Updates

Known issues in R001.1

Five issues in the R001.1 release are confirmed and being worked. Fixes land in the next point release.

• Privileged actions through the assistant do not work in R001.1. The message “runner not found / package may be misinstalled” is incorrect — do not reinstall packages over it.
• Wiki-grounded answering currently runs on keyword matching.
• On machines with more than one local account, the assistant’s activity log (~/.local/state/intergen/intergen.log, which records web-search queries) is readable by other local accounts on a standard install. The personal-facts database and transcripts are created with loose permissions too, but on a standard install they sit behind a private ~/.local/share folder and are not reachable by other accounts. Run this now to close both: chmod 700 ~/.local/state/intergen ~/.local/share/intergen
• Some discrete GPUs (3–7 GB VRAM) are not yet used for inference; replies are slower than intended on that hardware.
• Web-search requests are phrasing-sensitive; “search the web for …” is the reliable form until R001.2.

Package manager rollback fix

Every pkm upgrade printed a warning for each package — “no cached archive … rollback unavailable if the install fails” — and the warning was wrong on both ends. The rollback copy it reported on was never actually being kept: the lookup used a filename shape the download cache never contains, so it missed every time, on every system. And the protection that does exist went unmentioned — the Chronicle backup engine captures a restore point before every package transaction, covering the files about to change and the package database.

pkm 0.2.0-62 fixes the lookup, so a rollback copy of each outgoing version is kept whenever the cache holds its archive, and replaces the per-package warning with a single line stating the protection actually in force: a captured restore point, kept rollback copies, or — normal for the first upgrade after a fresh installation — neither. Installed systems pick the fix up from the signed package mirror — run sudo pkm upgrade. One note: the upgrade that installs this fix still prints the old warnings a final time, since it runs the previous version's code; the first upgrade after it shows the new line.

Camera and virtual machine manager fixes

Two applications that failed at launch have been fixed and republished. The camera application's live preview required a GStreamer element that was not packaged — it now works end to end, verified on real hardware with a real camera. The virtual machine manager stopped opening after recent glib releases removed a compatibility alias its startup path still used — a startup patch restores it. Both were found by launch-testing every graphical application in the shipped set.

A new package, gst-plugin-gtk4 1.28.1, ships the missing element, version-matched to the GStreamer stack, and the camera application now declares it as a dependency so the pair installs together. Installed systems pick everything up from the signed package mirror — run sudo pkm upgrade. As with every package, the mirror's signed index covers the updates: they verify before they install.

Wiki documentation update

The InterGenOS wiki has been updated so its pages no longer name a specific “current release.” Pages now describe the system as it ships and point to the repository README and the mirror's image directory for the live answer — so the documentation cannot drift out of date when a new release publishes. The change covers both the wiki served at wiki.intergenos.org and the copy installed on every system.

Installed systems pick the update up from the signed package mirror as intergenos-wiki 1.0.0-13 — run sudo pkm upgrade. As with every package, the mirror's signed index covers it: the update verifies before it installs.

InterGenOS R001.1 released

The first point release of InterGenOS is available. R001.1 is an updated x86_64 UEFI live ISO built against R001's proven substrate, and it replaces R001 as the recommended download: boot it to try the system, or run FORGE from it to install a full desktop — encrypted disk, signed boot chain, and the local InterGen assistant included.

This release addresses several small fixes, and delivers our first post-release package additions set. Some land on the image itself — log rotation on every install, USB and NVMe tooling, ethernet diagnostics, and hybrid-graphics switching — and the rest are ready to install from the signed package mirror: the full VPN client set, container tooling, and a network-diagnostics suite. One note regarding a cosmetic fix we'll finalize with our next point release— every Secure-Boot install prints a "...prohibited by secure boot policy" error at the boot menu (a flash on single-monitor machines, persistent on the second screen of multi-head machines); harmless to boot integrity — it's just Secure Boot doing its job against a GRUB font file the image should have carried built-in. Hit the 'Full CHANGELOG' link below for the complete list of changes included in this release.

Check the image before you boot it. The sha256 below is published beside the ISO as a file you can pass straight to sha256sum -c, and that checksum file carries a detached signature from the release key, whose fingerprint is also below. The package mirror's index is signed with the same key. None of these checks depends on trusting this page.

The first package additions

R001.1 delivers the first post-release additions to the package set. Five land on the image itself: log rotation on every install, USB and NVMe tooling, ethernet diagnostics, and hybrid-graphics switching for dual-GPU laptops.

The rest are ready to install from the signed package mirror: the full VPN client set (OpenVPN, OpenConnect, and WireGuard tooling with NetworkManager integration), container tooling (compose, buildx, buildah, skopeo), and a network-diagnostics suite (mtr, tcpdump, iperf3, nmap, socat, and a meta-package that pulls the set in one install). Everything installs through pkm and verifies against the signed index like every other package.

InterGenOS R001 released

The first public release of InterGenOS is available. R001 is an x86_64 UEFI live ISO: boot it to try the system, or run FORGE from it to install a full desktop — encrypted disk, signed boot chain, and the local InterGen assistant included.

Check the image before you boot it. The sha256 below is published beside the ISO as a file you can pass straight to sha256sum -c, and that checksum file carries a detached signature from the release key, whose fingerprint is also below. The package mirror's index is signed with the same key. None of these checks depends on trusting this page.