20240404

What’s new?

A summary of changes that took place:

• glaucus is not affected by the backdoor found in XZ Utils, as it targeted sshd binaries linked against libsystemd and glibc
• The glaucus ISO has been improved with a dedicated initramfs to support OverlayFS and EROFS using toybox and mdevd
• nsss is now the default NSS implementation
• slibtool is now the default libtool implementation
• utmps is now the default utmpx implementation (w and last are now working securely on musl)
• The bootstrap process has been further optimized resulting in a reduction in the number of packages being used
• Arch Linux kernel and modules are being used for this release (CachyOS kernel will be considered for future releases)
• Updated cerata

Included cerata (73 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
• grep
• help2man
• hydroskeleton
• iproute2
• iputils
• kmod
• less
• libarchive
• libcap
• libcap-ng
• libedit
• libressl
• libtool
• libudev-zero
• linux
• linux-headers
• lz4
• m4
• make
• mandoc
• mawk
• mdevd
• muon
• musl
• musl-fts
• musl-utils
• netbsd-curses
• nsss
• patch
• pcre2
• pigz
• pkgconf
• procps-ng
• psmisc
• radula
• rsync
• s6
• s6-boot-scripts
• s6-linux-init
• s6-rc
• samurai
• sdhcp
• sed
• shadow
• skalibs
• toybox
• util-linux
• utmps
• vim
• wget2
• xxhash
• xz
• yash
• zlib-ng
• zstd

b3sum glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20240404.img.zst

208dae713607eca00df65096cf324a22be97624a7fee3633fc7dad38147e788b

b3sum glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20240404.iso.zst

deecc01ffadca0e95ce46cec5abdb20f3a4ea2938e7ee3bef7977285d3ec4361

How to run the IMG file?

Extract glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20240404.img.zst

zstd -d -T0 --long glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20240404.img.zst

Run via QEMU

qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -machine q35,accel=kvm \
  -cpu host \
  -m 1G \
  -name glaucus \
  -drive file=glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20240404.img,format=raw \
  -display gtk,gl=on \
  -vga qxl \
  -rtc base=localtime

How to run the ISO file?

Extract glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20240404.iso.zst

zstd -d -T0 --long glaucus-s6-x86-64-v3-20240404.iso.zst

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-v3-20240404.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-v3-20240404.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.