SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-7

SPS Linux live images for 2026-08-31-7.

Use these instead of -6. Guided setup on -6 died after the bootloader
screen with guided partitioning requires --format yes. Plasma on -6
could lose the system D-Bus when the host system-local.conf was copied
onto the disc.

What changed:

• Guided layouts ask to erase the disk in the dialog. Scripts still need
  --format yes.
• The bootloader screen can run grub-install after a second confirm on
  the chosen disk. Notes-only is still the default.
• After packages land, known services (SDDM, dbus, sshd, NetworkManager,
  and others) are enabled for systemd or OpenRC. Pass --services no to
  skip. Installing sddm as an extra enables the matching unit.
• Plasma + systemd no longer pulls elogind.
• Live Plasma always runs the system bus as root and starts it in
  sysinit, so a copied host dbus config cannot drop privileges to a
  missing messagebus account.

Assets:

• sps-live-tty.iso — console live image with recipes and a compiler
• sps-live-tty-slim.iso — small console image; setup needs the network
• sps-live-plasma.iso — Plasma/Wayland live session (Konsole -> setup)

Checksums are in SHA256SUMS.

ea9c9e484bce2bb7b53d47a3973647b79258e20b099439f3f1af2f2f1589e98b  sps-live-tty.iso
3c31ee57dfa0d5cba28fa28018c7e011e75410c187c1ebebde660c5b67c64b47  sps-live-tty-slim.iso
d1980a5d1d8540e3bf004c66826a3c78574e5264c214ab345a5cdb73999ad819  sps-live-plasma.iso

QEMU still needs a writable target disk besides the ISO, for example
-drive file=disk.img,if=virtio. zsh is not on the live disc.