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Distros – R.I.P. Mandriva..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 30, 2015 by RGMay 30, 2015

Sad to hear that Mandriva has finally shut up shop…   I remember some years ago (1998?) trying one of the original Mandrake distros – which was derived at that time from Red Hat..     Mandrake (France) later merged with Conectiva (Brazil) to become Mandriva..     As they were still using the RPM format for packaging, I was able to … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, Opinion | Tagged conectiva, mandrake, mandriva, r.i.p, shutdown | Leave a reply

Pi Preparation.. An appropriate kernel cross-compiler toolchain

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 10, 2012 by RGMarch 10, 2012

The Fedora armv5tel / x86_64 cross-compiler toolchain is a bit ancient (GCC 4.1.2!), and the Pi is armv6..  So.. I needed a more up-to-date and architecture-friendly substitute.. After some abortive attempts (some of the other armv7 cross-compilers were just as old!)   I found a set of armv7 / x86_64 cross-compiler rpms – including gcc version 4.6.1 – … Continue reading →

Posted in Dreamplug, Fedora, Hacks, Linux / ARM, Raspberry Pi | Tagged arm, cross-compile, fedora, kernel, linux, mandriva | Leave a reply
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