysinit, so a copied host dbus config cannot drop privileges to a missing message

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SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-6

Bootable hybrid ISOs for **SPS Linux** (informally Splux). Flash, boot, run `setup`. This set replaces [live-2026-08-31-5](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/SPS/releases/tag/live-2026-08-31-5). **-5** TTY/`setup` printed `no disks found (is lsblk on PATH?)` because this builder ships `lsblk` as `/bin/lsblk` and the ISO only copied `/usr/bin/lsblk`. Every image now copies partition tools by command name (`lsblk`, `sfdisk`, `mkfs.ext4`, `mkfs.vfat`, `mkswap`, `cfdisk`, …). `zsh` is not on the live disc. It is an optional `shells-extra` package after install. Live `/bin/sh` is busybox. QEMU still needs a writable disk besides the CD, for example `-drive file=disk.img,if=virtio`. Guided layouts skip `rom`/`loop` devices. ## Images - **sps-live-tty.iso** (618M) - **sps-live-tty-slim.iso** (36M) - **sps-live-plasma.iso** (1.3G) ## SHA-256 ``` 480e58d1c4d57fd52d6651fe057a8af1fa32d0397c42d0e0e3ff1c

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SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-5

Bootable hybrid ISOs for **SPS Linux** (informally Splux). Flash, boot, run `setup`. This set replaces [live-2026-08-31-4](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/SPS/releases/tag/live-2026-08-31-4). TTY and slim images are unchanged; Plasma is rebuilt. Plasma on **-4** reached D-Bus, then died: `org.kde.KSplash.service` runs `/usr/bin/plasma_waitforname`, which was not on the disc (`Failed to execute program org.kde.KSplash`). This image copies `plasma_waitforname`, `ksplashqml`, `plasma_session`, and seeds `/root/.config/kdedefaults`. `org.freedesktop.locale1` is systemd-localed; live PID 1 is busybox, so that log line is expected and not fatal. ## Images - **sps-live-tty.iso** (617M): console install image (same as -4). - **sps-live-tty-slim.iso** (31M): tools only (same as -4). - **sps-live-plasma.iso** (1.3G): host Plasma/Wayland, nouveau, Konsole → `setup`. ## SHA-256 ``` 6d85be2c95f038934c

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SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-4

Bootable hybrid ISOs for **SPS Linux** (informally Splux). Flash, boot, run `setup`. SPS the package system is separate from this distro. These images install SPS Linux. An LFS tree can still use `src`/`sget` without this installer. This set replaces [live-2026-08-31-3](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/SPS/releases/tag/live-2026-08-31-3). Live `/bin/sh` is always busybox. Installed Splux still defaults to **systemd**; OpenRC is the other choice. This builder has no systemd binaries, so live PID 1 is busybox init. The squashfs is **zstd**, so the live root mounts in seconds. The old xz image sat on `loop0` while a multi-gigabyte Plasma root decompressed. Plasma starts a UTF-8 session bus (`dbus-run-session -- startplasma-wayland`); the live system bus runs as root because this disc has no `messagebus` account. `setup` copies the bundled `dir` recipe trees from the live image and indexes the

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SPS Linux live ISOs (Splux, 2026-08-31)

Bootable hybrid ISOs for **SPS Linux** (informally Splux). Flash, boot, run `setup`. SPS the package system is separate from this distro. These images install SPS Linux. An LFS tree can still use `src`/`sget` without this installer. I wrote the installer (`setup`) and the ISO builder (`mkiso`). Package definitions are in [sps-core](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/sps-core) and [sps-extra](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/sps-extra). This set replaces [live-2026-08-31-2](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/SPS/releases/tag/live-2026-08-31-2). Live `/bin/sh` is always busybox so getty cannot respawn on a missing `libtinfo.so.6`. Installed Splux still defaults to **systemd**; OpenRC is the other choice. This builder has no systemd binaries, so live PID 1 is busybox init. The disc carries current sps-core and sps-extra recipes, including Flatpak libraries, GitHub CLI, extra QoL tools, and power-prof

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SPS Linux live ISOs (Splux, 2026-08-31)

Bootable hybrid ISOs for **SPS Linux** (informally Splux). Flash, boot, run `setup`. SPS the package system is separate from this distro. These images install SPS Linux. An LFS tree can still use `src`/`sget` without this installer. I wrote the installer (`setup`) and the ISO builder (`mkiso`). Package definitions are in [sps-core](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/sps-core) and [sps-extra](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/sps-extra). This set replaces [live-2026-08-31](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/SPS/releases/tag/live-2026-08-31). PID 1 is now a real init (busybox on this builder; systemd when the host has it). Consoles are children. The earlier image exec'd a shell as PID 1 and panicked in QEMU (`Attempted to kill init`, exit 127). `setup` can partition disks, pick drivers and microcode, and install systemd or OpenRC. ## Images - **sps-live-tty.iso** (509M): recipes, host seed compiler,

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SPS live TTY ISO (2026-08-31)

Bootable hybrid ISOs for SPS. Flash, boot to a TTY, mount a destination filesystem on /mnt, and run setup. I wrote the installer (`setup`) and the ISO builder (`mkiso`). Package definitions are in [sps-core](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/sps-core) and [sps-extra](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/sps-extra). ## Images - **sps-live-tty.iso** (509M) — recipes plus a host seed compiler and kernel modules. This is the one to flash for a daily-driver install. `setup` builds packages from source on the live system into `/mnt`. - **sps-live-tty-slim.iso** (27M) — recipes and BusyBox only. Useful to try the installer UI; it cannot compile without a compiler. Firmware blobs are omitted (they are huge). Rebuild locally with `mkiso --with-firmware` if you need them on the live disc. NVIDIA still needs a matching kernel after first boot. A Plasma install compiles Qt and KDE from source and takes a lon