User Mode Linux 5.2
Posted on October 17, 2019
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
User Mode Linux 5.2 User Mode Linux version 5.2 has been uploaded to Debian Unstable and will soon be available on the supported architectures. This upload took more time than usual as I ran into a build time failure caused by newer PCAP library.
Thanks to active upstream developers, this got sorted out quick. In the longer run, we may have a much better fix for it.
What is User Mode Linux a.
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Bpfcc New Release
Posted on October 14, 2019
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
BPF Compiler Collection 0.11.0 bpfcc version 0.11.0 has been uploaded to Debian Unstable and should be accessible in the repositories by now. After the 0.8.0 release, this has been the next one uploaded to Debian.
Multiple source respositories This release brought in dependencies to another set of sources from the libbpf project. In the upstream repo, this is still a topic of discussion on how to release tools where one depends on another, in unison.
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Setting a Lotus Pot
Experiences setting up a Lotus pot in my garden
Posted on October 5, 2019
(Last modified on October 12, 2019)
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| 1451 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Experiences setting up a Lotus Pond Pot A novice’s first time experience setting up a Lotus pond and germinating the Lotus seeds to a full plant The trigger Our neighbors have a very nice Lotus setup in the front of their garden, with flowers blooming in it. It is really a pleasing experience to see it. With lifestyles limiting to specifics, I’m glad to be around with like minded people. So we decided to set up a Lotus Pond Pot in our garden too.
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Cross Architecture Linux Containers
Posted on July 19, 2019
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Linux and ARM With more ARM based devices in the market, and with them getting more powerful every day, it is more common to see more of ARM images for your favorite Linux distribution. Of them, Debian has become the default choice for individuals and companies to base their work on. It must have to do with Debian’s long history of trying to support many more architectures than the rest of the distributions.
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Linux Desktop Usage 2019
Posted on March 15, 2019
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
If I look back now, it must be more than 20 years since I got fascinated with GNU/Linux ecosystem and started using it.
Back then, it was more curiosity of a young teenager and the excitement to learn something. There’s one thing that I have always admired/respected about Free Software’s values, is: Access for everyone to learn. This is something I never forget and still try to do my bit.
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Migrating from Drupal to Hugo
Posted on November 11, 2018
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
TL;DR: Migrating my website from Drupal 7 to Hugo Jump directly to the end titled Migration to Hugo
Initial website Looking back at my website’s history, the domain was first registered sometime in 2003. Back then, it was mostly a couple of html pages. Being (and still) a novice in web, my website was mostly on ideas from others. IIRC, for the bare html one, I took a lot of look wise details from Miss Garrels’ website.
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sg3-utils and NVMe disks
Posted on October 2, 2018
(Last modified on October 3, 2018)
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
sg3-utils, version 1.44, was recently uploaded to Debian. This new upstream release has happened almost 2.5 years after the last release. One important feature to emphasize about is some support for NVMe disks, which are now getting more common on latest range of laptops.
rrs@priyasi:~$ sudo sg_inq /dev/nvme0
[sudo] password for rrs: Identify controller for /dev/nvme0:
Model number: PC401 NVMe SK hynix 512GB Serial number: ES82N092210402J4U Firmware revision: 80003E00
Version: 1.
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Laptop Mode Tools 1.72
Posted on February 1, 2018
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
What a way to make a gift!
I’m pleased to announce the 1.72 release of Laptop Mode Tools. Major changes include the port of the GUI configuration utility to Python 3 and PyQt5. Some tweaks, fixes and enhancements in current modules. Extending {black,white}list of devices to types other than USB. Listing of devices by their devtype attribute.
A filtered list of changes is mentioned below. For the full log, please refer to the git repository.
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Freezing of tasks failed
Posted on December 28, 2017
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
It is interesting how a user-space task could lead to hinder a Linux kernel software suspend operation.
[11735.155443] PM: suspend entry (deep)
[11735.155445] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
[11735.215091] [drm:wait_panel_status [i915]] *ERROR* PPS state mismatch
[11735.215172] [drm:wait_panel_status [i915]] *ERROR* PPS state mismatch
[11735.558676] rfkill: input handler enabled
[11735.608859] (NULL device *): firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8723befw_36.bin
[11735.609910] (NULL device *): firmware: direct-loading firmware rtl_bt/rtl8723b_fw.bin
[11735.611871] Freezing user space processes ... [11755.615603] Freezing of tasks failed after 20.
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apt-offline 1.8.1 released
Posted on July 2, 2017
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
apt-offline 1.8.1 [released](https://github.com/rickysarraf/apt- offline/releases/tag/v1.8.1).
This is a bug fix release fixing some python3 glitches related to module imports. Recommended for all users.
apt-offline (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=medium
Switch setuptools to invoke py3 No more argparse needed on py3 Fix genui.sh based on comments from pyqt mailing list Bump version number to 1.8.1 -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs@debian.org Sat, 01 Jul 2017 21:39:24 +0545
What is apt-offline
Description: offline APT package manager
apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager.
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