thinRoot 20240409

This is release 20240409 of thinRoot with the following bugfixes and feature changes:

🚧 Changes:

_{For all changes, see the full commit log.}

• bump to final qutselect 3.0 version with Qt6 and simplified interface support.
• update ThinLinc client to latest 4.16.0-3389 version.
• add bash wrapper and remove our own qutselect connect scripts which are now part of official qutselect project.
• optimize global buildroot config.
• bump upstream kernel to latest 6.6.25 LTS.
• enable MPTCP support.
• disable CONFIG_WERROR since buildroot removes it anyway.
• remove rng-tools because in newer linux kernel versions /dev/random is not blocking anymore (5.6+) and the standard kernel provied entropy pool is strong enough (5.10+) so that tools like rng-tools or haveged are not required anymore and just unnecessarily consume CPU time. (cf. nhorman/rng-tools#195 (comment), https://forum.manjaro.org/t/low-entropy-on-my-system/119233).
• disable busybox wget app since we use upstream wget instead and updated busybox config accordingly.
• update rpi kernel to latest stable_20240124.
• update rpi-eeprom to latest version.

👪 Contributors (alphabetically):

• @jens-maus

📦 Download:

The following installation archives can be downloaded for different hardware platforms. To verify their integrity a sha256 checksum is provided as well.

• Intel NUC:
  _{📦 thinRoot-20240409-intelnuc.img
  SHA256: 7aa9284f2d549d80443c1e67fcdaf0fd6d8cae9880e1d530b374926ecf0636f8}

thinRoot 20240327

This is release 20240327 of thinRoot with the following bugfixes and feature changes:

🚧 Changes:

_{For all changes, see the full commit log.}

• update upstream linux kernel to 6.6.23 LTS
• reworked buildroot config environment and kernel config files to be based on fragment config files.
• bump buildroot to latest 2024.02.1
• integrate fix for missing /var/lock in /etc/inittab.

👪 Contributors (alphabetically):

• @jens-maus

📦 Download:

The following installation archives can be downloaded for different hardware platforms. To verify their integrity a sha256 checksum is provided as well.

• Intel NUC:
  _{📦 thinRoot-20240327-intelnuc.img
  SHA256: 9723ed0e48bb9b2dd8e95ee527cc3eee75af69864f4377c7dec28a5c3ab1021e}

thinRoot 20230313

This is release 20230313 of thinRoot with the following bugfixes and feature changes:

🚧 Changes:

_{For all changes, see the full commit log.}

• bumped linux kernel to latest 6.1.18 LTS
• bumped buildroot to latest 2023.02
• fixed shellcheck warning/errors
• fixed chrony drift file permission issue and added more standard settings to default chrony.conf
• updated xprintidle package to latest 0.2.5 version fixing the build also.
• fixed qt-webengine-kiosk dependencies
• added new 0014-qt5webengine-py311-fix upstream buildroot patch to fix python 3.11 related build issues in the qt5webengine-chromium package.
• added new qt-kiosk-browser package to potentially use this as an alternative for the old/obsolete qt-webengine-kiosk package.
• enable fq_codel network scheduler in all kernel configs and enable it in global sysctl.conf for improved network performance.
• added release/snapshot workflow job and release template file
• added package consistentcy check and some more linter checks.

👪 Contributors (alphabetically):

• @jens-maus

📦 Download:

The following installation archives can be downloaded for different hardware platforms. To verify their integrity a sha256 checksum is provided as well.

• Intel NUC:
  _{📦 thinRoot-20230313-intelnuc.img
  SHA256: e4a5cf02fc71bebb310094664a24615638561a2d809f3c7ac5a515be46f4b6af}

thinRoot 20230208

Changes:

• updated buildroot to 2022.08.3
• instead of using the "sync" option when mounting USB data drives - which slows down transfer speed considerably and also increases the wear level load - we ensure a good synced media via decreased vm.dirty_expire_centisecs and vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs to 5 seconds. Thus we use a global sysctl.conf now with reasonable values.

thinRoot 20221019

Changes:

• updated upstream kernel to 5.15.74 LTS.
• updated buildroot to 2022.08 and adapted patchset accordingly.
• added +gfx-thin-client option to queselect rdp callout script to feature advanced xfreerdp 2.8.0 settings.
• added missing CROCUS gallium driver for mesa3d and added 20-intel.conf xorg config file to take care of correct DRI/device OpenGL settings.
• use the powersave scaling governor as the default one.

thinRoot 20220706

Changes:

• updated upstream kernel to 5.15.50 LTS.
• updated buildroot to 2022.05 and adapted patchset accordingly.
• updated rpi-eeprom package to latest pieeprom-2022-04-26 version.
• retired obsolete qt-webkit-kiosk package in favour of qt-webengine-kiosk.
• added -x jitter option to rngd startup to disable performance hungry jitter RNG source.

thinRoot 20220309

Changes:

• updated upstream kernel to 5.10.104 LTS.
• updated buildroot to 2022.02 and adapted patchset accordingly.
• added /video option to xfreerdp startup script to improve vide playback capabilities.

thinRoot 20220303

Changes:

• updated thinlinc client to 4.14.0-2324
• updated upstream kernel to 5.10.103 LTS
• updated buildroot to 2021.11.2 and adapted patchset accordingly.

thinRoot 20220119

Changes:

• updated raspberrypi kernel defconfig fragments to get back correct functionality for rpi3.
• added new S99SetupLEDs startup script which will make sure that the onboard LED of a RaspberryPi/Tinkerboard will be set to "heartbeat" mode for better monitoring of the current state.
• fixed VNC viewer startup by using the ThinLinc client own vncviewer for connecting to pure vnc servers using qutselect.
• updated buildroot to latest 2021.08.3 version.
• updated Linux kernel versions to 5.10.92 (intelnuc).

thinRoot 20210910

Changes:

• updated ThinLinc client to latest 4.13.0-2172 version.
• updated buildroot to latest 2021.08 version.
• updated Linux kernel versions to 5.10.62 (intelnuc+tinkerboard) and 5.10.60/1.20210831 (RaspberryPi) as well as updated RaspberryPi firmware to 1.20210805.
• integrated a potential u-boot fix for a stalling bootup in u-boot when a usb keyboard is connected.
• modified kernel defconfigs for RaspberryPi to use upstream kernel defconfigs plus some fragment files with our dedicated changeset.
• added a new RaspberryPi4 (32bit) target for generating a 32bit version for the RaspberryPi4 platform so that we can add/support a ThinLinc client, simply because ThinLinc is still only 32bit for ARM.
• updated Busybox.config and added PID_FILE_PATH so that crond will put its crond.reboot file into /run correctly and not in root.
• we also generate a /VERSION file for the intelnuc platform so that we can identify the used thinRoot version during runtime as well.
• added default bootEnv.txt files for RaspberryPi and Tinkerboard platform but with disabled entries so that users can pickup the BASE_PATH stuff on their own more easily.