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@zackmsa777-a11y zackmsa777-a11y released this 10 Jul 15:52
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SageOS v5.1-beta4

Security-focused Linux distro (Debian bookworm base) with categorical "mission packs" — networking, web, password, wireless, sniffing, forensics, AD — installable/removable via sage-pkg and a friendly sage-security whiptail menu.

What's fixed since v5.1-beta3

beta3's device-probe timeout fix was real but didn't address the actual VirtualBox stall — testers hit the exact same freeze point on beta3. Root-caused it properly this time:

  • The real bug: the live-boot init script was reading the compressed squashfs rootfs live off the virtual CD-ROM for every file access throughout the session. QEMU's virtio disks handle this fine; VirtualBox's ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM emulation is much slower for this kind of random-access compressed read, so it looked frozen (it wasn't infinite — just very slow).
  • The fix: the squashfs (456MB) is now copied into RAM once at boot (if enough memory is available), then mounted from there. Every read after that is instant, for the entire session — not just a boot speedup.
  • Along the way, also found and fixed a real latent bug: the initramfs never actually created /proc, /sys, /dev as directories before trying to mount them, so those mounts were silently failing this whole time (didn't matter until this fix needed to read /proc/meminfo). Added the missing mkdir -p.
  • Kept beta3's 5-second timeout on device-probing as a safety net.

Verified end-to-end via real ISO boot (not kernel-bypass): RAM copy triggers correctly, overlay mounts, switch_root succeeds, lands at a working shell.

Same tools/rootfs as beta2/beta3 (networking, web, password, wireless, sniffing, forensics, AD packs; persistence via sage-persistence-setup) — this release only touches the initramfs boot logic.

x86_64 only — QEMU (Linux) and VirtualBox are the supported/tested targets.

Download

  • ISO (503MB): see assets below
  • Torrent: sageos-5.1-beta4.iso.torrent (HTTP webseed enabled)
  • Magnet: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:cc11a24cde1d35031984eb8b615dd4940e90f512&dn=sageos-5.1-beta4.iso&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&ws=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fzackmsa777-a11y%2Fsageos%2Freleases%2Fdownload%2Fv5.1-beta4%2Fsageos-5.1-beta4.iso

Still labeled beta4 — pending confirmation before promoting to stable.

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