Hello everyone,
with delight, I'm announcing the release of Sculpt OS 25.04:
https://genode.org/news/sculpt-os-release-25.04
As one highlight, the new version wraps up our intensive work on multi-monitor support by bringing multi-monitor awareness to the window-management level, adding new keyboard shortcuts for the use of virtual desktops, and even going as far as offering display rotation. Please revisit the window-management section of the documentation for a brief overview of the niceties:
https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-25-04#Window_management
Another user-empowering improvement is the new ability to select arbitrary directories as file systems when integrating a new component. This alleviates the need to manually maintain dedicated chroot instances:
https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-25-04#File_system
Third, the highly anticipated update of the Falkon browser to a recent Chromium engine is now available. You can give it a try using the ready-to-use preset.
Among the many other improvements are enhanced IOMMU support, compatibility with Intel Meteor Lake, various performance optimizations, and UI controls for changing the screen resolution of the VESA driver.
If you already use Sculpt OS on your machine, you can conveniently switch to the new version by selecting 2025-04-29 offered by genodelabs in the system-update dialog. New users can find the new version readily available as system image for the PC, PinePhone, and the i.MX8-based MNT Reform laptop.
https://genode.org/download/sculpt
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the release, be it in the form of technical work, testing, or feedback. Speaking of feedback, please don't hesitate to drop by in the community forum:
https://genode.discourse.group
Happy Sculpting!
Norman
Wow, this is very exciting news, with a really good set of features for the semiannual release!
Every single one of the things you highlight below is a great usability enhancement. I haven't had a chance to try everything yet, but I suspect the file system option in particular will be a game-changer for ease-of-use, and multi-monitor support is obviously huge.
Screen rotation should also be useful (and fun). I didn't notice anything in the release notes about it, so I have a few questions:
Is this available through Leitzentrale?
If just XML, what are the details?
Is it available for the PinePhone?
Thanks and Happy Sculpting!
On 4/29/25 8:41 AM, Norman Feske wrote:
Hello everyone,
with delight, I'm announcing the release of Sculpt OS 25.04:
https://genode.org/news/sculpt-os-release-25.04
As one highlight, the new version wraps up our intensive work on multi- monitor support by bringing multi-monitor awareness to the window- management level, adding new keyboard shortcuts for the use of virtual desktops, and even going as far as offering display rotation. Please revisit the window-management section of the documentation for a brief overview of the niceties:
https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-25-04#Window_management
Another user-empowering improvement is the new ability to select arbitrary directories as file systems when integrating a new component. This alleviates the need to manually maintain dedicated chroot instances:
https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-25-04#File_system
Third, the highly anticipated update of the Falkon browser to a recent Chromium engine is now available. You can give it a try using the ready- to-use preset.
Among the many other improvements are enhanced IOMMU support, compatibility with Intel Meteor Lake, various performance optimizations, and UI controls for changing the screen resolution of the VESA driver.
If you already use Sculpt OS on your machine, you can conveniently switch to the new version by selecting 2025-04-29 offered by genodelabs in the system-update dialog. New users can find the new version readily available as system image for the PC, PinePhone, and the i.MX8-based MNT Reform laptop.
https://genode.org/download/sculpt
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the release, be it in the form of technical work, testing, or feedback. Speaking of feedback, please don't hesitate to drop by in the community forum:
https://genode.discourse.group
Happy Sculpting!
Norman
Hi John,
thanks for the nice feedback!
On 2025-04-30 09:45, John J. Karcher wrote:
Screen rotation should also be useful (and fun). I didn't notice anything in the release notes about it, so I have a few questions:
Is this available through Leitzentrale?
If just XML, what are the details?
The rotation options are hosted in the intel-fb configuration dialog when opening the screen-mode selection for a connector. See the attached screenshot.
Is it available for the PinePhone?
Even though the feature is implemented for 64-bit ARM, the display driver for the PinePhone still lacks the configuration interface. So it is not readily usable.
Cheers Norman
Hello again,
I've just posted an article with more details about the new version at Genodians.org:
https://genodians.org/nfeske/2025-04-30-sculpt-os
Cheers Norman
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Norman Feske