Simple Linux 0.2.33

More software to choose from in the installer, nothing else changes in the live system. Sizes (0.2.32 → 0.2.33): GUI 514 → 517 MiB, minimal 362 → 363 MiB, GUI offline 1704 → 1706 MiB, minimal offline 1552 → 1553 MiB. Checked in QEMU, not on real hardware: the GUI image booted and its Software page lists the new groups; the packages below were installed in a Gentoo chroot and started in the live GUI session. An install of the new groups with the installer itself was not run.

• Four new software groups on the Software page: Steam, Minecraft (PineconeMC, the Prism Launcher fork with Ely.by accounts), Creative Craft apps (PhotoCraft, LightCraft, VectorCraft, DesignCraft, FilmCraft, EffectCraft) and Craft office apps (WordCraft, GridCraft, DeckCraft, PdfCraft). The Craft apps are the open-source programs of the ArtCraft project (Apache-2.0 or MIT): early versions, and they run on the CPU where there is no usable graphics card.
• Their own overlay. Portage has none of these programs (except Steam, which is in the steam-overlay), so the installer carries a small overlay, slp-local, with ebuilds that install the ready-made releases from GitHub, pinned by checksum; Steam's overlay is cloned from git. Ticking Steam is the acceptance of Valve's licence.
• Steam rebuilds some packages for 32-bit (util-linux, fontconfig, expat, Mesa...), so the installer runs emerge --changed-use when a group asks for 32-bit libraries. The dependency plan resolves (about 310 packages on a minimal system); Steam itself was not installed or started.
• Screenshots for Telegram, GIMP, mpv, VLC, LibreOffice, PineconeMC and the ten Craft apps on the Software page (27 in all).
• These groups are not on the offline images (they download); the binhost build leaves them out.

Also in this release: 0.2.32 (never published on its own)

Sizes (0.2.31 → 0.2.32): GUI 513 → 514 MiB, minimal 361 → 362 MiB, GUI offline 1703 → 1704 MiB, minimal offline 1551 → 1552 MiB. Checked in QEMU, not on real hardware: the finished GUI ISO booted headless, SSH was tried against it (below), and its installer's Software page was opened in the live session and looked at. Headless installs of the minimal flavor and on legacy BIOS ran to the end; a UEFI install and a GUI-flavor install were not repeated with these final images.

• Flavors and mix-ins, like Funtoo's epro. A system is one flavor (minimal, desktop, workstation, and live for this image) plus mix-ins (16 software groups, 6 graphics cards). The data lives in profiles/ of gentoo-installer and is compiled into the installer; the new slp command (show, list, info, init, flavor, mix-in, apply, rebuild, install) changes it on an installed system and writes the Portage files that go with it (package.use, package.accept_keywords, package.license, the set @slp). Both installers have a flavor choice; headless installs read GENTOO_INSTALLER_FLAVOR. The live image is built from the live flavor.
• Software page with descriptions and screenshots. One scrolling page: the flavor, then groups that expand to the packages in them, each with a description (all 70 packages) and, for 11 of them, a screenshot shipped inside the installer. Apps that are not in the live image have no screenshot.
• Opt-in SSH in the live session. sshd starts only when a key is found: an authorized_keys file on a volume labelled SIMPLE_SSH, or ssh/authorized_keys on the live medium. Keys only: password and keyboard-interactive logins are off. Checked: with the key disk the right key logs in, a password and another key are refused; without it nothing listens on port 22. Not found why the same test never answered in the virtual-GPU (GL) VM; the headless one works.
• Fixed: the kernel build ran on every online install in 0.2.27–0.2.31, not only when it was asked for. It now runs only when chosen (GENTOO_INSTALLER_KERNEL_BUILD=1 or the page's option).
• Fixed: installs on legacy BIOS (GPT disks) failed for lack of a BIOS boot partition; the installer now makes a 1 MiB one at the end of the disk. Not covered: BIOS together with the "next to what is there" free-space placement, which makes no BIOS boot partition.
• Known noise: the live console prints "user.tester failed to start"; AMD graphics without LLVM is still untested.