by Mettacrawler » Wed Feb 08, 2023 2:05 pm
I spent some time studying Arch Linux ARM. One of the things I found is this:
https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.mdSome other relics
https://www.activestate.com/blog/supporting-arch-linux-arm-development-team-komodo-ide/$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '2')019 Mike Brown, liason (sic) specialist at Arch Linux ARM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBb2YnxIp8c$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '2')013 A Slice of Pi - Jason Plum, Arch Linux ARM
Lynix, I should mention that I installed your linux-aarch64-6.1.10-1 successfully on my Mochabin. Prior to yesterday I was using my own PKGBUILD that I created with no intention of publishing. I didn't find your package until after I had been using mine.
My PKGBUILD was just for learning. I stripped out a bunch of stuff to make it compile faster. The first two rounds of compilation were on the Mochabin without using distcc; it took about eight hours. I got around to re-installing distcc which I had used in the past to build an armv7 kernel with virtio but that installation got washed away in the churn.
To blather even more, I started using Arch Linux ARM after I found out about the WiFi key exchange vulnerability, KRACK. I had a VyWorks docsis router with no possibility of it ever getting firmware updates. I have these reactions from time-to-time where I go from one extreme to another. In this case it was from having no updates to having the most updates. I went shopping for the new router and settled on a Marvell Clearfog Pro and very quickly switched from running the Ubuntu it came with to Arch Linux ARM. The Solidrun invoice says Dec 13, 2017 but it took nine months to be delivered from Israel.
I bought a Linksys ea6350v3 as a backup router. Along time ago I heard a joke, when someone said their car was a Jag the reply would be "what's your other car?" I figured it would be good to have a backup if there were issues with Arch Linux ARM. The Linksys has turned out to be more useful for dealing with ISP outages. During an outage I just turn on my phone hotspot, configure OpenWRT to use the hotspot WiFi as WAN and plug the Clearfog WAN port into a LAN port on the Linksys. Nothing on my LAN needs to be reconfigured including my Pi-hole.
I switched from Arch Linux ARM to Armbian on that router mostly because I think that upstream developers are dropping support for 32-bit Linux more and more over time; having up-to-date packages on arrm7 is going to be increasingly difficult.
I backed the campaign to build the Mochabin. Indigogo and Kickstarter, etc. are not about buying something, it's more like venture capital. You might end up with nothing, it's happened hundreds of thousands of times before according to articles I read. Globalscale delived despite the world being post-peak-oil which is good.
I made a YT video of the Mochabin booting Arch Linux ARM. Then I went to the library and without logging in I played my video (which was hard to find, google found it with site:youtube.com "mochabin" (verbatim mode on). I also played every other related and unrelated Marvell video and Globalscale video. Within a day a Globalscale YT channel followed my YT channel. SEO works both ways and it's fun, right?