Quirky has returned!

[BarryK]

Blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202403/quirky-has-returned.html

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QV is very early days, but looking promising.

Anyone reading this who has experience with btrfs?

[rockedge]

Anyone reading this who has experience with btrfs?

only enough to build it into a 6.8 kernel. Right now I have successfully compiled an RT patched version and a regular with aufs, btrfs and overlay configured to be built into the kernel, but it refuses to boot successfully for one reason or another.....

Working on it.... but I have not actually used btrfs that I know of.....

[williwaw]

Anyone reading this who has experience with btrfs?

only with zfs snapshots

[dancytron]

I watched this video on setting up MX Linux with btrfs and then using the rollback and snapshot application with it a couple of days ago. I'm not sure if it would work with a frugal install.

Probably stuff you already know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq06PCvJLt0

[BarryK]

Probably stuff you already know.

I actually understood the video! It would have been gobbledegook a few days ago.

As I understand it, snapshots work on a subvolume, and snapshots can work in a frugal install.
I will get around to trying it soon, and post a report.

So far, QV is a very pleasant experience.

[williwaw]

some explanations of btrfs do seem like gobblygook at first.

here is one that I found useful. I started reading here

[BarryK]

Busy fixing bugs, before I release a pre-alpha.

Today I found that the Void gutenprint package is broken, kind of. The 'cups-genppd.5.3' utility is supposed to generate all the ppd files, but doesn't just gives a weird error. It seems that the Void devs have not solved it, just avoided it, by shipping the package with all the ppd's pre-generated -- the folder of gzipped ppds is about 90MB!

My drive-image file is already too big. So I have substituted with the gutenprint package from OE kirkstone (EasyOS) and now gutenprint works -- without having that enormous folder of ppd's.

I have also added the small 'foomatic-db-compressed-ppds' package from Debian. That provides all the foomatic ppds. No need for the rest of foomatic -- Void has 'foomatic-db' which is 62MB after install -- huh?! that is just not needed!

EDIT:
Remembering... rcrsn51 posted this back in 2009:

https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=41473

Yeah, gutenprint has a single file with all the printer information in a very compact form, from memory I think it is about 500KB (checked, it is 534KB). If cups-genppd.5.3 is run to generate the ppd's, even when they are gzipped the ppd folder is about 90MB (i just checked, it is 97MB). The Void gutenprint package lacks that small binary file and ships with the ppds, which is ridiculous. They seem to be stuck in the past.

That's my very quick assessment anyway, perhaps they have good reason for how they have done it.

[BarryK]

Lockdown has been implemented, see blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202403/qv-lockd ... ented.html

One change that I'm thinking, is will allow swap partitions.
So, if there is a swap partition, it will be used.
I locked out swap partitions, but rethinking, that is probably unnecessary paranoia.