SPS Linux live ISOs (Splux, 2026-08-31)

Bootable hybrid ISOs for SPS Linux (informally Splux). Flash, boot, run setup.

SPS the package system is separate from this distro. These images install SPS Linux. An LFS tree can still use src/sget without this installer.

I wrote the installer (setup) and the ISO builder (mkiso). Package definitions are in sps-core and sps-extra.

This set replaces live-2026-08-31. PID 1 is now a real init (busybox on this builder; systemd when the host has it). Consoles are children. The earlier image exec'd a shell as PID 1 and panicked in QEMU (Attempted to kill init, exit 127). setup can partition disks, pick drivers and microcode, and install systemd or OpenRC.

Images

• sps-live-tty.iso (509M): recipes, host seed compiler, kernel modules. This is the one to flash for a console install. setup builds packages from source on the live system into the target.
• sps-live-tty-slim.iso (27M): recipes and BusyBox only. Useful to try the installer UI; it cannot compile without a compiler.
• sps-live-plasma.iso (1.1G): copies this host's Plasma/Wayland stack. NVIDIA live graphics use nouveau. Open Konsole and run setup. A from-source Plasma install still compiles Qt and KDE and takes a long time.

Firmware blobs are omitted (they are huge). Rebuild locally with mkiso --with-firmware if you need them on the live disc.

Guided partitioning waits until the last confirmation. grub-install still needs --install-bootloader and --disk.

Flash

dd if=sps-live-tty.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync

Plasma:

dd if=sps-live-plasma.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync

QEMU (serial console, TTY image):

qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom sps-live-tty.iso -m 2G -nographic

SHA-256

bac96221223a8a773c148b1eb3066dca95c9a43c641ccf39b91868c94710e82f  sps-live-tty.iso
c62296bb0c953c4ca274bc4cea1ba4985f1f8acf5e51558f9f5dd65d83053741  sps-live-tty-slim.iso
6358e6b900ffd6e4ec7601c5615871d2e82a754b4c690f21109ecd5ec14f65c7  sps-live-plasma.iso