Tag Archives: Devuan

Making A Pristine Build Builder

Posted on 17 August 2017 by

How do you make a clean “sandbox” or “clean room” system to use to build your own systems? How do you prevent “contamination” from the Internet or Bad Guys from crawling into your build process? Nothing is perfect, but you can get close… Continue reading →

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Notes on Devuan on Disk on R.Pi Model 3

Posted on 12 August 2017 by

I’ve moved several of the operating system filesystem bits onto a Real Disk. This is on my Raspberry Pi Model 3. It is noticeably faster, and I’m liking it. Continue reading →

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SystemD Depends on Swap

Posted on 13 January 2017 by

Today my system seemed to hang but was really just glacially slow. It looks like systemD was in a D diskwait state waiting on swap (or potentially some file read / write) and thus couldn’t do it’s job until that resolved… its job being ‘run everything’, that hurts… Continue reading →

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Devuan and Climate Cluster Milestone

Posted on 7 January 2017 by

Some updates on hardware status for me. My Devuan Build Script. Notes on Linpack and climate codes and more. Continue reading →

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More SystemD Bites On the A…?

Posted on 23 December 2016 by

Two more SystemD related Aw-Shits? I think so… Continue reading →

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Well, That Was Fun – not

Posted on 5 July 2015 by

Yet More Tech Talk on systems and networks, with a positive vote for Devuan Linux. Continue reading →

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