Genode OS

[PineFone]

Sculpt OS 23.04 released

I am happy to announce the today's release of Sculpt OS 23.04, which is the first version that we published for PC hardware and the PinePhone in parallel. Please find the official announcement at https://genode.org/news/sculpt-os-release-23.04.

Here's my report after multiple days of trying to get the latest update to work.

Installs fine, but crashes and then seems to get wiped from the SD card. For example, when burning the image to the SD card, the card says 'GENODE', but after it crashes the first time, the phone flashes the red light when rebooting indicating an error with the SD card I assume, and loads the default Manjaro OS.

Loading this same post crash Sculpt SD card into the laptop shows '16 GB Volume', implying the Sculpt OS has been wiped.

This happened once when looking around the Runtime options after turning on the phone and Network to Mobile. The second time happened when I walked away while loading the browser.

On the third time, currently loading the browser again and watching through the Status option which is nice to see each package, but it appears to the be the 2nd time through loading the same series of morph browser related files. I didn't pay close enough attention to the file names the first time it loaded so this may actually be a whole new 2nd set of files required.

This 2nd go around has bogged down on the qt5_webengine/2023-03 file despite nothing changing on my end. The first set of downloads when from fetch > % > fetched > extract relatively quickly by comparison.

The original Feb release of the Sculpt OS was much easier to get the browser up and running. Other issues I remember are still there like the "#" sign doesn't work when using the phone, but that's obviously minor.

The second one being it appears to still burn down the battery pretty fast during this 3rd attempt to get everything setup for testing (phone, network, storage, and mobile browser setup). The battery has gone from 71% when starting to 40% and it's only been about 30 minutes.

Hopefully this feedback helps. Looking forward to trying this out as a daily driver when you have your official release planned for August when texting is enabled.

Assuming I get the browser enabled for testing without crashing, I'll report back more.