SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-8

SPS Linux live images for 2026-08-31-8.

Use these instead of -7. A TTY Plasma install on -7 died with
systemd conflicts with elogind (both in this transaction) because
polkit still hard-depended elogind. The Plasma live session on -7 got
past D-Bus and then died with Failed to create wl_display.

What changed:

• polkit optional systemd/elogind (sps-extra). OpenRC still gets elogind
  from init-openrc. systemd Plasma installs no longer pull both.
• Live Plasma no longer sets QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland, so KWin can create
  the compositor instead of connecting to a missing socket.
• live-rc loads virtio_gpu, qxl, cirrus_qemu, bochs, and related DRM
  modules. The session waits for /dev/dri/card0.
• Mesa libgallium/libEGL_mesa, fontconfig, DejaVu, KWin data, udev DRM
  rules, and xdg-desktop-portal land on the Plasma disc.

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.

b696bd9849358ec7e7c550695c87ce1c13044a3c77e92aa51ae90be0a4ca0656  sps-live-tty.iso
a7e5aa026892aa4d5de21b7bd80ba1c1c0ec5cd6b2753d915446bcd61f878b30  sps-live-tty-slim.iso
b23996a19c5d738a9248e5a6a5d2920189127b9696b59b4467646dfada7410fc  sps-live-plasma.iso

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