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RebeccaBlackOS 2016-02-08 Screencast and Screenshots

RebeccaBlackOS 2016-02-08 Screencast

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ISOs are now EFI bootable, (both the 32 bit and 64 bit ISOs). For booting on Macs, you may need rEFInd http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/ . This has not been tested on Macs. EFI booting has only been tested on QEMU and TianoCore, and also Virtualbox

To comply with Canonical's new licensing requirements for Ubuntu, Ubuntu is no longer the base tier 1 distribution providing core packages. Debian Testing is now used for tier 1 packages. Casper and Lupin from Ubuntu are pulled in from BZR, which allow Debian Testing ISOs to be bootable, when generated with Remastersys

It would be theoretically possible to switch back to Ubuntu just by changing the debootstrap locations, and imported /etc/sources.list , no changes related to switching to Debian should have broken compatibility

Ubuiquity is no longer the installer. The installer is now Calamares, https://github.com/calamares/ which is an early distribution independent installer.

KDE Wayland is a selectable option, and is usable

waylandloginmanager instead of dumping the log output of all sessions to ~/waylandsession.log preserves 5 log files from each session to ~/wlsessionlogs/waylandsession_($DATESTAMP).log where $DATESTAMP is the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 12:00 UTC that the session was started (the UNIX epoch). This allows for better logging, and not using too much space from all the logs of all the users sessions waylandloginmanager now relies on systemd v227, which no longer requires a combo of openvt and runuser (although openvt is still used for the fallback menus). This allows existing upstream provided PAM config files to not have to be overwritten

https://sourceforge.net/projects/reb...es/2016-02-08/

RebeccaBlackOS 2016-02-08 Screenshots

How do you make screencasts? Some gizmo you plug between PC and monitor? I've often wanted to have screenshot of something right after boot. Last time I snapped a pic with my phone. :)

My test of OS is:

1. SSH -> shell in from other PC and config NFS, then mount it on other PC. check.
2. Xorg -> web browser -> hit LQ. check.
3. dl some youtube junk -> video player (with audio!). check.
4. doc suite (libreoffice/Abiword/et al) -> make a 3x3 table and save as PDF. check.

Those are the big ones, everything else is tiddly user pref.

They're also the ones that most often snag.

1. SSH is pinch point. Some versions are impossible to get along with.

2. Xorg is usually fine, really improved over the years. Some permissions issues, and getting screen resolution to your liking can be a bit of a dance. I still had to twiddle Modelines on my last install to get 1920x1080. Remember XF86Config?

3. If YT actually plays in your browser, either praise the heavens or curse the dark regions. Audio can be issue, but the answer is usually simple: stuff PA in trash and get alsa working. Usually /etc/asound.conf is the culprit.

4. If you get usable PDF from doc suite it means the whole shebang is good to go.

Some of them used to be tall order. These days it's pretty easy to get a fully trained Linux box up & running.

We'd covered this a few times in the past (including in the sticky in this forum if I recall correctly). The screencasts are currently made by simply capturing the entire session to webm.

--jeremy