22.189-alpha1

What's Changed

Rebased on Ubuntu 22.04

• Added zswap using lz4

• Retro Home session no longer run as root
• Ludo has elevated privileges to manage services and added systemd drop-ins to link Ludo settings directly to the relevant services
• Replaced PulseAudio with PipeWire; seems to play better with HDMI audio
• Enabled the Full KMS driver; dropped legacy ALSA workarounds
• Enabled aptX, aptX HD, LDAC, AAC Bluetooth codecs
• Removed cellular modem support, as not required. Removes 2 persistent services
• Minified Xorg install, now has modesetting drivers only
• Replaced feh with xli
• Fixed HDMI capture performance issues
• Minimised packages in the base system and removed kernel headers from the default install
• Tuned and disabled unnecessary services and timers
• Samba disabled by default; can be turned on via Ludo Settings. NetBIOS always disabled
• Added maintenance units to enforce critical configuration policy
• Create a bespoke boot splash to replace Plymouth and optimise boot speed
• Add a ludo settings watcher to integrate ludo settings changes with the rest of the system
• Customised motd
• Optimised image size calculation
• [proposal Label] added few resources for further work on porting for cases by @takov751 in #12

Case support

Where applicable, all of the following have safe power off, safe reset and fan control drivers.

• Added DeskPi Pro
• Added DeskPi Lite
• Added Retroflag PiStation
• Added Retroflag PiStation PiStation + LCD
• Added Retroflag SUPERPi 4
• Added Retroflag NESPi 4
• Added Retroflag MEGAPi Case-M
• Added Retroflag SUPERPi Case-U
• Added Retroflag SUPERPi Case-J
• Added Retroflag NESPi Case+

Desktop

• Renamed the desktop session to "Retro Desktop"
• Added Firefox ESR
• Simplified the default panels
• Enabled Sound, Date/Time, Session and Bluetooth indicators
• Fixed connman-gtk launcher

New Contributors

• @takov751 made their first contribution in #12

Downloads

• retro-home-raspi-* images are generic images for Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 3+, 4, 400
• retro-home-deskpi-* images are for the DeskPi Pro and Deskpi Lite and Raspberry Pi 4.
• retro-home-retroflag-* images are for the all Retroflag console cases with Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 3+ or 4.

The raspi and deskpi images have an alternate download that includes a small desktop environment, useful if you want to tinker with Retro Home. The access the "Retro Desktop" you must have a keyboard and mouse attached a then press Esc in Ludo which will take you to a login where you can select the desktop session via the cog icon in the top right panel.

Full Changelog: 21.10-alpha5...22.189-alpha1