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Monthly Archives: July 2014

ARM – CuBox to 3.16-rc7 – and an SD Card Warning..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on July 31, 2014 by RGJuly 31, 2014

Just updated the CuBox i4-Pro to kernel 3.16-rc7, from the source code available here: https://github.com/jmontleon/fedora-20-cubox-i_hb/tree/3.16-rc7 $ uname -a Linux rgcubox 3.16.0-rc7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 30 11:31:19 EDT 2014 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux I had originally used an old ‘spare’ micro-SD card (Class 4, 16GB) but had noticed sluggish performance and random filesystem errors, eventually leading … Continue reading →

Posted in CuBox, Linux / ARM, Performance | Tagged class 10, cubox-i4-pro, kernel 3.16-rc7, micro-sd, success | Leave a reply

Kernel 3.16-rc6 – ‘Too Big’?

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on July 24, 2014 by RGJuly 24, 2014

Just installed Kernel 3.16-rc6 on the test system, and – as expected – the latest VMware (10.0.3) and NVIDIA (340.24) compile and install OK… # uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 3.16.0-rc6 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 21 13:56:19 PDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Brief description of all the changes is here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1407.2/03637.html Robert Gadsdon..   July 22, 2014. … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, VMware | Tagged kernel, kernel 3.16-rc6, linux, nvidia 340.24, success, vmware 10.0.3 | Leave a reply

Kernel 3.16-rc4 – ‘Pretty Normal’.. VMware 10.0.3 ‘Security Fix’…

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on July 7, 2014 by RGJuly 7, 2014

Installed Kernel 3.16-rc4 on the test system, and VMware (10.0.3) and NVIDIA (340.17) both install/run OK.. The VMware update is – according to the Release Notes – just a security fix for OpenSSL.. https://www.vmware.com/support/ws10/doc/workstation-1003-release-notes.html Kernel changes for -rc4 are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1407.0/03694.html # uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 3.16.0-rc4 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 6 15:50:25 PDT 2014 x86_64 … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, VMware | Tagged kernel, kernel 3.16-rc4, linux, nvidia 340.17, success, vmware 10.0.3, vmware openssl security fix | Leave a reply
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