Void Linux

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Re: Void Linux

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Roland wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:49 pm I installed it now... It works but seems to be still very unstable and cannot load any complicated sites. I was not able to load bookmarks from any html file I tested, either. Compared to Wayfarer it feels still quite 'alfa'.
Hi Roland,

I installed and tested the Eolie WebKit web browser on Void Linux today and it works better than Epiphany. It loads websites very fast. You don't need to start it with the activated variable "WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE".

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Re: Void Linux

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Another screenshot of Eolie on the X1000:

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Re: Void Linux

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xeno74 wrote: Sun Aug 22, 2021 7:46 am Date and Time with NTP

Install the package NTP:

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sudo xbps-install -S ntp
Enable the service:

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sudo ln -s /etc/sv/ntpd /var/service
Reboot and check if the NTP service works:

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sudo sv status ntpd
Output: run: ntpd: (pid 2296) 493497782s
It seems, it takes longer to get the correct date and time with NTP on Void Linux so all SSL certifcates aren't valid. I solved it with modifying the NTP runit script:

sudo vi /etc/sv/ntpd/run

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#!/bin/sh
# exec isc-ntpd -g -u ntpd:ntpd -n >/dev/null 2>&1
exec ntpdate pool.ntp.org
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Re: Void Linux

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Timezone

The default system timezone can be set by linking the timezone file to /etc/localtime:

For example for Berlin:

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sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
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Re: Void Linux

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Installation of the new Arctic Fox 27.12.0 deb package on Void PPC Linux:

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Re: Void Linux

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Void PPC Linux boots very fast and works well in a virtual e5500 PPC64 QEMU machine with KVM-HV:

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Re: Void Linux

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Hi All,

I released a new Void PPC img with a boot and root partition including the void-installer today.

Download: void-live-powerpc-20211007.img.tar.gz 3.3G (Img size: 7.5G)
md5sum: fb46baf2e013a1dfb641345a49132b77

New:
  • Packages updated
  • Added kernel 5.10.39 and the RC4 of kernel 5.15 for the X1000 and X5000 to the small fat boot partition
  • Added initial ramdisks for booting with a label for the X1000 and X5000 to the small fat boot partition
  • Added device tree blob files for the X5000/20 and X5000/40 to the small fat boot partition
  • Added kernel modules for the kernel 5.10.39 and 5.15-rc4
  • Added labels for the two partitions in this img. ("VOID_BOOT" for the small fat boot partition and "void" for the ext4 root partition for booting with a label.)
  • Added "ntfs-3g" for Roland
  • Added WebKit web browser Epiphany
  • Added Eolie WebKit web browser
  • Updated Arctic Fox to version 27.12.0
  • Renamed the libglamoregl.so to libglamoregl.so.bak
  • Fixed the ntpd run script
You can image your USB stick with Void with the following commands (Example for sdb):
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    dd if=void-live-powerpc-20211007.img of=/dev/sdb
    Output:

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    15695871+0 records in
    15695871+0 records out
    8036285952 bytes (8.0 GB, 7.5 GiB) copied, 2364.19 s, 3.4 MB/s
    
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    e2fsck -f /dev/sdb2
You can use GParted for enlarging the partition and resizing the root file system.

Booting Void from a USB stick (Example):

X5000:
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    X5000> usb reset
    Output: ... scaning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found ...
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    X5000> ls usb 0:1
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    X5000> setenv bootargs root=LABEL=void rootdelay=5
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    X5000> fatload usb 0:1 1000000 uImage-5.15
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    X5000> fatload usb 0:1 1c00000 cyrus_p5040.dtb
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    X5000> fatload usb 0:1 2000000 uinitrd-5.10
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    bootm 1000000 2000000 1c00000
X1000:

IMPORTANT: Please connect the USB stick after you have reached the CFE with the f key.
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    CFE> setenv bootargs "root=LABEL=void rootdelay=5"
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    CFE> ramdisk -z -addr=0x24000000 -fatfs usbdisk0:initrd-5.10.img
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    CFE> boot -elf -noints -fatfs usbdisk0:vmlinux-5.15
You can log into this system as amigaone with the password "amigaone".

Installation

You can install Void with the installer (Desktop link) or image the ext4 root partition on the USB stick to a partition on your hard disk with "dd".

For example:

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dd if=/dev/sdd2 of=/dev/sdb6 && e2fsck -f /dev/sdb6 && resize2fs /dev/sdb6 && tune2fs -L void /dev/sdb6
The installer works very well. Please select the bootloader entry "none Manage bootloader otherwise" because we boot Void with U-Boot or with CFE on our AmigaOnes.

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Re: Void Linux

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I successfully tested the new Void img with the default X5000 Linux kernel 5.15-rc5 in a virtual e5500 QEMU KVM-HV machine today.

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Re: Void Linux

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I tested the GTK+ Pipe Viewer for YouTube on Void today. It works well and it is a good alternative way to watch YouTube videos.

Screenshot of YouTube in action with ViewTube in Interweb and with the GTK+ Pipe Viewer on Void PPC:

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Re: Void Linux

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NFS mount on Void PPC:

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Watching the AmiWest 2021 day1 stream on Void PPC:

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