In November, eweOS advanced its repository with significant system improvements, package enhancements, and expanded mirror presence, embodying its dedication to versatility, efficiency, and community engagement.

Image Updates

• squashfs is now compressed using zstd
• Desktop live images will be built with LXQt, a PR is presented and will be merged soon
• Desktop live images will be built with Xfce, a PR is presented and will be merged soon

Package Highlights

322 PRs merged in total during November 2024. 45% (145) of them are automated

See a full list here.

There are 1090 packages on eweOS in total 1063 (97.9%) are available on riscv64 836 (77.0%) are available on loongarch64

Kernel

• linux 6.12.1
• Enabled nbd and mmc drivers by default.

Toolchain / Programming Languages

• llvm 19.1.3 with float 128 fixes.
• rust is now available on loongarch64
• java23-openjdk 23.0.1 (New) with X11 functions and AWT removed is now available on x86_64 and aarch64
• js128 128.4.0

Utils

• kmod 33 is now part of base-baremetal and provides modutils
• busybox now has builtin console-related utils and more commandline features
• git 2.47.1
• tmux 3.5_a
• minimodem 0.24.1 (New)
• strace 6.12
• catnest 0.3.0
• graphviz 12.2.0
• flashrom 1.4.0 (New)

Libraries

• mesa 24.2.7
• protobuf 28.3
• texlive-texmf 20240312 (New)
• icu 76.1
• Qt 6.8 is shipped with musl-related backports
• gtk 4.16.7
• libinput 1.27.0
• sdl2 2.30.9

Desktop

• LXQt 2.1.0 (New) with X11 functions removed, which is the first usable DE in eweOS. Unfortunately, however, at the request of the maintainer, eweOS users and developers should be careful not to report bugs in eweOS to the LXQt project.
• Xfce 4.19 (New) with X11 functions disabled, which is the second usable DE in eweOS
• pipewire 1.2.6, with gstreamer support enabled
• NetworkManager 1.50.0 (New)
• Hyprland 0.45.2
• Wine 9.22
• telegram-desktop 5.7.2
• mousepad 0.6.3

Games

• prismlauncher 9.1 (New), Minecraft without flatpak is now verified as possible
• minetest 5.10.0

Misc

• binfmt-manager now ships a dinit service description

More

• ...and more!

Infra

Workflow

• ewe-pkgtool 0.3.0 is released

Repository

50G     ./eweos
100G    ./eweos-snapshots

3.3G    ./eweos-images
24G     ./eweos-images-snapshots

Upstream

• Hyprland crash is reported and fixed in upstream

Community

• A new official mirror is deplyed at St. Louis, United States.
• The first donation from a community supporter was received, developers will follow up with public disclosure rule of donation and its usage.

Regular Meeting