After doing some research and testing for the last week I have arrived at the conclusion that Bodhi's ARM branch will best serve our users by moving our core from Debian Wheezy ARMEL to utilize Debian Wheezy ARMHF. I'm not going to get into the technical difference between the two platforms here - just know that in general ARMHF is faster.With this change however, there are some slight changes to our ARM repo details. If you have Debian Wheezy ARMHF...
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Monday, 6 August 2012
That Good Old Linux FUD
Posted on 08:09 by Unknown
Who doesn't love a good Monday morning rant? I caught this article on the news feed of my favorite Linux news site this morning and I must say it upsets me a lot. The too long/didn't read version of this guy's article is that Android is "usable" for most users, while he finds desktop Linux lacking in the usability department. He cites a number of reasons why the distribution he selected (Fedora) isn't "usable" compared to Android. Honestly all of them are your normal anti-desktop Linux FUD and I am tired of it.Oh man - all your hardware doesn't...
Friday, 3 August 2012
HOWTO: Launch OMXPlayer via a GUI
Posted on 08:03 by Unknown
I'm going to be on an ARM kick for the next two weeks before my fall classes start up. In addition to porting Bodhi to the Pi one of my goals is also to replace my media PC with a Pi. Even though the processor in the Pi is fairly weak, it can decode HD video using it's GPU chip if you use the proper media player. This means that your old favorites like VLC and mPlayer will not work, so we must turn to a tool designed just for the Pi: OMXPlayer.Now because OMXPlayer is still very new, it is still very basic. So basic in fact it's key bindings...
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
HOWTO: Clone all Programs Installed via Apt
Posted on 20:03 by Unknown
Today I would like to share a nifty trick for cloning your application selections installed via the apt-get package manager. It is as simple as running two commands. First on the system you wish to clone, open a terminal and run this command (which is on pastebin due to blogger formatting issues).Next, simply copy the package-list to the system you wish to setup a copy on. Finally open a terminal and run:xargs apt-get install -y < package-listIn the same directory you copied the package-list file too. Please note that this trick...
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