20231002

What’s new?

A summary of changes that took place:

• A glaucus ISO is finally being released for the first time! This marks a new huge milestone for glaucus after years of hard work and dedication. The ISO supports booting in both BIOS/MBR and UEFI modes, but is still in beta phase and in read-only mode (overlayfs for read-write mode and EROFS support have been proposed to booster and will hopefully be provided in the following releases)
• glaucus is now self-hosting, being able to bootstrap itself under itself! This is also another huge milestone, and has resulted in a reduction in the number of packages being included in the bootstrap phase, making it faster and more minimal
• libudev-zero is now the default libudev implementation
• mdevd is now the default udevd implementation
• muon is now the default meson implementation
• mold is no longer the default linker (see this and this)
• OpenBSD M4 is no longer the default M4 implementation (autoconf requires GNU M4)
• Arch Linux kernel and modules are being used for this release
• Updated cerata

Included cerata (79 packages)

This release contains the following cerata:

• acl
• attr
• autoconf
• automake
• bash
• binutils
• byacc
• bzip2
• cerata
• diffutils
• e2fsprogs
• execline
• expat
• file
• findutils
• flex
• gcc
• gettext-tiny
• gperf
• grep
• help2man
• hydroskeleton
• iana-etc
• iproute2
• iputils
• kmod
• lbzip2
• lbzip2-utils
• less
• libarchive
• libcap
• libcap-ng
• libedit
• libressl
• libtool
• libudev-zero
• linux
• linux-headers
• lz4
• m4
• make
• mandoc
• mawk
• mdevd
• mimalloc
• muon
• musl
• musl-fts
• musl-utils
• netbsd-curses
• patch
• pcre2
• pigz
• pkgconf
• plocate
• procps-ng
• psmisc
• radula
• rsync
• s6
• s6-boot-scripts
• s6-linux-init
• s6-rc
• samurai
• sdhcp
• sed
• shadow
• skalibs
• toybox
• tzcode
• tzdata
• util-linux
• vim
• wget2
• xxhash
• xz
• yash
• zlib-ng
• zstd

b3sum glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20231002.img.zst

2b3f40d5c5d54b93b9a4fbc8264fd152e6d7741258e0aa301b40184baec220d6

b3sum glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20231002.iso.zst

a6755844fd86df97819b31bee6e9c0692bd6bf8b2de5ed212f4c3781c51f496b

How to run the IMG file?

Extract glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20231002.img.zst

tar --use-compress-program 'zstd -d -T0 --long=31' -xvf glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20231002.img.zst  -C .

Run via QEMU

qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -machine q35,accel=kvm \
  -cpu host \
  -m 1G \
  -name glaucus \
  -drive file=glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20231002.img,format=raw \
  -display gtk,gl=on \
  -vga qxl \
  -rtc base=localtime

How to run the ISO file?

Extract glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20231002.iso.zst

tar --use-compress-program 'zstd -d -T0 --long=31' -xvf glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20231002.iso.zst  -C .

Run via QEMU (UEFI)

qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -machine q35,accel=kvm \
  -cpu host \
  -boot order=d \
  -m 1G \
  -name glaucus \
  -cdrom glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20231002.iso \
  -display gtk,gl=on \
  -vga qxl \
  -rtc base=localtime \
  -bios /usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF.fd

Run via QEMU (BIOS/MBR)

qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -machine q35,accel=kvm \
  -cpu host \
  -boot order=d \
  -m 1G \
  -name glaucus \
  -cdrom glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20231002.iso \
  -display gtk,gl=on \
  -vga qxl \
  -rtc base=localtime

You’ll be automatically logged in as root.

To access additional ttys use ALT + arrow keys Right/Left.

How to Get Internet Access Under QEMU?

ip link set eth0 up
sdhcp eth0

You can then run ping or wget2.