[STABLE RELEASE] BunsenLabs Beryllium Official ISOs

johnraff · 2022-12-19 11:23:41

The BunsenLabs team are happy to announce the release of BunsenLabs Beryllium, based on Debian Bullseye.
For a variety of reasons Beryllium has appeared much later than we would have liked, and we would like to apologize to users who have been waiting to upgrade their systems.
We do think, though, that this is our best release to date, and hope you agree!

Here are some features:

A handsome black theme "Dragon", created for us by community member @sleekmason who took time off from his own project Lilidog to do this.
If you're not used to dark themes, give Dragon a few days and you might will appreciate it more. Anyway, the BLOB utility (Menu > Utilities > BLOB Themes Manager), helps you to to quickly switch to another set of theming configs.
The jgmenu Menu has been refreshed, and the search facility might now be more useful.
The Welcome script will check for missing Debian apt sources (eg after offline install) and offer to add them.
Also in the Welcome script: offer to check for missing firmware and install.
BLOB, conky and tint2 utilities improved, and various tweaks and bugfixes applied elsewhere.
Documentation still needs work, but some BL help files have been added or improved.

Please see the Release Notes below for more details.

Download from the BunsenLabs website: https://www.bunsenlabs.org/installation.html

Big thanks to all the community members who contributed feedback, suggestions and code!

The BunsenLabs Team

Last edited by johnraff (2022-12-21 01:39:38)

johnraff · 2022-12-19 11:25:18

BunsenLabs Beryllium release notes:

Issues and workarounds:
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*) Virtualbox and some other Qt-based applications are hard to use with dark themes, but there are workarounds (thanks to @Bearded_Blunder):
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 83#p121783
( If you install on Virtualbox, also don't forget to install VBox Guest additions along with the required deps and kernel headers. )

*) If you run the installer with the Debian "dark" theme (it's really an accessibility theme), the grub background image will be disabled after install.
If you want to get it back:
sudo rm /etc/grub.d/06_dark_theme

*) Conky displays higher memory use than before - this is because former utilities were counting free memory too high.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=7854

*) This systemd boot message: "failed unmounting /run/live/medium" appears on live boot but it can be ignored.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17988

*) There is a series of messages "Can't unmount media: invalid argument" which since BL Hydrogen have briefly appeared when booting the installer. They also seem to be harmless.

(NOTE: Neither of the above two error messages appears with an installed system.)

*) There is a galternatives bug which sometimes appears if two alternatives have the same priority.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 26#p121626
Workaround: select (eg) urxvt in galternatives (password popup appears), then select lxterminal again. Now lxterminal is correctly set as x-terminal-emulator. Another workaround would be to use 'sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator' to set lxterminal.

*) In "guided" mode Debian-Installer now sets swap to 1GB.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=987503
If you want to use Hibernate you'll need to set a bigger swap size.

*) Existing Beryllium systems (eg upgrades from Lithium) might not have a time sync daemon installed. Install systemd-timesyncd or alternatively chrony or ntpsec.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=8300

CHANGES:
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bunsen-images is now split into bunsen-images and bunsen-images-base.
bunsen-images-base contains only what is needed for the default theme, so users short of disk space can omit bunsen-images.

A package bunsen-images-archives holds images used in previous releases.

Some other reorganization of images, discussion here:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=8138

Move grub background image to /boot (so it's available to encrypted systems at boot time) with symlink from old location in /usr.

Added many small tweaks and bugfixes, also:

Menu:
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"Appearance": invoke gtk reload after lxappearance is closed, so new theme is displayed immediately.

Search - add .desktop files for some pipemenus & utilities
so they appear in jgmenu search.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 11#p115911

Add "Quick System Info" item to display output of inxi via less in a terminal.

Some reorganization of menu items.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 12#p118012

Rename "BL Utilities" > "Utilities".

Move "Applications" a bit lower down to reflect its lesser importance.

Add top-level "Quick Screenshot+Upload" to screenshot the whole desktop and upload it to imgur.

Rename "Install Selected Packages" to "Install Favourite Packages".

bl-welcome
==========

Fix missing lines in apt sources which can happen after an offline install.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=7477

Add firmware detection via offer to install and run isenkram-cli.
https://www.debian.org/releases/bullsey … led-system

Scroll down to next page instead of using tput clear. Now it's possible to scroll back up to previous pages (thanks to @eight.bit.al).
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=7809

Extend man page/help message slightly.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 22#p118322

bl-user-setup
=============

When running at login time and a file is changed, output a notify-send popup in every case.

Add a diff function to compare file changes before choosing to apply or not.
(Install meld for a GUI, otherwise colordiff is run in a terminal.)

BLOB:
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Save jgmenurc for menu styling. Menu content is untouched, regardless of theme.
Fix all minimized windows being maximized after taking scrot - now only maximize those that were maximized before.
Improve conky & tint2 session handling (eg allow spaces in filepaths).
Use BL conky and tint2 utilities (*-manager *-session) wherever possible.
Use the same diff GUI from bl-user-setup for file-change warnings.

Conky utilities:
===============

bl-conky-edit - use alphabetic sorting.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 47#p102147

bl-conky-manager can now handle conkys on different desktops like BLOB.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 35#p100435
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 77#p100477

Use symlink to set default conky, with mechanism for changing the symlink from the menu.

package additions/changes:
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removed from metapackage list:
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vdpau-va-driver
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=934397

ntp (clashes with systemd time daemon)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2 … 00172.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2 … 00211.html

added:
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xfce4-appfinder (new menu item)
colordiff (easier reading of diffs)
dmidecode (hardware info)
speedtest-cli (test network speed)
exfatprogs
mtools (for MSDOS files)
firmware-sof-signed
alsa-ucm-conf
cryptsetup-initramfs (needed for encrypted installs)
mdadm ( https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=7037 )

Install both dbus-user-session and dbus-X11
so d-u-s runs by default but dbus-launch is available
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 68#p110668
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 61#p112161

new dependencies:
================

Scanner support:
add ipp-usb to deps of bunsen-meta-printer-support (it's recommended by cups-daemon)
https://wiki.debian.org/Scanner

new in install menu:
===================

celluloid (was gnome-mpv)
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 09#p108109

hw-probe
(optional install, because some may see privacy implications)
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 88#p112688

simplescreenrecorder - to replace gtk-recordmydesktop (as no longer in debian)

BUGFIXES:
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many, but including:

There is an issue with tint2 icons of xfce4-power-manager.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=7327
We ship a tweaked package in the BL repositories which works round this.

TWEAKS:
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set:
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=BunsenLabs
in ~/.config/bunsen/environment

Update colours in the papirus colours script shipped in bunsen-papirus-icon-theme.

Disable overlay scrollers
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=8019
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=8020
Added this to ~/.config/bunsen/environment:
# Disable overlay scrollbars
export GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0

beepmein: add new cli option "--reason", some small tweaks and bugfixes.

DOCS:
====

Added BLOB helpfile.
Expanded helpfile for conky-manager.
Added helpfile for bunsenlabs autostart.

johnraff · 2022-12-19 11:29:02

yoda · 2022-12-19 13:05:27

noobie question, how to UPGRADE to this version ? I installed BL a few weeks ago so my actual version is not too much outdated
Tks !

sleekmason · 2022-12-19 13:40:59

Cool @johnraff! Thank you for listing all of your changes clearly. I was unaware of the the vdpau-va-driver issues and somehow missed the addition of firmware-sof-signed.

Bunsenlabs is Awesome!

Thank you for the hard work you and the rest of team put in to get this out. Looking forward to checking the new release out:)

yoda · 2022-12-19 16:18:49

yoda wrote:

noobie question, how to UPGRADE to this version ? I installed BL a few weeks ago so my actual version is not too much outdated
Tks !

Do I simply have to update my bunsel.list with something like this ?

Add any applicable source entries to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen.list:

Maintained Release(s) Repository Architectures sources.list entry
✓ Beryllium beryllium amd64, i386, armhf, arm64 deb http://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian beryllium main
✓ Beryllium bullseye-backports amd64, i386 deb http://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian bullseye-backports main

Instead of deb http://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian lithium main

Yoda

deleted0 · 2022-12-19 17:13:49

https://www.bunsenlabs.org/installation.html

8bit

yoda · 2022-12-19 17:19:03

eight.bit.al wrote:

https://www.bunsenlabs.org/installation.html
8bit

I know about this link and thanks. I think you telling me to use this link ? : https://www.bunsenlabs.org/repositories.html ?

DO I only need to modify the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen.list on my Lithium installation and type some ( which ? ) update command ?

Tks for your patience...

The INstallation " UPGRADE " notes on the site are not DUMB PROOF / not enough for noobie already using BL.

Please don't tell me to go back to Windows or MacOS if I can't figure out how to upgrade my BL to the new release LOL

TKs

Last edited by yoda (2022-12-19 17:24:32)

sleekmason · 2022-12-19 17:28:07

yoda wrote:

eight.bit.al wrote:
https://www.bunsenlabs.org/installation.html
8bit
I know about this link and thanks. I think you telling me to use this link ? : https://www.bunsenlabs.org/repositories.html ?
DO I only need to modify the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen.list on my Lithium installation and type some ( which ? ) update command ?
Tks for your patient... The INstallation " UPGRADE " notes on the site is not DUMB PROOF / not enough for noobie already using BL
Please don't tell me to go back to Windows or MacOS if I can't figure out how to upgrade my BL to the new releaase LOL
TKs

As far as I know, you should only need to:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

to get the newest packages from the debian 11.6 update.

Were your current sources not working properly?

You can also add whatever sources you like if you feel you are missing something, and 'sudo apt update' to refresh the packages.

*edit - and maybe add systemd-timesyncd if not installed. Use 'apt-cache policy systemd-timesyncd' in a terminal to see if installed.

Last edited by sleekmason (2022-12-19 17:31:39)

yoda · 2022-12-19 17:29:57

eight.bit.al wrote:

https://www.bunsenlabs.org/installation.html
8bit

I will try this link https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=6891 with some tweaks to use the last release

yoda · 2022-12-19 17:42:09

Decided to wait to not messed up my actual Lithium installation...
for now I just did this :

Add any applicable source entries to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen.list:

Maintained Release(s) Repository Architectures sources.list entry
✓ Beryllium beryllium amd64, i386, armhf, arm64 deb http://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian beryllium main
✓ Beryllium bullseye-backports amd64, i386 deb http://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian bullseye-backports main

deleted0 · 2022-12-19 18:50:14

yoda wrote:

eight.bit.al wrote:
https://www.bunsenlabs.org/installation.html
8bit
I know about this link and thanks. I think you telling me to use this link ? : https://www.bunsenlabs.org/repositories.html ?
DO I only need to modify the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen.list on my Lithium installation and type some ( which ? ) update command ?
Tks for your patience...
The INstallation " UPGRADE " notes on the site are not DUMB PROOF / not enough for noobie already using BL.
Please don't tell me to go back to Windows or MacOS if I can't figure out how to upgrade my BL to the new release LOL
TKs

Sorry for any confusion. I just thought the announcement thread ought to have a link to where to get the thing. So I posed the link. We're all good here.

8bit

exe · 2022-12-19 19:59:07

Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!

Wich is the new version of Openbox ?

Last edited by exe (2022-12-19 21:02:07)

dbvolvox · 2022-12-19 21:51:43

Congratulations team and heartfelt thank you.

johnraff · 2022-12-20 02:54:18

eight.bit.al wrote:

I just thought the announcement thread ought to have a link to where to get the thing.

Good idea! Added to OP.

johnraff · 2022-12-20 02:55:57

exe wrote:

Wich is the new version of Openbox ?

This one: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/openbox

johnraff · 2022-12-20 02:59:35

yoda wrote:

noobie question, how to UPGRADE to this version ? I installed BL a few weeks ago so my actual version is not too much outdated

If you're using BunsenLabs Lithium, there is an upgrade tutorial here: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=8295

If you're already using the beta Beryllium, then this is enough:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

shortarcflyer · 2022-12-20 03:06:35

I downloaded it and will try it out tomorrow when I have more time on my hands. Many thanks!

Döbbie03 · 2022-12-20 04:31:07

A long time coming indeed. Great news to read. Congratulations to all.

or1o9 · 2022-12-20 04:45:00

Good news, just in time for the holidays! Sweet and thank you for all your work that you have put into it.

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