conformance to standard nand management (formatting etc.) tools, and direct
communication with mtd-aware filesystems such as jffs2 and ubifs.
Have you tried apt-get with --no-install-recommends? Sometimes the
recommends get in the way in surprising ways.
hmmm...
well i can only tell you, that this is a quite virgin trisquel installation,
and i did not mess with any package repo settings (other then adding your
repo to sources.list).
it seems like it is looking for "freesh-keyring:i386", and while
"freesh-keyring(:all)" is available (and i
@AFENO
thanks that’s nice of you to help out on the bug*issues
Muchas Gracias Ruben ;-)
I would like to remember the associate membership program for whoever wants
to monthly donate to the Trisquel project: https://trisquel.info/member
I have no idea which devices this is compatible with. It could be dodgy...
Some people have mentioned security updates, or rather seemingly lack of
them.
As far as I can tell you synchronise the packages with Ubuntu according to
templates you have created which gets rid of the nonfree packages. However,
it isn't clear how often this is done. Another concern is that
I followed jxself's example and threw a portion of my income at trisquel.
It's a fixed %, not a fixed amount. It depends on my income, before expenses.
And yes, I have to budget this in. But there are both gratis and libre
software to do so. So I save my rights and money through Free
I wonder if exploiting the firmware in some USB device could be used to
create a so-called "Bad USB" attack, without the victim knowing their USB
drive has been turned into a zombie. Stranger things have happened...
I read that modern SSDs are just as resilient as HDDs. In fact, in many cases
they have a lower failure rate than an HDD used for the same tasks. What is
best is to use SSD for frequently-written files such as the programs while
storing and backing up to an HDD that isn't used often.
To be
If it's possible to separate parts of the OS that get written often on the
SD-card, that would be really cool.
Of course, most of the 8Gib would remain unused, which would be a waste of
real-estate. But at least, it would possibly keep it usable for a really long
time.
I don't know for
The normal way to "export" the bookmarks (through the related window that one
can get from the "Bookmarks" menu or with Ctrl+Shift+O) gives an HTML file,
not a JSON file.
It was tried in the past: https://trisquel.info/en/tasks
I do not know why the suggested amounts were so small, neither why the idea
was abandoned.
Maybe some of the OS-- parts of it that are hardly moved, often read? (I
assume that copying to and from is what kills NAND, and not reading from...?)
Ah ha! Good to know, thanks!
You're welcome! :)
Thanks guys.
I don't understand much of what a lot of writes on disk involves exactly
(changing location of files, things like that?), but looking for it on the
web, I found this (https://askleo.com/can_a_usb_thumbdrive_wear_out/):
The best use of USB thumb drives and other flash
yay!
https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/07/31/0323255/new-crowdfunding-campaign-offers-modular-eoma68-computing-devices
I think you misunderstand the problem with flash memory. It's not random
failures, but the inevitability of successfully writing to a bit on the flash
memory for the last time (since each bit can only be written to a particular
number of times), after which the flash memory becomes useless.
Interesting! Thank you for that link. I'm also wondering why this has been
abandoned.
it's full source code available, for both versions (all GPLv2 compliant).
the first version from allwinner is... odd. they didn't do an MTD design,
and they extended the block size beyond that of a normal NAND write-block...
very weird. anyway it works.
the second is a rewrite to
argh there was a guy who did some research on the mailing list about USB-SSD
drives a while ago, he found some reaaally good ones that had dual USB and
SATA interfaces, those he said were superb.
one of the main problems with USB flash drive firmware is they do cacheing of
the first few
don't EVER get anything other an an Intel S3500 series drive (or anything
else with INTEL ssd controllers) - watch out for the S3700 series they use a
3rd party totally-shit SSD controller - or now you *might* be okay with
Samsung EVO Pro, i haven't tested them though.
report here:
You can run an OS on flash memory, but you will have to replace it
eventually; it's not about "failure rate" with flash memory so much as
failure time, because all flash memory has a definite number of writes that
can be performed on it. Intelligent wear leveling tries to maximize this
Eh, mybe the Magique is onto something there. Try converting the json to html
http://json.bloople.net/
I have a Samsung SSD. It works pretty well. But I definitely wouldn't buy a
no-name generic drive. But I back up to my old HDD just for safety...
I'm not sure I understand :
"universe" repo appears in Synaptic in Trisquel while "main" is the one
updated in Ubuntu?
And you can't know how often the packages are updated?
So what? I mean, what's the big deal?
Exactly, I'd rather wear out a "disposable" and replaceable part rather than
the part physically unmovable.
Also, the OS most will most likely occupy a small fraction of the available
space. And considering the OS on the NAND as a backup OS is a really nice
idea.
But thinking of the
> Wait, what if the NAND part wears out and becomes unuseable? Is an SD-card
still useable?
Yeah, based on what lkcl has said, support for booting from a microSD card is
in the boot ROM. The NAND doesn't have to be used at all.
So MTD is an abstraction layer for raw flash storage?
According to this, it's needed in order for the CPU to access the NAND
(http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1187102=5).
Or am I missing something?
Cool, so the only downside being that it's not replaceable, then using it
minimally should be the best.
and worst case, it's like there's never been any NAND. No big deal :)
Thanks for the info!
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