[Arm-netbook] parabola arm gnu.linux up and running with xfce4

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sunday 19. June 2016 20.42.22 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/micro_desktop/news/
>>
>> quick demo video, libreoffice and a webkit-based browser, i've also
>> got cups up and running.  all ready before the crowdfunding's due to
>> launch in the next few days.
>
> Good news!
>
> I see that the wiki is functioning normally again: the news pages and various
> other dynamic pages appeared empty for a while.

 yes anything using the ikiwiki "inline" plugin stopped working.

> I also saw that Parabola GNU/Linux had a mips64el port but it has been
> discontinued:

 yes that's a pity

> https://wiki.parabola.nu/MIPS_Installation
>
> Maybe that could be revived in some way for the Ingenic jz4775 (albeit as
> mipsel, not mips64el). It appears that the developers just ran out of
> hardware.

 :)

 well i'll have some up and running when i find the time so that's a
problem that can be solved, fortunately.

 talk's in half an hour, gotta go.

l.