Orange Pi gets professional, GO powered desktops, Linux hand gestures, and a former Nouveau developer joins team green.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:11 Nouveau developer joins team green
05:00 FyneDesk DM
10:21 Linux hand gestures
14:24 Orange Pi Pro
Ben from Nouveau
- We talked about the Nouveau kernel driver maintainer Ben Skeggs a few months ago.
- He decided to call it quits after years of reverse engineering work on Nvidia GPU drivers.
- It came out of nowhere for those of us keeping track of such things.
- Welp. he just posted a set of 156 patches to the kernel.
- It’s a collection of Nouveau GSP bits and general code cleanup.
- It would appear Ben is back!
- With a new email address.
- I have to imagine there has been a lot of “oh, that’s how that works” going on as of late.
- So last September we had talked about Benn Skeggs stepping down as the Nouveau maintainer.
- Well, the cool thing is that he is back working on it again!
- And just sent 156 new Nouveau GSP patches to the Linux kernel.
- Benn states:
- “The main intention here is to replace the ioctl-like interface that
sits between NVKM and the nouveau DRM driver with more direct calls, to reduce the call-chain complexity (and overhead).”
FyneDesk
https://github.com/FyshOS/fynedesk
- Have you been looking for a Linux desktop environment in Go?
- Welp, I got just the thing.
- This i s part of FyshOS, an OS built using the Fyne toolkit.
- Arandr for display management, xbacklight for brightness control, connman for the wi-fi, and compton for compositing.
- Yeah, this is X, not Wayland.
- It’s under development so you can use fynedesk_runner to recover from crashes without losing where you left off.
- FyneDesk reminds me of a bit of the Afterstep X window manager.
- The layout consists of an app bar and a task bar.
- There is a nice system settings window where you can change font size, system color, adjust keyboard shortcuts, add apps to the App Bar and choose between a dark and light theme.
- The FyshOS live and install ISO uses Debian 12 as its base.
- Also, as most X window manager environments go, FyneDesk is very lightweight.
GestureX
https://github.com/flying-pizza-69/GestureX
- Control Linux-based operating systems using hand gestures.
- This uses a webcam to map custom commands to your hand wiggles.
- It’s using the hand gesture recognition model provided by the Google MediaPipe project.
- Some of the defaults include throwing the goat for firefox, fisting to shutdown, volume thumbs, and okay for bluetooth connect.
- Shotty pew pew opens steam.
- How about a gesture for sudo, I can think of one.
- Or something that would wipe your system, what would that gesture be?
- This is another great new tool for accessibility on Linux, especially for those that have a hard time using the mouse or the keyboard.
- It could see GestureX being used with sign language to launch apps.
- Be careful not to make an “rm -rf” gesture LOL
Slice of Pi
Orange Pi 5 Pro
http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-5-Pro.html
- The Orange Pi 5 Pro has just been released, and includes 16gig of RAM out of the box for a reasonable price.
- It can be had for $127.99 at Amazon or $109 at AliExpress.
- With other variants that are cheaper coming soon, an 8GB for $80 and a 4GB for $60.
- It also has an M.2 NVMe slot on the back, and doesn’t require a separate NVMe SSD hat like the Raspberry Pi 5 does.
- The Orange Pi 5 Pro has support for the Orange Pi OS Android based, Orange Pi OS Arch based, Ubuntu, Debian, and Android 12 operating systems, which are available on Orange Pi’s download page.
- More specs:
- Rockchip RK3588S 8-core 64-bit processor up to 2.4 GHz
- Embedded with 6 TOPS computing power NPU, suitable for developing AI applications
- Arm Mali-G610 MP4 GPU with support for up to 8K@60Hz via HDMI 2.1
- 3.5mm audio jack with headphone and microphone support
- Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 port
- 40-pin header
- Supports USB Type-C power supply
- Rockchip RK3588S 8-core 64-bit processor up to 2.4 GHz
- Being able to get a Ryzen 5 2400 X86 micro PC for $100 has knocked most of the excitement for SBCs out of me as of late.
