Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 20

In the ARM world, to which I am still mostly a newcomer (although I’ve been already playing with ARM machines for over two years, I am a complete newbie compared to my Debian friends who live and breathe that architecture), the most common way to distribute operating systems is to distribute complete, already-installed images. I have ranted in the past on how those images ought to be distributed. Some time later, I also discussed on my blog on how most of this hardware requires unauditable binary blobs and other non-upstreamed modifications to Linux. In the meanwhile, I started teaching on...

Petter and Elena both talk enthusiastically about the Pyra. I am currently waiting for the shipment of my C.H.I.P. kit — I pre-ordered my kit when it was still in kickstarter phase, and got the PocketC.H.I.P. level. It is clearly not the same nor equivalent to the Pyra — The PocketC.H.I.P. is a convenient packaging for what is chiefly an System-on-a-chip; the C.H.I.P. is a small system by today’s standards (single-core ARM, 512MB RAM, not meant to be expanded), but still it looks quite usable as a very portable and usable Unix system. Oh, and of course — It’s also...

As many of you know (where “you” is “people reading this who actually know who I am), I come from a secular Jewish family. Although we have some religious (even very religious) relatives, neither my parents nor my grandparents were religious ever. Not that spirituality wasn’t important to them — My grandparents both went deep into understanding by and for themselves the different spiritual issues that came to their mind, and that’s one of the traits I most remember about them while I was growing up. But formal, organized religion was never much welcome in the family; again, each of...

I am very very (very very very!) happy to confirm that… This year, and after many years of not being able to, I will cross the Atlantic. To do this, I will take my favorite excuse: Attending DebConf! So, yes, this image I am pasting here is as far as you can imagine from official promotional material. But, having bought my plane tickets, I have to start bragging about it ;-) In case it is of use to others (at least, to people from my general geographic roundabouts), I searched for plane tickets straight from Mexico. I was accepting my...

Tongues out!

My online activity, in most if not all of the projects I most care about, has dropped to a lifelong minimum. But that is not necessarily a bad thing — Yes, I want to be more involved again in everything. And yes, I am in a permanent crisis of lack of time (and/or sleep). I didn’t even remember to blog about this on time… but never mind… A little over a year after the single, most important moment I have lived, we are not only enjoying, but deeply understanding the true meaning of life. Comments Andy Cater 2016-03-20 06:55:03 You...

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