05-15-2022, 03:25 PM
Hello again TRS-80
Speaking of which while I never owned a "Trash-80", my very first PC was a Tandy 8086 with an ancient WD IDE 20MB hard drive on an ISA card and one of my favorite memories is the day I removed it while starting up and was messing with it when to my amazement the CGA screen lit up and there was...a.. desktop! in ROM!! Visions of a subconscious filled my imagination LOL
Anyway, I'm awaiting delivery on a high quality nibbler to finish out my case shroud, but as it is my temps drop by almost 10C with the case shroud installed. It's a tornado in there. So far I've played with 7 distros, 2 different (Leap and Tumbleweed) from OpenSuse, 2 diffewrent Armbian and OpenMediaVault (which is also Armbian IIRC), Manjaro, NEMS and NetBSD. The only one that supported all my hardware was Aarch Slackware64 probably due to the 5.17.4 kernel especially since I'm using BTRFS on my RAID and those modules need constant updating as it is being developed so aggressively. 4X kernels just don't cut it. Thankfully I learned how to apt and zypper search and force an update so I could get newer kernels on the others. They don't all still work audio but that's a minor issue.
Brent, one of the Aarch Slackware devs rebuilt the SPI image at my behest to enable USB very early and now everything boots and I can even select multiboot items whether extlinux.conf, UBoot, or Grub. I like OpenMediaVault's web admin but I have yet to identify what it is, and OpenSuse's Cockpit is quite close so I'm hoping to repackage all of the rpms to slackpackages so I can install it on Aarch Slackware. In that same form I'm, learning what is required to build packages from source on ARM because as badly as Suse's conky package runs (I think it leaves out important dependencies like luajit or imblib2) it is still great to be able to monitor exactly what I want to see, no more, no less so hopefully I can improve it in Slack.
At the same time I'm working to understand NetBSD better 'cuz ZFS is terrific! That said BTRFS is rapidly evolving so maybe it will catch up.
Best wishes, mate and just FTR Slackware is not maintenance intensive. In fact, it can be sort of boring it is so stable and solid but it does exactly what it's told and nothing behind my back. I like that.
Speaking of which while I never owned a "Trash-80", my very first PC was a Tandy 8086 with an ancient WD IDE 20MB hard drive on an ISA card and one of my favorite memories is the day I removed it while starting up and was messing with it when to my amazement the CGA screen lit up and there was...a.. desktop! in ROM!! Visions of a subconscious filled my imagination LOL
Anyway, I'm awaiting delivery on a high quality nibbler to finish out my case shroud, but as it is my temps drop by almost 10C with the case shroud installed. It's a tornado in there. So far I've played with 7 distros, 2 different (Leap and Tumbleweed) from OpenSuse, 2 diffewrent Armbian and OpenMediaVault (which is also Armbian IIRC), Manjaro, NEMS and NetBSD. The only one that supported all my hardware was Aarch Slackware64 probably due to the 5.17.4 kernel especially since I'm using BTRFS on my RAID and those modules need constant updating as it is being developed so aggressively. 4X kernels just don't cut it. Thankfully I learned how to apt and zypper search and force an update so I could get newer kernels on the others. They don't all still work audio but that's a minor issue.
Brent, one of the Aarch Slackware devs rebuilt the SPI image at my behest to enable USB very early and now everything boots and I can even select multiboot items whether extlinux.conf, UBoot, or Grub. I like OpenMediaVault's web admin but I have yet to identify what it is, and OpenSuse's Cockpit is quite close so I'm hoping to repackage all of the rpms to slackpackages so I can install it on Aarch Slackware. In that same form I'm, learning what is required to build packages from source on ARM because as badly as Suse's conky package runs (I think it leaves out important dependencies like luajit or imblib2) it is still great to be able to monitor exactly what I want to see, no more, no less so hopefully I can improve it in Slack.
At the same time I'm working to understand NetBSD better 'cuz ZFS is terrific! That said BTRFS is rapidly evolving so maybe it will catch up.
Best wishes, mate and just FTR Slackware is not maintenance intensive. In fact, it can be sort of boring it is so stable and solid but it does exactly what it's told and nothing behind my back. I like that.