Another fine scrapyard (that is my home) find!
One of the pioneering ARM-based netbooks — half a gigabyte RAM is very limiting by today's standards, but with TUI software it should be enough, mine even has a built-in 3G modem (and I still have my unlimited, albeit slow, data plan SIM-card somewhere) and its battery is still at 60% of original capacity. It currently runs Ubuntu 20.13 Claustrophobic Centipede (or something 🤪), but needs Void BADLY!
Okay, now it's running Void and Linux kernel 6.3 to boot! Illegal instruction occurred because some packages in Void (surprisingly, including gcc) redefine CFLAGS set in common/cross-profiles, this is why even basic stuff like procps-ng gets built broken with wrong ones.
Now I'm in the process of making a build template for accelerated X server for Tegra: https://github.com/grate-driver/xf86-video-opentegra
Cross-building is sure complex, some such packages are marked as nocross in Void. Well, I can always build natively 😁
@threat Welcome aboard! Glad you like it. Getting Void to run on this machine was fun and it mostly works now. A pity I didn't share my progress more, in fact, last Friday I really wanted to, but that single malt scotch got to me first🥴
Maybe I should do a longer post on it on Gemini (I do have that capsule for a reason, right?) and share a patch set. These netbooks used to have a viable community and it's nice that having only ½G RAM it's capable of running relatively up-to-date s/w
@threat
> try to be mindful with their hardware of past
Oh, I'm the uncrowned king of this stuff, all my hardware, except for a phone is over a decade old. Even my Pleroma instance is running on an olde MacMini G4😂
Now that I think about it, I think I have never produced any e-waste, all my computers are either in working condition or got donated to somebody.
I have even donated my very first 386SX to my high school. While I still was in it!
