A handy tool for installing Linux apps, Rocky Linux roadmaps, streaming with NymphCast, and Raspberry Pi PCIe compatibility. All this, plus your emails.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
04:51 Rocky Linux release date
08:18 Neo Chat for Matrix
12:33 What is NymphCast?
15:38 N64 Linux
19:38 Command not found
23:13 Snd Firewire Control
26:13 Zomm H6 remote
29:18 Raspberry Pi PCIe devices
33:53 HDMI Amiga Pi
39:13 Emails
- They are targeting Q2 2021 to deliver our first release of Rocky Linux.
- In the process of setting up the infrastructure.
- Will be using AWS as the build platform.
- Lot’s of companies have stepped up to sponsor the project because hey, it’s cheaper than RHEL.
- The whole thing is loaded with veiled potshots.
- Still if you want to avoid Streams like the plague, this is looking to be the distro of choice.
- The beauty of open source is that when there is a need there is a way.
- And Rocky Linux will probably be the fastest major distro ever made.
- NeoChat 1.0, the KDE Matrix client, has been released.
- Matrix is an open network for secure and decentralized communication, and is very similar to Discord, Telegram, Whatsapp.
- It’s nice to have a well laid out Matrix client for KDE and Android, and another Matrix client in general.
- Lots of Linux communities are adopting this platform.
- I have been using the Element.io app for Linux, Android and web for chatting.
- Comes installed by default in the Plasma Mobile Pinephones.
- Finding your way around a decentralized network of things is usually what keeps this stuff from getting adopted.
NymphCast (RTheren)
- Complete media platform
- Comes with both server and client app for you to run on your phone and do things remotely.
- Still in Alpha but as someone looking to build a Pi media server to just run some internet radio stations and local network playlists off a Pi direct to the soundbar in the living room, this seems like just the thing.
- Maya Posch, the developer, calls NymphCast “a casual attempt at an open alternative to ChromeCast and kin.”
- Yeah, it’s like a Chromecast with a bunch of extra steps thrown in.
- Or a really limited Plex like setup.
- Unfortunately it’s a server / client setup.
- Dude said having Linux available for the N64 makes it easier to port emulators & console games.
- It’s a legit case of “because I can”.
- www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Nintendo_64 can be edited to no longer say “vaporware”.
- It’s been done before but never submitted.
- Our very own Mr_Alert in chat got Linux running on a Nintendo 64 four years ago after a lot of work building device drivers for it.
- He showed a demo of his N64 booting Linux back at SCaLE 14x and was featured on the Linux Action Show!
- Linux Action Show at Timestamp 1:40–
- https://youtu.be/yIoPB6_M-GU
- And here on his video, Timestamp 2:37:
- https://youtu.be/Q3cPWUT8hXw
- Have you ever forgotten the commands to install a Linux program from the command line? Or just didn’t know the commands for a new distro you are in?
- The Command-not-found search engine will help you.
- Type the name of any Linux app you need to install.
- Then it will return the command you need to install the app from the terminal for all the main distros.
- Such as apt-get, pacman or dnf install for xterm or gimp.
- Also gives a brief description of the program you are looking for and what it does.
- I tossed this in the notes this week because I was tracking down some dependencies and Googs listed it as a result.
- It was handy for tracking down some libs with nonstandard package names.
- Very good if you have a mix between Debian/Buntu and RH/Fedora systems, because that’s where the actual fragmentation exists in Linux.
- The goshdarned package names!
- If you ever plugged a firewire interface into your PC and headed over to alsamixer you were usually greeted with volume control, if you were lucky.
- Getting access to mixer controls, line levels, phantom power, phase invert and the like could only be done with ffado-mixer or hinawa-utils.
- 7 common chipsets are supported totaling some 40 devices.
- It’s 100% Rust so the kids will love it.
- Should find its way into ALSA but you can build it yourself and it’s reached a point to where I feel comfortable recommending trying it out.
- Control the H6 from your PC.
- Homebrew cable.
- This is one of those throwing it in because it is neat / helpful.
Slice of Pi
- Hey! Check it out!
- Links for the actual stuff so you can buy one to try for yourself.
- If the 750ti works, I’m buying a Pi4 Compute module and the IO board.
- But it seems the moment you boot with the NVidia drivers installed the whole system locks up.
- The Pi runs software from the RGBtoHDMI project originally created with the BBC Micro.
- Signals are brought out via a daughterboard to the expansion header.
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