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Wayland LiveCD Updated Against v1.5, Uses Systemd On Ubuntu

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 28 May 2014 at 10:00 AM EDT. 30 Comments

For those looking for an easy way to play with Wayland/Weston 1.5 along with various Wayland-enabled open-source desktop applications, RebeccaBlackOS has been updated.

Rebecca Black OS has been updated against Wayland/Weston 1.5, has Wayland-enabled GTK / SDL / EFL / Qt / KDE Frameworks 5 support, and shell support for Weston, Orbital, Hawaii, GNOME Shell Wayland, Enlightenment, and SWC. FreeRDP support is now enabled for Weston with this new ISO release. Systemd 212 has also been added to the operating system's Ubuntu 14.04 LTS base for better handling of Mutter-Wayland not running as root.

Those interested in more information on this updated Wayland Linux LiveCD can find the announcement on the Wayland mailing list while the new version can be downloaded from SourceForge.

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