Quirky Xerus 8.1.4 for Raspberry Pi2 and 3

[Sage]

BK blog is back.

[BarryK]

BK blog is back.

Yes, they restored it, with a warning that I should look at reining traffic in (somehow).

So, I have disabled my oldest blog, http://barryk.org/blog, as from traffic logs that is getting a lot of hits. Which is strange.

I will probably change it into static web pages. When I get around to it.

[BarryK]

I do not know if BaCon is in DEV but could we get it with TinyC
http://basic-converter.proboards.com/th ... i-raspbian

But can we call it BeCon as a joke for DividS.

I did have a childhood friend Berry, and that was the way it was spelled.

Yes, BaCon is in the devx pet.

I actually get called Berry quite often. It recently happened at Dominos Pizza, I gave my name, even spelt it out, but the fellow typed in "Berry". Someone told me, that's because he is Indian (as in the sub-continent of India).

Past experience, people from the USA also think my name is Berry when I tell them "Barry".

[cthisbear]

Should not have called it Quirky.

RasBarry sounds about right.

I could never understand why you never ever posted on
Whirlpool Forum here in OZ.

Anyway I posted below and just now the recent review by David.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-re ... 2568913&=3

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[raffy]

Yes, they restored it, with a warning that I should look at reining traffic in (somehow).

Probably there is a way to set up cached pages at hostgator? (Yes, even for static pages.)

It's CPU load that they watch, and I guess the Perl script is the load generator.

Also, it will help to provide a highly visible link to your post in the RPi forum.

My 1c

[veronicathecow]

Hi Barry, been away from Puppy for a while now. I just got a raspberry Pi 3 (don't know if you remember but I tried to arrange a free Pi for you when it started as I thought puppy would be perfect for the PI)
Wanted to say thanks for doing this, I'm sure this will puppy will be highly sort after and I hope it will get on the Noobs list.

[TeX Dog]

link crashes browser on this version of QX
https://www.rt.com/news/365164-assange- ... ks-russia/
Odd stuff like this has been going on for past few weeks does it work outside of USA?

[Sage]

'Fraid it you guys! Runs OK over here. Loads of my US colleagues have been complaining for a few weeks. I think another correspondent has mentioned it on this Forum in the last couple of days. Half-a-guess what the cause might be?!
Would be a superb, excellent idea to edit your profile to show your location!!!
Would be an even better idea to outlaw your Rep & Dem parties, abolish the banks, newsmedia, other abhorrent individuals, groups &&& and start all over again based on the Pilgrim Fathers' principles?

[BarryK]

Hi Barry, been away from Puppy for a while now. I just got a raspberry Pi 3 (don't know if you remember but I tried to arrange a free Pi for you when it started as I thought puppy would be perfect for the PI)
Wanted to say thanks for doing this, I'm sure this will puppy will be highly sort after and I hope it will get on the Noobs list.

Hi, I remember you! Welcome back.

Quirky 8.1 is like any first release, there are issues. 8.1.1 should be out soon, I am hoping in a few days.

[BarryK]

link crashes browser on this version of QX
https://www.rt.com/news/365164-assange- ... ks-russia/
Odd stuff like this has been going on for past few weeks does it work outside of USA?

There a quite a lot of sites that crash the ARM build of SeaMonkey.

Version 2.40 was released back in March. I was wondering why no releases after that, and started reading the SM forums.

SM is actually up to 2.46, however, they have some kind of problem that they have not been able to fix, hence no official releases.

I might have a go, download the latest source from their svn/git repo.

[BarryK]

I came here to escape U.S. election coverage, It is so beyond nasty.

Yeah, watching the occasional news report from the point of view of an outsider, it is deplorable.

One wonders what has happened to the USA. Where are those dignified, principled statesmen, like the founding fathers?

This post is OT, but anyway, this is a good read on the Founding Fathers:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Founding-Fathers

So Abraham Lincoln is not one of them?

[dancytron]

Lincoln was 80 years later ("4 score and 7 years ago").

[Olle]

[quote="

Quirky 8.1 is like any first release, there are issues. 8.1.1 should be out soon, I am hoping in a few days.

Since no Adobe Flash is available for ARM, GetFlash could be removed from the Menu>Internet

I've tried Gnash, no success.

Kernel 4.8 is built for armhf:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8/


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[zygo]

Pakt,

It seems you can boot a RasPi 3, 2 or 1 from a USB device using bootcode.bin-only boot mode.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... bootmodes/

Saves on shuffling sd cards.

[TeX Dog]

Pakt,

It seems you can boot a RasPi 3, 2 or 1 from a USB device using bootcode.bin-only boot mode.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... bootmodes/

Saves on shuffling sd cards.

I tried multiple versions (dated from article release ) from that guys repo, never got to work.

[zygo]

TeX Dog,

That's disappointing. Do you agree bootcode.bin is needed in the USB FAT32 partition (though it is not executed) along with the rest of the image files. Also that bootcode.bin should be simply copied from the current Raspbian download to the onboard SD card.

Anyway, they do point out that it doesn't wok on all drives.

[TeX Dog]

Yes, I expect that USB hardrive was too slow, now but I expect his bootcode.bin was a loader and was executed but not finding other files needed would chainload next bootcode.bin found.
The one after his post was much larger than ones before. I wanted to reuse old surplus (smallish by todays) v2 usb hardrives, not really was going to buy new faster usb flash just to test. Flash anything has a horrible track record in my day to day use.

Which makes me wonder how upgrades are done with QX on RPi? and with expanding ability of ext4 why is the image SO large 8G takes a long time to write and most is zeros. Someone online says this is only 400-500Mb uncompressed.

[zygo]

Yes, use of old HDD would be another advantage to USB boot.

They should let you set the timeout to 99s. Have you tried non-Pi power for the HDD? eg powered hub or a Y-cable that some HDDs came with. You might get disc to spin-up before powering-up the Pi.

[pakt]

Pakt,

It seems you can boot a RasPi 3, 2 or 1 from a USB device using bootcode.bin-only boot mode..

Yeah, running on my Pi3 right now that I booted from a USB stick (no SD card at all). Works really well

In my post a few pages back I tried to explain how to do this, but I'm afraid I'm not too good at writing howtos.

The only drawback with booting directly via USB is the slight boot delay (~5s) while firmware waits for any USB device to be detected.

Otherwise my guess is that that loading programs and files from USB is at least as fast if not faster than from SD (haven't done any tests).

[pakt]

Pakt,

It seems you can boot a RasPi 3, 2 or 1 from a USB device using bootcode.bin-only boot mode.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... bootmodes/

Saves on shuffling sd cards.

I tried multiple versions (dated from article release ) from that guys repo, never got to work.

TeX, are you running on a Pi3? If so, you might see if you can follow my howto a few pages back on how I got mine booting directly from USB.