The Liminix project is creating a Nix-based OpenWrt-style embedded Linux system for configuring consumer wifi routers. We use the Nix language for congruent configuration management, and packages from the Nix package system.
Planned features include
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seamless management of configuration and secrets across a network of Liminix devices
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robust dependency-based service/process management so that a device can respond usefully when hardware or network connectivity changes.
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Recent news
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Longer than expected
Given that it’s a month since the last update, one might reasonably - and correctly - surmise that chopping around modules and services is taking longer to sort out than I’d anticipated it would.
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Full service wash
Once upon a time I wrote
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Time to tidy up
Last week I wrote:
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We didn't start the fire(wall)
tl;dr:
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nftables or fn stable
Hadn’t realised it had been so long since I last updated this, but progress has been slow lately.
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Update update
This week^Wfortnight I’ve added a
liminix-rebuild
command. It usesmin-copy-closure
to copy the systemConfiguration closure onto the device, then copies theactivate
binary (and some other bits) into/persist
. Then it reboots the device, and the next time it comes up it will run the new activate. -
Copying copy-closure
Shortly after all the work to reduce system closure size last time, I tried adding the necessary packages to support
nix-copy-closure
and saw it start building a complete C++ system with Boost. My fears that this would lead to quite a large increase in the system size were, it turned out, entirely founded. -
Erase and rewind
Late update this week, and it’s little more than “hey, I’m still alive”. I’ve been a bit under the weather and spending my discretionary computer time on playing GP Bikes instead of getting anything useful done.
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Some assembly required
tl;dr Premature optimization in the rootfs of my emu
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Writes of way
It ought to work, anyway. Next week maybe I can talk about it in the past tense and not the future conditional.
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Nothing to write /home about
This week in Liminix: a change in the plan. Much to think about, nothing to show
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We've got mail
As you’ll see if you’re reading this on www.liminix.org (but not if you’re using the RSS feed) we’re now on version 0.2 of the web site. I’ve starting to add a bit more structure beyond the blog entries and would draw your attention particularly to:
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Side quest
This week: I made a video, then I went on a tangent.
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MT vessels: make some noise
tl;dr MT300N-v2 and MT300A are both implemented
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Ready for action
Last week I said I was going to spend this week on fixing the 5GHz wireless suport and then put the GL-AR750 away and start working on some other device. Some of that happened …
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Order, Order
tl;dr for this week: I can browse the internet on an Android phone connected by wifi to my Liminix test device :-)
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Tunnel Vision
This week in Liminix: am happy to report that the rewritten PHRAM/tftpboot stuff almost worked first time, and the delta between first and second time was just a simple syntax error. The GL-AR750 boots :-)
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on multiple fronts
This week I have been dabbling on multiple fronts.
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Taking stock
I am pleased and proud to announce that Liminix has been awarded a grant from the NGI Zero Entrust fund administered by the NLnet Foundation - the overall objective being to turn it from something that runs my home internet into something that could run other people’s (yours? if you’re reading this, you’re probably the target audience) home/small office internet as well.
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