today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 06, 2023

• 15 Open-source Free Self-hosted Survey Poll and Vote Generator Solutions

  A survey generator is a tool that allows users to create and distribute surveys to collect data from a specific audience. These generators can be built into a website or hosted separately, and offer various features such as customizable questions and templates, skip logic, and data analysis tools.

• PCLinuxOS: Firefox updated to 116.0.1

  Mozilla Firefox has been updated to 116.0.1 for PCLinuxOS. This is a bug fix update to the 116.x series. Now available in the software repository.

• Installing Haiku on Apple silicon Using UTM

  Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. It’s inspired by BeOS. To learn about the history of BeOS and Haiku, check out the video The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of BeOS.

  Haiku runs on Intel processors, but what are your options if you have an Apple silicon Mac? You can actually run Haiku in UTM, a virtual machine platform that supports emulating other processors.

  Let’s walk through the process of installing Haiku on UTM. You can go through the steps in this blog post or watch in video form: [...]

• [GSoC 2023] VPN Support Project Update #5

  Tempered Optimism

  So great news everyone, OpenVPN and the TUN/TAP driver is working on Haiku! While this is great news for the development of the project, I need to temper it with some problems that the project has encountered now. So first thing that I had to change first was going from TUN to TAP since OpenVPN wanted a Point-to-Point connection for the TUN driver and Point-to-Point isn’t quite a thing on Haiku yet. I had a lot of trouble with routing with TUN, so I moved onto TAP, and that seems to work… sort of. The main thing is that Haiku can be a client fine but it has some trouble being a server as OpenVPN can set the server up, and have a client OpenVPN connect to it (let us say the client is running Linux), but the client cannot ping the Haiku server. When I try to ping the server, ping will just say Destination Host Unreachable. Looking further into it using tcpdump, I realized that the client is trying to send ARP request to try and find the server and the Haiku server isn’t responding. Checking the Haiku side of things, I noticed that it wasn’t receiving the ARP requests to begin with so I have a hunch it might be the VirtualBox NAT Network I am using but I am not ruling out the possibility of the TAP driver or the TAP interface.

• Parcellite and Qlipper clipboard managers compiled in OE

  Commits. Parcellite:

  https://github.com/bkauler/oe-qky-kirkstone/commit/a1bca6f38dcfe5c21fa919ff46676a2363bb7b70

  Qlipper:

  https://github.com/bkauler/oe-qky-kirkstone/commit/1a1c99f1bae70b1600b77c6fd083a7596c0fa24d

  I have removed Glipper-lite clipboard manager from the inbuilt package-list for EasyOS, as it is English-only. Have replaced it with Parcellite.