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Extend the rant about ubuntu.
| author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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| date | Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:00:53 -0400 |
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| 71 | 2 <b><h1>News</h1></b> |
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| 158 | 4 <h2>April 9, 2007</h2> |
| 5 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.1</a> is out | |
| 6 (changeset 156). Significant upgrades to armv4l: the native compiler works | |
| 7 now, and it's using soft-float. Added armv5l and i586 targets to show how | |
| 8 to do that kind of variant. Added preliminary powerpc support (although | |
| 9 qemu can't run it yet). Reorganized the download directory and rewrote | |
| 10 the <a href=downloads/README>README</a>. Added squashfs back (the kernel | |
| 11 supports it, but it's not using it yet). Moved uClibc to miniconfig. | |
| 12 (Yes, the patch for this is huge, and yes I need to push it all upstream into | |
| 13 the Linux kernel. On the bright side, this one builds on a host that doesn't | |
| 14 have curses installed.) Stopped trying to build qemu (at least until they | |
| 15 get the gcc 3.x dependencies cleaned out), now just warn if it's not there | |
| 16 (so far the build only uses it to sanity-test the cross compiler, which is | |
| 17 now skipped automatically if it's not there).</p> | |
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| 19 <p>I note that some versions of Ubuntu (Edgy and up) are pushing a political | |
| 20 agenda. They install bash, but point /bin/sh to dash instead. (So why | |
| 21 install bash if you're not going to use it?) This breaks all sorts of things, | |
| 22 and if somebody can tell me how to force make to run "/bin/bash" instead of | |
| 23 "/bin/sh", I'll consider trying to deal with the mess. Until then, I suggest | |
| 24 "rm /bin/sh; ln -s bash /bin/sh" to get a working system. (I'm no fan of | |
| 25 bash, but dash is just broken.)</p> | |
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| 27 <p>(Those of you who use vi and want to be able to use the cursor keys while | |
| 28 in insert mode might want to do something similar with vi->vim. Ubuntu seems | |
| 29 to be trying to train users to change their habits. Dog biscuits would be a | |
| 30 more honest approach.)</p> | |
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33 <a href=https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh>this</a> as evidence Ubuntu isn't |
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34 pushing a political agenda. Ok, maybe it's just really bad technical judgement. |
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35 Are they honestly saying that people write shell scripts for the speed? And |
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36 how do you make a size argument and then install bash by default in ADDITION |
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37 to the other shell? Boggle. In 1991 after Linus Torvalds taught his term |
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38 program to understand the minix filesystem so he could upload and download |
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39 without rebooting, he taught it to handle the system calls of bash so he could |
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40 rm/mv/mkdir without rebooting. That's where Linux 0.0.1 |
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41 came from. Bash was the default Linux shell _before_ 0.0.1. Be very |
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42 careful messing with that kind of a de-facto standard, guys. Dash is |
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43 garbage. Background a process with & and then hit ctrl-c: it'll kill it. |
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44 It doesn't understand blah/{blah,blah} file list syntax. It can't do |
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45 "source file.sh" (just ". file.sh", which is unreadable). I repeat: I'm not a |
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46 fan of bash (yeah, the bloat's getting crazy), but dash is broken.</p> |
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48 <p>And that still doesn't explain why "vi" can't use the cursor keys in |
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49 insert mode, but "vim" can...</p> |
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| 127 | 51 <h2>March 6, 2007</h2> |
| 52 <p>Version 0.2.0 is out. This one builds ext2 images which can boot up to a | |
| 53 shell prompt under qemu. This works on i686, armv4l, x86_64, and mipsel. | |
| 54 (Sparc's broken. Anyone who cares about sparc is welcome to debug it.)</p> | |
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| 56 <p>There are now prebuilt ext2 image files in the download directory. | |
| 57 The kernels are in the mini-native tarballs. (Yeah, I should repackage that | |
| 58 next release.) The system emulator invocation for each platform is | |
| 59 the appropriate sources/configs file, and run-mini-native.sh invokes 'em.</p> | |
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| 61 <p>The mailing list is in the usual place if you have any questions.</p> | |
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63 <h2>January 14, 2007</h2> |
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64 <p>There's a new irc channel for the project, #firmware on freenode.</p> |
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66 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=88>Changeset 88</a> builds |
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67 i686, x86_64, armv4l, mips, and sparc. I've made a release tarball of |
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68 that (<a href=downloads/firmware-0.1.1.tar.bz2>firmware 0.1.1</a>, "It works |
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69 for me"), and updated the prebuilt cross-compiler tarballs in the |
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70 <a href=downloads>downloads</a> directory. I've added a big README and |
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72 something qemu can boot is currently left as an exercise for the reader).</p> |
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74 <p>Speaking of which, I'm currently working on adding ext2 packaging |
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75 (via <a href=http://landley.net/code/toybox>toybox</a>) to the build scripts, |
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76 so qemu system emulation can boot the result and then run the next stage |
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| 71 | 79 <h2>December 28, 2006</h2> |
| 80 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=68>Changeset 68</a> builds | |
| 81 a native build environment with a working toolchain. And in celebration, I've | |
| 82 revamped the website with an actual navigation bar and content and such.</p> | |
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| 84 <p>I should put out a release soon.</p> | |
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| 86 <h2>December 5, 2006</h2> | |
| 31 | 87 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=27>Changeset 27</a> builds |
| 88 a relocatable armv4l cross-compile toolchain! Download the tarball, | |
| 89 run ./download.sh, then run ./build.sh, then grab the "build/cross-compiler" | |
| 90 directory and use "bin/armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc" out of that (which | |
| 91 I admit is a bit of a mouthful, for which I blame the FSF).</p> | |
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| 71 | 93 <h2>August 6, 2006</h2> |
| 94 <p>Mecurial repository created. Nothing to see yet, move along...</p> | |
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