Debian: Easy Daedalus, Andy Simpkins, Mini-DebConf Cambridge, and Debian Support in Android
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Barry Kauler ☛ Playing with Easy Daedalus
There are those who loved Easy Buster, EasyOS built with Debian Buster packages. This had access to the enormous Debian repository, which was the main attraction.
Awhile ago, I experimented with Easy Bookworm; however, could not get LibreOffice to start. There were no error messages, just nothing, not aven the splash logo. It was waiting for something, and back then I tried to trace it; found where it was not returning from a function, but couldn't understand what it was waiting for. Online searching did not help.
Devuan Daedalus is the equivalent of Bookworm, except without systemd. Decided to give it another go, except this time build with Daedalus packages.
Note, I did download DevuanPup, created by josejp2424, see forum. Wrote the .iso to a usb stick, booted it and got a black screen.
EasyOS Daedalus-series looks good: [...]
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Andy Simpkins ☛ Andy Simpkins: The state of the art
A long time ago….
A long time ago a computer was a woman (I think almost exclusively a women, not a man) who was employed to do a lot of repetitive mathematics – typically for accounting and stock / order processing.
Then along came Lyons, who deployed an artificial computer to perform the same task, only with fewer errors in less time. Modern day computing was born – we had entered the age of the Digital Computer.
These computers were large, consumed huge amounts of power but were precise, and gave repeatable, verifiable results.
Over time the huge mainframe digital computers have shrunk in size, increased in performance, and consume far less power – so much so that they often didn’t need the specialist CFC based, refrigerated liquid cooling systems of their bigger mainframe counterparts, only requiring forced air flow, and occasionally just convection cooling. They shrank so far and became cheep enough that the Personal Computer became to be, replacing the mainframe with its time shared resources with a machine per user. Desktop or even portable “laptop” computers were everywhere.
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Andrew Cater: Mini-DebConf Cambridge 20241013 1300
LATE NEWS
I haven't blogged until now: I should have done from Thursday onwards.
It's a joy to be here in Cambridge at ARM HQ. Lots of people I recognise from last year here: lots *not* here because this mini-conference is a month before the next one in Toulouse and many people can't attend both. -
Coding right on your smartphone: Google adds Debian Linux support to Android
The app, discovered by the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), uses the Android Virtualisation Framework (AVF) to run a Debian virtual machine. This will allow users to run Linux commands in an isolated environment on Android devices.