A New X.Org-Free Wayland LiveCD Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A New X.Org-Free Wayland LiveCD Released

For technology demos and testing, the "first true Wayland LiveCD" has been released that can start Wayland directly without depending upon an X.Org environment...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTM3ODY

[Nille]

Michael your linking habits are pain in the ass.

[storma]

Michael your linking habits are pain in the ass.

This. That first link really should of been to the project home page.

[peppercats]

"Rebecca black os"
lol....

[teresaejunior]

Security

The other day someone said now X is going to die. Is Wayland really better than X? In which aspects?

If I see the advantage, I think I'll fork this OS to fix the security issues. Probably Annoying Orange OS or 1DOS (sounds good!).

[Rexilion]

Just gave it a quick spin. I used a grub.cfg like this so you could just pop the .iso on / and reboot and use it from the GRUB menu without burning the .iso or dd'ing it to a partition.

set rblack=/RebeccaBlackLinux_i386.iso
menuentry 'Rebecca Black Linux' {
	loopback	loop	$rblack
	linux	(loop)/casper/vmlinuz iso-scan/filename=${rblack} boot=casper noeject noprompt quiet splash
	initrd	(loop)/casper/initrd.gz
}

Quick impressions:

• Thank god no recognizable artwork included
• Modified KUbuntu disk (KDE is nice...) anyway...
• Seems to work nice, many demo's included
• No NetworkManager (browsing!)
• Looks stable (did not crash in 5 minutes testing)
• Drop down menu's do drop down, but now where you expect them to drop-down (hehe)
• beccaholic ?

If this is being done with just a small fraction of the codesize compared to X, just wow.

[nerdopolis]

Just gave it a quick spin. I used a grub.cfg like this so you could just pop the .iso on / and reboot and use it from the GRUB menu without burning the .iso or dd'ing it to a partition.

set rblack=/RebeccaBlackLinux_i386.iso
menuentry 'Rebecca Black Linux' {
	loopback	loop	$rblack
	linux	(loop)/casper/vmlinuz iso-scan/filename=${rblack} boot=casper noeject noprompt quiet splash
	initrd	(loop)/casper/initrd.gz
}

Quick impressions:

• Thank god no recognizable artwork included
• Modified KUbuntu disk (KDE is nice...) anyway...
• Seems to work nice, many demo's included
• No NetworkManager (browsing!)
• Looks stable (did not crash in 5 minutes testing)
• Drop down menu's do drop down, but now where you expect them to drop-down (hehe)
• beccaholic ?

If this is being done with just a small fraction of the codesize compared to X, just wow.

There should be a networkmanager, but you have to start it manually. It should be in the panel at the top, as the wifi icon next to the speaker icon.

[Akka]

I had never heard about this Rebecca black before phoronix wrote about this "fan" distro with wayland?
Is it really a real "fan distro" or part of some sort of strange viral marketing stunt?

[nerdopolis]

I had never heard about this Rebecca black before phoronix wrote about this "fan" distro with wayland?
Is it really a real "fan distro" or part of some sort of strange viral marketing stunt?

This is Rebecca Black

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0_IpvujFWE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OxWD85Ngz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEXgUdNGkts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbZKQIUZvM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0

[GreatEmerald]

No more reliance on X? Well, that just put a whole new meaning to X Free 86