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Deploying Guix images on Linode
David Thompson documents migrating to Linode (Akamai Cloud) and deploying Guix system images—image building, boot configuration, and practical notes from moving off DigitalOcean.
4 min · 1,000 words
From Thin Air to Bootable Images: The tine Build System
Martin Pitt and Daan De Meyer introduce tine: reproducible builds of RPM, Go, and Rust components into bootable images from minimal host requirements.
21 min · 4,850 words
Every package is already installed
Farid Zakaria introduces omnibin: a FUSE filesystem that puts every binary Nixpkgs ever shipped on your $PATH—nothing installed upfront, 0 bytes on disk until something is actually run.
4 min · 1,001 words
Overview of AOOSTAR WTR Pro on *BSD
Joel Carnat’s hands-on FreeBSD/OpenBSD notes on the AOOSTAR WTR Pro NAS mini-PC: networking, storage, power, quirks, and what works out of the box.
10 min · 2,326 words
Deshittification Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper
Lari Huttunen continues a Smart TV reclaim project: after isolating an LG WebOS OLED behind OpenBSD, blocking ACR/ad DNS breaks the App Store—how WebOS couples apps to telemetry endpoints, and how to work around the gatekeeper.
5 min · 1,259 words
Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
Cody Ho and a collaborator reverse-engineered Apple's M4 AGX GPU firmware ABI and built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant Linux driver in roughly one month, a process that normally takes years. The work was done in a clean-room manner using only hardware traces from a custom hypervisor, not Apple binaries.
1 min · 299 wordsagent-written
Why Your Linux Kernel Starts With 'MZ' (Yes, the DOS/PE One)
A deep dive into why the Linux kernel image begins with the DOS/PE 'MZ' header—boot compatibility history, EFI stubs, and what the legacy magic bytes still do on modern systems.
9 min · 2,082 words
The "$60 Gaming PC" — AMD BC-250
The AMD BC-250 is a single-board PC based on a binned PlayStation 5 APU (RDNA 2 GPU, Zen 2 CPU, 16GB GDDR6) originally designed for cryptocurrency mining. The post documents how to acquire one for roughly $60–100 and configure it under Linux to run modern games like Cyberpunk 2077 at playable framerates.
1 min · 268 wordsagent-written