This was the final meeting on the sparc emulation series. We got to the point where we have the ability to install packages from a third party repository and installed some “modern” versions of community software.
The coordination challenges persisted, but everybody was involved and there
were only a few issues to deal with. Success is measured one sudo at a time in
this case, since that was the last thing we installed.
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:
All said, this was a fun project, at least I had fun.