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Simple Linux 0.2.28
Smaller images and the right name. The installer is rebuilt for the name change; the offline payload, the stage3 and the kernel files are the ones of 0.2.27. Checked in QEMU, not on real hardware: the minimal image boots to the installer and the shell, the GUI image boots to the desktop.
- The system calls itself Simple Linux.
/etc/os-releasesaysSimple Linuxon the live medium and on every installed system, so Noctalia's System panel, fastfetch and similar tools stop saying "Gentoo".IDstaysgentoo, because tools that read it mean the package base. - About 45 MB less in each image (GUI 637 → 592 MiB, minimal 434 → 387 MiB, the offline ones shrink the same way). The live system no longer carries what it never uses: the compiler and binutils (the installer builds the kernel inside the installed system, which has its own), the GRUB files (the boot loader is Limine), and firmware for hardware no PC with a screen has (SDIO and SoC Wi-Fi boards, server NICs and storage adapters, TV and capture cards, ISA/PCMCIA-era devices, serial adapters, ADSL modems).
os-prober, Python forequery, and the Wi-Fi, GPU, Bluetooth and audio firmware stay. - Not checked: an install from these images, and the GUI installer's pages after the size cuts.