Hello everyone,
I'm happy to announce today's release of the Genode-based Sculpt operating system version 22.10.
https://genode.org/news/sculpt-os-release-22.10
At the surface, this version is a maintenance release with almost no visible changes. Under the hood, however, we poured immense efforts into the lowest-level parts of the driver infrastructure like the discovery and management of PCI resources and the hotplugging of USB devices. Those low-level architectural changes left almost no driver unturned. We thoroughly tested Sculpt on our team's arsenal of machines. Please let us know how it works on your's.
Besides the driver-related changes, seasoned Sculpt users might notice performance improvements in several areas, ranging from faster system startup, over increased network throughput, to improved GUI responsiveness.
The release is accompanied by up-to-date packages. For example, you can find
- An updated Chromium engine in the form of the Falkon and Morph web browsers in cproc's depot,
- An updated audio driver based on OpenBSD 7.1 in genodelabs' depot,
- Performance and battery monitoring tools in alex-ab's depot.
As a starting point, please find a ready-to-use disk image at the Sculpt download page:
https://genode.org/download/sculpt
The matching documentation for using Sculpt or building it at home is available at:
https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-22-10 https://genode.org/documentation/sculpt-22-10.pdf
I hope you'll enjoy the new version!
Norman