Android dreams…

My Model B Raspberry PI is on it’s way. With a shipping date of 2012-03-23, I hope to have it before tax day! This certainly seems like a better investment than an Apple TV or a Roku box as a media computer, but with the ability to run Debian, it will be a great low-powered . . . → Read More: Raspberry PI on it’s way

0) Make sure you can build the Linux kernel

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential kernel-package -y

1) Get the Kernel (kernel.org)
2) cd kernel tree
3) configure and compile

linux-3.1.4$ make menuconfig ARCH=um
linux-3.1.4$ make linux ARCH=um

Voila! You should have a file linux which is an executable . . . → Read More: Building a UML kernel

Forget about bash and zsh, zoid shell is great! It makes things like the following possible:

$ for ($a=0;$a<300;$a++) {print “a is $a\n”;} | mail -s “zoidbergtest” myemailaddress@mydomain.com

Additionally it appears to be extensible. Unfortunately, it may not be 100% finished yet. It *is* open source and *seems* to work great though! For the . . . → Read More: Zoidberg (aka zoid shell)

User-mode Linux is cool. It takes a little bit of knowledge, and then you can work with the Linux kernel as a normal user-mode process.

However the Ubuntu docs are a little old an obsolete. My documentation is here:

sudo apt-get install user-mode-linux uml-utilities bridge-utils debootstrap -y

# Create an empty file to contain the root filesystem
dd . . . → Read More: user-mode Linux

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