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• Nov 23, 2023 Arms length

  Since the last update I have added UBIFS for the Belkin RT3200 (and other devices with larger flash chips), and started an Arm 32 bit port which runs on QEMU and boots (though doesn’t yet do much after booting) on the Turris Omnia. But then I got a little bit sidetracked into improving (read: replacing) the story for upgrading a router once it has Liminix running. (Blatting a new image onto the flash while the system is running from that same flash device is not a good idea. The best case scenario is that the flash write succeeds and then the system wedges solid, but I can’t see any guarantee it wouldn’t crash earlier)

• Oct 12, 2023 Arms race

  This week: I have landed the WIP port for the Belkin RT3200. It’s not finished - nothing flashable yet - but I have cleaned up sufficient of the initial hacks that it can go to main without breaking the MIPS machines.

• Oct 3, 2023 To Arms

  Progress on Liminix ARM support. The device I’m starting with is the Belkin RT3200 (also known as Linksys E8450) which seems to be a reasonably featureful piece of kit, and which I snagged for a very good price on the Bay of E.

• Sep 26, 2023 updoc

  Q: What’s updoc?

• Aug 28, 2023 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.

• Jul 23, 2023 Full service wash

  Once upon a time I wrote

• Jul 9, 2023 Time to tidy up

  Last week I wrote:

• Jun 26, 2023 We didn't start the fire(wall)

  tl;dr:

• Jun 20, 2023 nftables or fn stable

  Hadn’t realised it had been so long since I last updated this, but progress has been slow lately.

• May 22, 2023 Update update

  This week^Wfortnight I’ve added a liminix-rebuild command. It uses min-copy-closure to copy the systemConfiguration closure onto the device, then copies the activate 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.

• May 9, 2023 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.

• Apr 27, 2023 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.

• Apr 16, 2023 Some assembly required

  tl;dr Premature optimization in the rootfs of my emu

• Apr 10, 2023 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.

• Apr 2, 2023 Nothing to write /home about

  This week in Liminix: a change in the plan. Much to think about, nothing to show

• Mar 26, 2023 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:

• Mar 19, 2023 Side quest

  This week: I made a video, then I went on a tangent.

• Mar 12, 2023 MT vessels: make some noise

  tl;dr MT300N-v2 and MT300A are both implemented

• Mar 5, 2023 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 …

• Feb 26, 2023 Order, Order

  tl;dr for this week: I can browse the internet on an Android phone connected by wifi to my Liminix test device :-)

• Feb 19, 2023 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 :-)

• Feb 12, 2023 on multiple fronts

  This week I have been dabbling on multiple fronts.

• Feb 4, 2023 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.