astroarch

If you are upgrading from 1.7, the upgrade is too complex to script so please download the new image and flash it - sorry for any trouble!

Additionally, be aware that it is very likely that 1.7 will break after 2024-03-17 as one of the package sddm won't be pinned anymore and it is likely to break the system, please upgrade before that date or don't run update-astroarch

Fixed

• the dark them has no more striped bug or incomplete colouring
• fixed polkit rules and group permission, now reboot and shutdown won't emit any error

Removed

• x11vnc - this was breaking the UI theme and has been dumped, farewell!
• vnc clipboard, tigervnc doesn't support clipboard paste

Added

• discovery - you can now use a graphical program to find, add or remove software
• update notification - if there will be some packages to be updated, a bell will appear
• HDMI - AstroArch supports now both VNC and HDMI!
• use UUID instead of /dev/X, this will allow to boot the same image from SD, USB, HDD or NVMe with no manual changes (previously required)
• better initial support for Pi 5, some configs are baked especially for your pi5
• tigervnc as VNC server, this will add some nice performance boost to VNC

Changed

• the default wallpaper is now a slideshow
• resizing partition at first boot now works with every media automatically
• the access point now has a small prefix e.g AstroArch-XXXXX where X are random chars

CHANGELOG:

• Do not make links to desktop
• Document README.md with useful passwords
• Fix logic for raspberry in bootstrap script
• Fix repo sync for old update scripts
• Document booting AstroArch from external disks
• Document how to add swap
• Fix starting condition for x11vnc systemd unit
• Swap systemd-timesyncd with chronyd (this should fix all time sync issues)
• Fix missing raspberrypiconf for i2c in build script
• Add fortune and cowsay for enhanced MOTD
• Add arandr to change screen resolution
• Drop support for version 1.4
• Replace gedit with kate (text editor)
• Disable kwallet (this should fix all WiFi issues with passwords)
• Document how to set timezone using CLI
• Document mkscr in the build guide
• Fix plasma5 packages dependencies (plasma is close to release 6 and packages are changing names to avoid conflicts)
• Exit early if bootstrap script fails at any command
• Added firefox as fallback browser

CHANGELOG:

• Onboarding a RTC device to syn time at boot is now easy, the i2c-dev is enabled by default and the only thing needed is adding the device name to the i2c-rtc overlay to load the kernel module and sync time automatically
• Added AstroDMx to pre-packaged software
• Added indiserver UI to pre-packaged software
• Added astromonitor as a system package
• Repackaged websockify for web VNC connections (python 3.11 broke the old package)
• Fixed a broken libssl1.1 dependency that was causing paru to fail

• added commands to rollback indi/kstars
• replaced Alacritty with Konsole
• force desktop icons to be executable

• we have now our own set of icons!
• by default astroarch starts now at 1920x1080

NO NEED TO MAKE A NEW IMAGE - update-astroarch is now able to apply changes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/devDucks/astroarch/compare/v1.3.0...v1.3.1

Prepare for upgrade without reinstalling the ISO

download link => https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jYBeKFioCXWDqEf0wk0shj0Dn7eJ8dcX/

Full Changelog: https://github.com/devDucks/astroarch/compare/v1.2.0...v1.3.0

Bugfix:

• fix device name on resize script
• fix overlapping chars in terminal
• fix time not synchronizing
• fix samba sharing
• fix astromatto repo name

Generics:

• reworked dependencies
• moved to raspi kernel (SDDM+plasma not wokring on linux-aarch64)
• bumped kstars to 3.6.2
• bumped indi to 1.9.9
• bumped phd2 to 2.6.11dev3

link to iso => https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UBenTuSsUSR8bYcdnjDZRb8xtzDdeAfK/

This the first release known to work with most of the equipment, the archlinux kernel has been swapped out in favor if the raspberry one to solve some FTDI issues I was seeing

Fix:

• image properly resize on first boot
• wallpaper set up correctly on first boot

New:

• samba now starts on system boot
• indi, kstars and phd2 are now coming from a repo and not compiled on the machine

Bugfix release:

• fixed hostname
• start avahi daemon at boot
• fixed missing indi 3rd party libs (rebuilt also all 3rd party drivers)
• fixed wrongly assigned permission to /home/astronaut/.astroarch