BunsenLabs Carbon Release Candidate 3 iso available

johnraff · 2026-02-03 07:34:40

BunsenLabs Carbon Release Candidate 3 iso is available here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bunsen … hybrid.iso
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bunsen … iso.sha256

sha256 sum: 47de769531fc0c99d9e0fa4b095ff280919684e5baae29fe264b9970e962a45f

Unless unexpected bugs come up, this should be the same as the Official Release of Bunsenlabs Carbon.

If you do find a new bug related to the Carbon RC3 iso, please post it in the Bug Reports section, adding a tag [Carbon RC3].

PackRat · 2026-02-03 16:02:37

Live session is running fine.
The link to release notes and turning off compositor buttons on the welcome menu work.

hhh · 2026-02-03 18:36:38

Live session looks great, Xfce4-panel seems sorted. Additional info in Live Welcome is appreciated. I'll install it later today.

hhh · 2026-02-03 19:22:04

Superb. I love the Debian Installer, still rock solid after all these years. My new installer banner looks OK after your eyes adjust.

BL Welcome is better than ever, I allowed it to install bluetooth and reformat my sources. Install Ublock Orgin for FireFox and you're good to go.

Downloading, transferring the ISO to USB, running it live and then installing it took 45 minutes at most on weak modern hardware with decent Internet.

Ship it!

@John, bluetooth also brings in cups? It's not bloat, but I'm not sure that's necessary.

Quick review: If you have liked BL in the past, you're going to love this.

johnraff · 2026-02-04 01:40:02

hhh wrote:

@John, bluetooth also brings in cups? It's not bloat, but I'm not sure that's necessary.

I'll have a quick look, if there was some reason. I could imagine printer support possibly wanting bluetooth, but not sure about the other way round. Easy to tweak the metapackage dependencies if necessary. But maybe it's a dep of one of the other printer support packages.

hhh · 2026-02-04 16:37:05

^ I bet you're right, that it's for bluetooth printer support. Leave it as it is.

-edit- If you don't need printer support...

sudo apt purge --autoremove cups*

Can you change the default xfce4-terminal color palette? The red is too dark at the moment (simulate removing cups to see what I mean).

Last edited by hhh (2026-02-04 18:13:36)

dmontaine · Yesterday 00:50:47

Installed in Virtualbox. 6 cpu, 8192 memory, 128k graphics. System will not allow any keyboard entry after boot. Tried recovery mode. Got message "Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked". Tried live system, same problem.

Tried a second install into Virtualbox, same problem. In the live system, sometimes a dialog will appear allowing me to disable compositor and then I can do keyboard entry. however, that dialog does not always appear. When booting from the installed Virtualbox instance, I never get the opportunity to disable the compositor. One other problem is that on first boot the system opens bl-welcom, but freezes and never displays any text.

I then tried to install to bare metal. I reduced the size of the Windows partition by 100G and then tried the BL install from USB. I told it to use the unused partition. During the install it could not find the ilwifi drivers so i continued the install without a network connection. I proceeded correctly until trying to install grub where it threw an error. The install was able to complete.

I then had to go into the boot menu and choose the debian partiton as grub had not been installed. Once selected, It brought up the system. Bl-welcome started, I said yes to all the options and the script continued about half way through the install and the terminal stopped accepting entry. However, the mouse continued to work. Oh, one other thing. After the install, the system was able to detect my wifi connection, so I bl-welcome was able to update the software.

Host system: MSI Modern laptop running Windows 11 pro, 32Gb memory, Intel i9, ARC graphics.

Last edited by dmontaine (Yesterday 01:45:53)

topdollar · Yesterday 23:40:13

I am also having similar problems installing in VBox, install finishes, first login, bl-welcome starts to run then freezes, keyboard not working in VM, verified keyboard settings. Mouse working fine. Tried installing Carbon in VBox on 3 different computers, [2] Windows 11 systems, [1] MX Linux system, results were the same. Sadness :-(

On a side note, looks great though! :-)

s-rod · Today 01:24:15

This is caused by the latest version of picom requiring 3D acceleration and OpenGL

Once the vm is running - right click the screen with the mouse to bring up the menu and go to "user settings" - "Compositor" - "Disable Compositing"

If using a default QEMU setup the make the following settings changes to enable 3D :
Display Spice > Listen type" > None > Check the OpenGL box.
Then under "Video Virtio" enable the 3d

Modifying the autostart file by removing the "bl-compositor --start" line and replacing it with the lines below will prevent the compositor from starting on a VM.

if ! systemd-detect-virt -q ; then
bl-compositor --start
fi

Last edited by s-rod (Today 02:10:32)

topdollar · Today 02:08:40

Wow, you really do learn something every day. Enabling 3D solved my issues.

Thanks s-rod!

johnraff · Today 03:04:09

dmontaine wrote:

I then had to go into the boot menu and choose the debian partiton as grub had not been installed. Once selected, It brought up the system. Bl-welcome started, I said yes to all the options and the script continued about half way through the install and the terminal stopped accepting entry. However, the mouse continued to work. Oh, one other thing. After the install, the system was able to detect my wifi connection, so I bl-welcome was able to update the software.

Was this on bare metal or in a VM? Did disabling composition help?

johnraff · Today 03:48:03

hhh wrote:

^ I bet you're right, that it's for bluetooth printer support. Leave it as it is.
-edit- If you don't need printer support...
sudo apt purge --autoremove cups*

Package: bunsen-meta-bluetooth
Section: metapackages
Architecture: all
Depends:
 ${misc:Depends},
 bluez,
 blueman,
 libspa-0.2-bluetooth,
 bluez-cups,
 bluez-meshd,
 bluez-obexd,
 bluez-tools

This is one of those cases - like media support - where it seems safest to throw in everything that might prevent some mysterious issue. So bluez-cups is included. Maybe people who want to pick and choose only the exact support they need can refrain from installing the Bluetooth metapackage and do it themselves?

johnraff · Today 04:26:25

hhh wrote:

Can you change the default xfce4-terminal color palette? The red is too dark at the moment (simulate removing cups to see what I mean).

Yes, I see what you mean. It looks like the same red as "Tab activity colour" but that's a red herring (so to speak). Even if you change that colour the red text doesn't change. Maybe it's hard-coded in apt?

...That seems to be it. The red text appears the same colour if you run the apt command in lxterminal.

@hhh have you succeeded in forcing a terminal to use a different shade of red there?

Last edited by johnraff (Today 04:48:46)

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