{"id":216516,"date":"2026-02-23T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/rbos-2026-02-22-as-latest-linux-live-iso-to-showcase-wayland\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:20:07","slug":"rbos-2026-02-22-as-latest-linux-live-iso-to-showcase-wayland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/rbos-2026-02-22-as-latest-linux-live-iso-to-showcase-wayland\/","title":{"rendered":"RBOS 2026-02-22 As Latest Linux Live ISO To Showcase Wayland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/RBOS-2026-02-22\">RBOS 2026-02-22 As Latest Linux Live ISO To Showcase Wayland<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/RBOS-2026-02-22\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/RBOS-2026-02-22<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-23 06:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While these days nearly every major desktop Linux distribution is using Wayland or at least making it available, a decade ago before reaching that maturity one of the options for showing off the potential of Wayland was the oddly-named RebeccaBlack OS. With &#8220;RBOS&#8221; it shipped the very latest Wayland components and different desktop and toolkit options to easily try out Wayland-based environments from a live Linux environment. Released overnight was a surprise update to RBOS.<\/p>\n<p>Around fourteen years ago RebeccaBlack OS made it easy to try out Wayland as well as for easily running into Wayland&#8217;s different bugs and limitations of the time. But in more recent years with most Linux desktop distributions successfully shipping Wayland, the usefulness of RBOS hasn&#8217;t been as significant as during the early days of this alternative to the X.Org Server.\n<\/p>\n<p>RebeccaBlackOS 2026-02-22 is now available though and it has re-based against Debian Trixie as its OS base while continuing to ship the very latest Wayland libraries, a variety of toolkits with Wayland support enabled, and different desktops\/compositors like Weston, GNOME Shell, KDE Plasma, Wayfire, Sway, LXQt, and more.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=rbos\" alt=\"RBOS example\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The new ISO release has a number of improvements including various console changes for allowing a VT-less kernel build, log-in manager improvements, switching to the Linux 6.19 kernel for the latest kernel drivers, DRM Panic QR code support, Qt 6.10, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Those wanting to try out the new RebeccaBlack OS release for a leading-edge Wayland experience can grab the new ISOs via SourceForge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/RBOS-2026-02-22\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RBOS 2026-02-22 As Latest Linux Live ISO To Showcase Wayland https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/RBOS-2026-02-22 Publish Date: 2026-02-23 06:37:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=rbos","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[91,71],"class_list":["post-216516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-debian","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216518,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216516\/revisions\/216518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}