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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-2026-08-31-2.

Live /bin/sh is always busybox so getty cannot respawn on a missing libtinfo.so.6. Installed Splux still defaults to systemd; OpenRC is the other choice. This builder has no systemd binaries, so live PID 1 is busybox init. The disc carries current sps-core and sps-extra recipes, including Flatpak libraries, GitHub CLI, extra QoL tools, and power-profiles-daemon units.

Images

  • sps-live-tty.iso (520M): 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 (30M): tools and BusyBox only. Useful to try the installer UI; it cannot compile without a compiler.
  • sps-live-plasma.iso (1.2G): 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

620e3953baf7ecdbcbba61a88ed85246d189e10e522ee167c9621109ad680b40  sps-live-tty.iso
98b5994a544e119c1f30ab7b04463e3c8b6db2561ff391ab37277b4d7b9a5632  sps-live-tty-slim.iso
cfe70a4a8393ea801b3cae5fcd7b1e28711d74c1e2cc313153a4e8f9d9c6fa63  sps-live-plasma.iso
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