The release of the distribution Rebeccablackos 2024-08-12 has been announced, targeting users who want to explore the latest advancements in Wayland support across various desktop environments and applications. Based on the Debian package base, this distribution features fresh Wayland Library Builds, the Weston composite server, and is compatible with Wayland KDE, GNOME, WayFire, SWAY, LXQT, and XFCE. Users can choose their preferred environment through the entrance manager’s menu and also switch between different shells within an advanced session. The ISO-image for download is available at 1.7 GB.
Rebeccablackos 2024-08-12 includes updated versions of libraries like Clutter, SDL, GTK, QT, Freeglut, GLFW, KDE Frameworks, and GStreamer, all compiled with Wayland support. The Xwayland component enables running traditional X-applications within the Wayland environment. Additionally, the distribution comes with the MPV media player and KDE applications optimized for Wayland. A graphical configurator is provided for configuring UDEV and Multiseat-configurations, allowing multiple users to work simultaneously with independent cursors. Weston also supports RDP, and a Waypipe utility is included for remote application launching based on Wayland.
Main changes in this release include:
- Base updated to Debian 12.
- Linux kernel updated to version 6.10, featuring the DRM Panic mode for display failures.
- Inclusion of the Ttynull driver with patches for using /dev/ttynull as the default console.
- Removal of QT5 in favor of Qt6.
- Enhancements to Systemd-Logind for improved support.
- Improved functionality in the entrance manager for Wayland login managers.
- Optimization of WLSU usage.
- Unified design for the GRUB boot menu, loading screensaver, and entrance manager.
- Addition of a new LXQT session.
- Exclusion of projects like Liri, mir, enlightenment, and Wine to reduce ISO-image size.
- Discontinuation of 32-bit system ISO-image due to Qtwebengine assembly issues in a 32-bit Chroot-environment.