Subj : a desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Jul 23 2017 15:52:18

Hey Nicholas!

 NB> Or just doing something completely different.

That is an option.  Speaking for myself I tend to lean towards text based 
thingies but have been distracted by multimedia streaming in the past.  
Speaking of which there is mention of an article in the latest Free Software 
Foundation Bulletin Issue 30 Spring/Summer 2017 titled "Running a TV channel 
with free software" by Zeehan Hasan.  It caught my eye but I haven't followed 
up on actually reading the article.

 NB> there's actual instructions for doing so these days.

The Linux From Scratch people have been providing great documentation for ages 
now.  This particular build is somewhat based on the Cross Linux From Scratch 
method along with some tricks I've learned over the last decade and a half 
maintaining my x86_64 hosts, not to mention ttylinux and some of my early 
attempts at making compactflash disks bootable.  For that I can refer to "Flash 
ttylinux of the 21st Century" as evidence that I have been hacking for quite 
some time now ... and then some.  Prior to that I had a compactflash boot I 
called "Multimedia Extravaganza" but I doubt a search will find a reference to 
it.  Flash ttylinux used to get quite a few hits.  Those were the days.

Anyhow I am closing in on building the very first kernel on the raspi3 which 
will then be followed by it booting up the stage2 enviroment it now has at it's 
disposal in order to build the very first (first for me) stage3 pure 64 bit 
aarch64 system.  I am predicting much fun will be had in this ongoing process.

Life is good,
Maurice

.... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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