thinRoot 20240930

This is release 20240930 of thinRoot with the following bugfixes and feature changes:

🚧 Changes:

_{For all changes, see the full commit log.}

• e26fefb - add x264 and x265 support to ffmpeg to ensure cameras stream can be properly transcoded into h264/h265 (e.g. within xfreerdp). Also disabled the wayland freeprdp client sind it is not required for our application.
• a059616 - update qutselect to latest 3.9
• 36f527c - add "chrome" to qutselect-disconnect.sh to also kill chrome by the hotkey daemon
• 96b0b07 - make sure /opt is owned by truser:truser
• 5430513 - add BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNSS and BR2_PACKAGE_CUPS as dependencies for google-chrome pkg.
• 5ef7da0 - re-add close button to openbox window config so that we can close app windows.
• 665e6e9 - add BR2_PACKAGE_YAD to allow cmd-line driven graphical elements to popup in certain situations (progress bars, etc.)
• 1125fd5 - add missing BR2_PACKAGE_LIBKRB5
• 65a9984 - add CONFIG_MEDIA_SUPPORT and other video kernel options to allow future video device (webcam) use for certain applications.

👪 Contributors (alphabetically):

• @jens-maus

📦 Download:

The following installation archives can be downloaded for different hardware platforms. To verify their integrity a sha256 checksum is provided as well.

• Intel NUC:
  _{📦 thinRoot-20240930-generic-x86_64.img
  SHA256: 43bc563509bedd444ee9ea361c3ac8d39ca603d8a98a82da9111b2690f78f9ab}

thinRoot 20240923

This is release 20240923 of thinRoot with the following bugfixes and feature changes:

🚧 Changes:

_{For all changes, see the full commit log.}

• a5e70c8 - update upstream kernel to 6.6.52
• d3c8a00 - update buildroot to latest 2024.08 and adapted upstream patches.
• 6b9ed26 - update qutselect to 3.5 for improved log output for thinlinc+vnc sessions.
• a3ae9e0 - fix issue with fallback hostname defaulting to "thinroot" and not using the one from the thinroot.hosts file instead.
• f143f35 - fix some bugs in the pattern matching and field extraction routines in S42LoadNetFiles which could result in the wrong group file being used.

👪 Contributors (alphabetically):

• @jens-maus

📦 Download:

The following installation archives can be downloaded for different hardware platforms. To verify their integrity a sha256 checksum is provided as well.

• Generic x86_64:
  _{📦 thinRoot-20240923-generic-x86_64.img
  SHA256: d2f0d0415896f20fc08fea68ec24e8452df0a7796d2b2e40b66e5720c9259dd0}

thinRoot 20240801

This is release 20240801 of thinRoot with the following bugfixes and feature changes:

🚧 Changes:

_{For all changes, see the full commit log.}

• added first basic support for SPICE VDI protocol support by adding own custom spice-gtk, phodav and virt-viewer package allowing to run SPICE connections via remote-viewer including USB device redirection, local folder redirections and audio/video support including possibility to route a USB webcam via SPICE.
• update qutselect to 3.3 which comes with SPICE via ProxmoxVE connection support to be able to connect to VDI VMs providing a SPICE GFX card and SPICE channels to connect usb or other devices from a client system connecting to these SPICE enabled VMs.
• update upstream kernel to 6.6.43
• make sure truser group has access to all USB devices under /dev/bus
• update buildroot to 2024.05.1
• update ThinLinc client to 4.17.0-3543
• rename intelnuc to generic-x86_64 since we are not fixed to IntelNUC machines anymore.

👪 Contributors (alphabetically):

• @jens-maus

📦 Download:

The following installation archives can be downloaded for different hardware platforms. To verify their integrity a sha256 checksum is provided as well.

• Generic x86_64:
  _{📦 thinRoot-20240801-generic-x86_64.img
  SHA256: 7cb9fdc025a23453802563867a1e89609f54ceb532d8a72261afd397c8033949}

thinRoot 20240409

This is release 20240409 of thinRoot with the following bugfixes and feature changes:

🚧 Changes:

_{For all changes, see the full commit log.}

• bump to final qutselect 3.0 version with Qt6 and simplified interface support.
• update ThinLinc client to latest 4.16.0-3389 version.
• add bash wrapper and remove our own qutselect connect scripts which are now part of official qutselect project.
• optimize global buildroot config.
• bump upstream kernel to latest 6.6.25 LTS.
• enable MPTCP support.
• disable CONFIG_WERROR since buildroot removes it anyway.
• remove rng-tools because in newer linux kernel versions /dev/random is not blocking anymore (5.6+) and the standard kernel provied entropy pool is strong enough (5.10+) so that tools like rng-tools or haveged are not required anymore and just unnecessarily consume CPU time. (cf. nhorman/rng-tools#195 (comment), https://forum.manjaro.org/t/low-entropy-on-my-system/119233).
• disable busybox wget app since we use upstream wget instead and updated busybox config accordingly.
• update rpi kernel to latest stable_20240124.
• update rpi-eeprom to latest version.

👪 Contributors (alphabetically):

• @jens-maus

📦 Download:

The following installation archives can be downloaded for different hardware platforms. To verify their integrity a sha256 checksum is provided as well.

• Intel NUC:
  _{📦 thinRoot-20240409-intelnuc.img
  SHA256: 7aa9284f2d549d80443c1e67fcdaf0fd6d8cae9880e1d530b374926ecf0636f8}

thinRoot 20240327

This is release 20240327 of thinRoot with the following bugfixes and feature changes:

🚧 Changes:

_{For all changes, see the full commit log.}

• update upstream linux kernel to 6.6.23 LTS
• reworked buildroot config environment and kernel config files to be based on fragment config files.
• bump buildroot to latest 2024.02.1
• integrate fix for missing /var/lock in /etc/inittab.

👪 Contributors (alphabetically):

• @jens-maus

📦 Download:

The following installation archives can be downloaded for different hardware platforms. To verify their integrity a sha256 checksum is provided as well.

• Intel NUC:
  _{📦 thinRoot-20240327-intelnuc.img
  SHA256: 9723ed0e48bb9b2dd8e95ee527cc3eee75af69864f4377c7dec28a5c3ab1021e}

thinRoot 20230313

This is release 20230313 of thinRoot with the following bugfixes and feature changes:

🚧 Changes:

_{For all changes, see the full commit log.}

• bumped linux kernel to latest 6.1.18 LTS
• bumped buildroot to latest 2023.02
• fixed shellcheck warning/errors
• fixed chrony drift file permission issue and added more standard settings to default chrony.conf
• updated xprintidle package to latest 0.2.5 version fixing the build also.
• fixed qt-webengine-kiosk dependencies
• added new 0014-qt5webengine-py311-fix upstream buildroot patch to fix python 3.11 related build issues in the qt5webengine-chromium package.
• added new qt-kiosk-browser package to potentially use this as an alternative for the old/obsolete qt-webengine-kiosk package.
• enable fq_codel network scheduler in all kernel configs and enable it in global sysctl.conf for improved network performance.
• added release/snapshot workflow job and release template file
• added package consistentcy check and some more linter checks.

👪 Contributors (alphabetically):

• @jens-maus

📦 Download:

The following installation archives can be downloaded for different hardware platforms. To verify their integrity a sha256 checksum is provided as well.

• Intel NUC:
  _{📦 thinRoot-20230313-intelnuc.img
  SHA256: e4a5cf02fc71bebb310094664a24615638561a2d809f3c7ac5a515be46f4b6af}

thinRoot 20230208

Changes:

• updated buildroot to 2022.08.3
• instead of using the "sync" option when mounting USB data drives - which slows down transfer speed considerably and also increases the wear level load - we ensure a good synced media via decreased vm.dirty_expire_centisecs and vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs to 5 seconds. Thus we use a global sysctl.conf now with reasonable values.

thinRoot 20221019

Changes:

• updated upstream kernel to 5.15.74 LTS.
• updated buildroot to 2022.08 and adapted patchset accordingly.
• added +gfx-thin-client option to queselect rdp callout script to feature advanced xfreerdp 2.8.0 settings.
• added missing CROCUS gallium driver for mesa3d and added 20-intel.conf xorg config file to take care of correct DRI/device OpenGL settings.
• use the powersave scaling governor as the default one.

thinRoot 20220706

Changes:

• updated upstream kernel to 5.15.50 LTS.
• updated buildroot to 2022.05 and adapted patchset accordingly.
• updated rpi-eeprom package to latest pieeprom-2022-04-26 version.
• retired obsolete qt-webkit-kiosk package in favour of qt-webengine-kiosk.
• added -x jitter option to rngd startup to disable performance hungry jitter RNG source.

thinRoot 20220309

Changes:

• updated upstream kernel to 5.10.104 LTS.
• updated buildroot to 2022.02 and adapted patchset accordingly.
• added /video option to xfreerdp startup script to improve vide playback capabilities.