Despite the lack of posts here, we did have a pretty active 2025 with a few items of interest. I’m not planning on going back and adding entries for 2025 since it would be just references to the mailing list that is still getting updated.

As mentioned, the mailing list archive is now working again. It was converted to mlmmj from mailman2 back when I migrated to a static site, and it is not as tightly integrated as it was with the older mailman software.

In our ongoing sparc emulation series, we are pretty close to the end. There will probably be a final meeting on the topic now that everybody is caught up. As per usual, the number of challenges in getting everybody on the same page in virtual meetings with wildly different hardware and virtualization has been interesting.

That is another way of saying that standards and clear instructions matter when performing tasks.

After a lot of thought and the fact that VPS servers now have multiple cores and a useful amount of RAM, it was time to consolidate multiple websites. This is the second consolidation migration and so far it all seems to be OK.

As a side effect, the mailing list archive will start getting updated properly as well.

What else? No real changes since it is still generated the same way, but I have built it on a different platform this time. Time will tell if it was a good idea or not. One can always hope.

This was the conclusion to a little practical exercise we held to get everyone to try somethingoutside of their comfort zone.

Back in September, we had a little workshop on building up an impractical project with an older generation raspberry pi to show a few things:

• Older generation computers can be useful
• x86 is not the only game in town
• GUIs are not always needed
• There are other Linux distributions
• Building an appliance system is not hard
• Serial consoles are useful
• etc.

All said, this was a fun project, at least I had fun.

This was a virtual meeting to have a quick talk about rootless containers and do what should be a relatively simple exercise in using podman in a rootless setting and running a kanboard container.

Needless to say, it went sideways a bit, but it was a fun exercise in an environment where making mistakes are just that, mistakes. We made it most of the way through the exercise, but did not get to the point of having the user level systemd manage the container. Maybe next time.