minios-linux/minios-live v4.1.0

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v4.1

Interface Changes

• Updated the appearance of the Ultra edition to match the MiniOS 4 style.
• Updated the LXQT appearance to match the MiniOS 4 style.
• Added wallpapers for the Ultra, Minimum, and Home editions.
• Added icons for PDFShuffler and QDiskInfo to the elementary-minios theme; the HDSentinel icon has been removed.
• If the system does not support aufs, menu items for mounting and unmounting modules will be hidden.

Functional Changes

• Fixed the autologin bug in the Flux edition.
• Implemented support for storing data in raw images (similar to Ubuntu casper-rw).
• Added automatic detection of the size required for storing data in raw and dynfilefs images.
• Implemented full Ventoy support, both when storing data in images on the Ventoy partition and when using a separate partition for storing changes.
• Changed the principle of creating images for storing changes on POSIX-incompatible file systems: the size of the space in the image is now equal to the free space on the disk.
• bootinst.sh now requires root privileges to run.
• Added the ability to work with persistent storage when writing an ISO image using dd, balenaEtcher, and similar utilities. A partition for persistent changes is automatically created on the first boot.
• Added the ability to build with the C locale.
• Changed the init loading logic: copying the system to RAM now occurs before activating persistent changes.
• Added new kernel parameters that regulate copying the system to RAM (toram, toram=trim, toram=full).
• Changed the logic of running scripts at boot: startup no longer depends on the SCRIPTS variable in minios.conf.
• Improved the structure of the ISO image; added support for booting from EFI 32-bit.
• Adapted the sb2iso code for the new ISO format.
• Migrated ntfs3 and polkit management from init to systemd.
• Data cleanup during MiniOS build is moved to the build_bootstrap stage.
• The default initrd compression algorithm now depends on the system compression algorithm.
• Removed the -zstd suffix from image and module names.

Utility Changes

• Added the utilities mke2fs, e2fsck, lsblk, parted, partprobe to the initrd.
• QDiskInfo rewritten in QT5 and added to the repository.

Edition Changes

• Standard:
  • Added the MintStick utility for writing disk images and formatting flash drives.
  • Made changes to MintStick management for compatibility with Debian Trixie and Sid.
• Toolbox:
  • Added telnet, QEMU, QEMU Utils, Virtual Machine Manager, memtest, and VSCodium.
  • Replaced HDSentinel with QDiskInfo.
  • The default kernel is the standard Debian 12 kernel with no module hot-plugging support, but with Secure Boot support.
• Ultra:
  • Updated package lists, included all packages from Toolbox.
  • Removed telegram-desktop, gsmartcontrol, and ttf-mscorefonts-installer.
  • Returned to the list of available editions.
  • The default kernel is the standard Debian 12 kernel with no module hot-plugging support, but with Secure Boot support.
• Minimum: Reduced size by removing some packages.

Module Changes

• Removed the xfce-apps module; its functions are now performed by xfce-desktop.
• Graphical programs not included in the DE are moved to the apps module.
• The xorg module has been replaced by gui-base, which contains the base libraries GTK2, GTK3, QT5, icon themes, and other components necessary for all DEs.

System Changes

• Added virtres and novirtres to the kernel parameters.
• Added the ntfs3-dkms package to the repository for NTFS3 driver support in Debian kernels.
• Added quirks from the new version of libinput to support new input devices.
• Added dnsmasq-base to all editions.
• MiniOS kernel with AUFS support has been updated to 6.1.124.
• The pre-compiled wireless adapter modules have been replaced with DKMS modules.

Full Changelog: v4.0.0...v4.1.0