Archive for the tag 'GNU/Linux'

on demand mirroring with Nginx – Android docs

I know the Android SDK comes with a complete copy of the documentation. But I noticed that the one online has been recently updated and I want read it even when my ADSL disconnects. Therefore I configured Nginx to obtain a on-demand mirror of that page, which should work for other pages, too. Here it is: Read more »

OSSDL Gentoo overlay

The nice thing about Gentoo is that you can extend its port-like “portage” system by third-party trees. They are called ‘overlays‘ to the official main tree. I have started mine about four years ago after having used Gentoo for more than three years, then. A lot has changed, but something is still missing – and that’s my OSSDL overlay meant for.

The overlay has ebuilds for Read more »

Why I prefer Gentoo

When talking about Linux, most people really mean that-Linux-Kernel-with-userland-tools. And there are a lot of flavours of that as distrowatch shows. As being asked a lot what and why I use [it], here is the answer: Gentoo. And that’s why: Read more »

SheevaPlug Kernel and Gentoo binhost

geschenkboxYesterday I have played around with GIT and

  • merged the Linux kernel tree from Linus Torvalds
  • with the Orion sources from Marvell (i.e. patches for SheevaPlug and OpenRD)
  • added the Gentoo patches (distribution independent)
  • and those for USB displays and SDHC cards
  • and eliminated some harmless, but annoying warnings on ARM.

As I found the configurations of the other kernels for the SheevaPlug on the net a bit unfortunate, you can download my latest kernel flavour here: Read more »

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