Posted on ma 02 oktober 2017 in Arch Linux
This is the first edition of Arch monthly, mostly due to the lack of time to work on Arch weekly. So let's start with the roundup of last month.
Alad and Foxboron joined the Trusted Users team! Congrats!
This has been around for …
Posted on vr 26 mei 2017 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux
This is the second edition of Arch weekly, a small weekly post about the news in the Arch Linux community.
After reporting about the Arch-boxes project last week. Pierres created the Arch Linux organization on Docker and created a base image. The docker build …
Posted on wo 17 mei 2017 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux
This is the first edition of Arch weekly, a small weekly post about the news in the Arch Linux community. Hopefully this will be a recurring weekly blog post!
After the disappearance of linux-grsec from the repos due to the Grsecurity project not providing the required …
Posted on ma 05 december 2016 in DIY • Tagged with Rust, Spotify, ARM
For some time I've wanted to play Spotify music on my stereo installation, except it doesn't have bluetooth. I do own a nice aarch64 amlogic S905X based media center which runs LibreELEC, except libspotify which I normally use in combination with mopdiy. Libspotify (a binary blob from Spotify(tm)) however …
At work we use Git with https auth, which sadly means I can't use ssh keys. Since I don't want to enter my password every time I pull or push changes to the server, I wanted to use my password manager to handle this for me.
Git has pluggable credential …
Posted on ma 26 september 2016 in Electronics
I've found this cheap 5 euro USB logic analyzer via cnx.com and bought it from aliexpress.
It turned out to be quite easy to get the analyzer working on Arch Linux, the following packages need to be installed:
pacman -S pulseview
The firmware for the device is only available …
Posted on zo 21 augustus 2016 in Arch Linux • Tagged with NanoPi NEO, Arch Linux, Mainline, ARM
The NanoPI NEO is a little 8 dollar ARM device with an interesting form factor and specifications.
FriendlyARM provides an UbuntuCore image, but of course …
Posted on wo 30 december 2015 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux, BananaPi, ARM, Mainline
I posted a guide on getting Arch Linux ARM on the BananaPi last week. Now I was eager to get a mainline kernel working on the BananaPi for some ARM hacking and testing of new patches. In this post I'll describe the steps required to get a mainline kernel booted …
Posted on zo 27 december 2015 in misc
Today I noticed my Weechat logs have grown a lot! \~/.weechat/logs has grown to 360M. Obviously I need some sort of automation to take care of these logs, enter logrotate. Luckily Earnestly showed me how to use logrotate on it's own some time ago. So all I what was …
Posted on di 22 december 2015 in Electronics • Tagged with ARM, BananaPi, Mainline
Since some time the Banana Pi is supported in the Linux kernel and U-Boot.
Arch Linux ARM does not support the board yet, but it is possible to get it working with an upstream U-Boot.
First we to create an SD card image, since the BananaPi is …