On Tuesday 30. August 2016 22.38.52 Sam Geeraerts wrote: > Op Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:03:29 +0200 > > schreef Paul Boddie <[email protected]>: > > It seemed that there is now a certain amount of re-architecting going > > on to make new gNewSense releases easier, but I don't see so much > > progress on the more prominent sites associated with the project. > > It's still in the planning phase. Also, I've been pushing the limits of > what my own machines can do, so I think it's that time of the decade > when I need to get some new(er) gear to do some real work.
I know the feeling! > > I'm interested in trying to build a minimal gNewSense archive for > > mipsel, but I'm not sure where to start and what future work might > > need doing so that a recent Debian release can be transformed for > > this purpose. > > Do you have a particular mipsel platform in mind? Well, to begin with, I'd target the Ben NanoNote, which is a fairly old system now with limited performance but which does run Debian. I did hope to experiment with the jz4775 computer card that looked as if it might be delivered in the EOMA68 campaign, but that's not looking likely as a near-term product. https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop http://rhombus-tech.net/ingenic/jz4775/ We're talking about Ingenic SoCs here, with the Ben NanoNote already supported in the Linux kernel (QI_LB60). I built the 4.7.2 release and it actually ran on the Ben and my Debian installation worked with it, too. The people involved have done a great job keeping support for the Ben up to date. I'm not necessarily planning to get one, but the MIPS Creator CI20 uses a jz4780 SoC and runs Debian. The GCW-Zero handheld games console (apparently somewhat difficult to obtain) uses the jz4770. Once upon a time, there was a mini-PC available with a variety of branding which uses the jz4730, but that SoC is severely under-documented, although I do plan to get recent software working on it some day. > > Another thing I noticed was that the project wiki is very slow. On > > that topic, I can perhaps offer some advice and maybe some assistance > > if that is desirable. > > Known issue. It's been suggested to run MoinMoin on nginx, but I > couldn't get that running myself. Feel free to share your knowledge > about that. On the other hand, I've spent so much time on this without > progress that maybe I'd better just start from scratch with a fresh > server setup. I can easily check with various other Moin users to see which strategy works best. Sometimes, just using mod_wsgi seems to work out. Getting to know the nature of the load you're experiencing may be useful in improving the problem, though. I'm no deployment expert, but I can offer some experience on configuring Moin to resist problematic and demanding usage. Paul _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
