Conjuring a Linux distribution out of thin air

In the previous post I figured out all the internal weirdness of Linux booting to get BodgeOS running on actual hardware. The next goal was very clear: getting to a graphical environment. At the start of this month I had the goal set to running a web browser before 2024 ends but I've now slightly adjusted my goals down to being able to type this...

It's been quite a while since I wrote a Megapixels update post. Since my last post libmegapixels has had a lot more testing on hardware other than the PINE64 devices and the Librem 5 which I originally wrote it for. This obviously found a few flaws in my library code for edge cases I hadn't had to deal with before but overall the fundamental...

In the previous part of this series I created a base Linux distribution from a running LFS system. This version only ran as a container which has several benefits that makes building the distribution a lot easier. For a simple container I didn't have to have: A service manager (systemd) Something to make it bootable on x86_64 systems (grub,...

Everyone that has tried to make some nice charts in Grafana has probably come across timeseries databases, for example InfluxDB or Prometheus. I've deployed a few instances of these things for various tasks and I've always been annoyed by how they work. But this is a consequence of having great performance right? The thing is... most the...

Network switches are simple devices, packets go in, packets go out. Luckily people have figured out how to make it complicated instead and invented managed switches. Usually this is done by adding a web-interface for configuring the settings and see things like port status. If you have more expensive switches then you'd even get access to some...