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Do you have something against regular vanilla Debian? As a long time Debian user myself, I would feel much more out of my depth on Manjaro, personally.

Thanks for the info, I learned something. Video and graphical stuff is a bit out of my wheelhouse.

For your amusement, I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Bjarne Stroustrup, which I serendipitously came across (again) just yesterday:

No not really. I just like to gripe whenever things are deprecated in favor of 'modern' alternatives, especially ones that surely use (proprietary?) JavaScript. But I have used it, most recently for the last release announcement. When trying to convert the result of HedgeDoc site (Markdown) into the forum, using bbcode was my approach. I almost got it to work. I am not aware of anything else that might even come close to being scriptable. My understanding (from brief research at that time) was that Invision themselves have deprecated it a long time ago already. So I am only ribbing you a bit, not really sure how feasible it is for us to keep it. But there is also, for example, bbcode-mode in Emacs. And I do use Edit With Emacs (FF plug-in) quite often.

Not that I am aware of. Armbian is focused on much lower level things, like kernels, etc. Have you studied the script? Maybe you could adapt it (or even use it directly)?

I vaguely recall some other thread about 'watchdog breaking on newer kernel', did you search the forums?

Don't be discouraged if people don't see this right away. Maybe bump it again later. Well, here, take my bump. Those warnings are to scare off the tidal waves of people seeking free support through the back door, not for actual well thought out propositions like you are making here. Did you try playing with this locally yet?

Nice chart! So nice, in fact, that I will spare you the rms sermon.

If original guy has lost interest, maybe you guys would like to collaborate on an active fork. Assuming this is something you will be maintaining anyway for your own usage. This is the beauty (and opportunity) of F/LOSS. We have options in such cases.

Not only that, I have read bad things about it. Lots more info on the broader topic here, including some hardware recommendations further down. But Werner already basically gave you the tl; dr version. There is a link in that thread to another one though that is specifically about ROCKPro64 as NAS, including some discussion of specific SATA adapter cards and chipsets. Please do add your feedback there (or in PINE64 wiki, etc.).

No reason why it shouldn't, as that is just another user space package like any other (AFAIU). But maybe you can report back how it worked for you, for the benefit of the next person who comes along looking.

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Done. Next time @MichaIng (or anyone, really) please 'flag' the post to bring it to (all) moderator attention. I only happened to notice your request because I was skimming through the All Activity feed like I usually do.

Unfortunately not supported. I did not say not possible. There are some threads around the forums with hints, but you will be on your own. Better approach (IMO) is to learn / set up / maintain some better config management, which could be anything from a dotfiles repo to Ansible (or others) depending on your needs. Then the idea is you just run a few things after a fresh install, and you are right back where you were.

If the (one) disk is large enough, you could also dual boot.

Yes, once I started thinking about DIN rail, something like this was the next logical conclusion. Mounting the SBC themselves on some mount (in addition to just the power supply). So I looked into these, and found: some generic (mostly plastic) ones on AliExpress some nicer (some metal) ones from specialty suppliers ($$$) But all of the above were IMO much too expensive for what they are. And with the generic ones, no guarantee that your board would even fit. I guess you could check measurements and drill holes though. So in my mind, I thought 3d printing would be the best solution. Customized to particular boards. Or even better, a F/LOSS published CAD template for creating your own to spec. I didn't look far into that, but would be surprised if it did not already exist. Maybe even just source the plastic (or metal) DIN clips, and screw a piece of sheet metal to that, bent into an "L" shape (as in the picture). Drill holes as needed, use standard standoffs (which we should all already have an assortment of on hand IMO). Back to your specific request @Igor, I think such things may exist already on AliExpress(?). But it's been a while since I looked.

I was going to make a topic about this, but then I searched and found this one. I recently needed to replace power supply on my monitor. I ended up with Mean Well DIN rail one, because it was half the price of comparable brick. And it is like 500K MTBF or something like that. A real industrial power supply. Far, far better than the vast majority of cheap no name power supplies we are already probably running. In my case, it was certainly better than the cheap one that came with my Monoprice 30" monitor (the one I replaced). Anyway, there is a lot to like about DIN rail supplies (especially in concert with SBCs), so I don't think this will be my last one: You can run multiple SBC off one of these, distributing power through readily available (and inexpensive) terminal blocks. Besides terminal blocks, there is a wide array of existing components for these, as they are an industrial standard. They mount to wall or rack, saving space and making cable management easier. In my case, the DIN rail supply was half the price of comparable brick (not sure if I just got lucky, @lanefu in IRC reported the opposite). Long life and higher quality (being industrial supplies; assuming you go with a good brand like Mean Well). I am sure I am forgetting some things. Anyway, discuss.

Previous estimate I totally pulled from my rear end, because I have no idea. But sounds like maybe a little more often than I was thinking. Probably whatever system default is doing is likely fine, unless you really know what you are doing and/or have some reason for changing it?

Have you tried replacing the power supply? I can recommend Mean Well, they manufacture quality supplies at very reasonable prices. I use them for all my SBC (and most other electronics, too). Also, when you check any power supply, you need to do so under load. Like during startup, etc. As that is when you will see possible power dips. Of course be careful while doing so!

It seems to me like outreach efforts over the years (by people like @NicoD, etc.) have been putting us on the map. I also tried to help get the word out on last release announcement, which ended up being picked up / re-posted more places than ever before (including LWN, Tom's Hardware, r/linux, etc.) which I think probably helped, too.

Sounds way too frequent to me. Unless you are maybe constantly writing to it or something. In which case you should use something more robust like the sort of (industrial, expensive) hardware they recommend for ZFS cache. In normal usage I would think like twice a year (or quarterly, monthly?) maybe, I dunno. Why do you think you need to do it so often? Yes and a lot of info out there on the Internet about trimming SSD are out of date. In most cases all that is done automatically now. As you point out though, I am not sure how this works on flash devices.

Almost certainly not. For some more context, see the 'BSP, blobs, ‘vendor’ kernels and bootloaders' section of the recent release announcement. There is also some info in Armbian documentation. This is essentially/roughly the raison d'être for Armbian in the first place. Welcome aboard!

Anyone heard of this? I had not, until it was brought to my attention in a comment to the release announcement I sent to LWN. From https://validation.linaro.org/ : There is also https://www.lavasoftware.org/ : https://wiki-archive.linaro.org/LAVA : https://www.linaro.org/blog/lava-fundamentals/ https://github.com/Linaro/lava Anyway, plenty info in the Internet about it. I had a couple questions / thoughts: Any of you heard about / familiar with this? Is this suitable for our use-case?

@NicoD was looking for a video thumbnail just the other day in fact. Maybe you guys can eventually link up and do some collaboration? Besides other things mentioned. Thanks for reporting back. Don't worry, we all come and go. I disappear for weeks and months some times. We all do what we can. Cheers!

Eventually you figure this out, get it working, then you get curious about other devices, some time after that become contributor, women swoon and small children look up to you with admiration. Until then, good luck, you are going to need it! Actually, jokes aside, sounds not so insurmountable based on what you describe. Sorry if I can't help with any more than cheerleading.