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lottalinuxlinks.com linux user podcast 64;

Sat, 23 Feb 2008

Podcast 64 from lottalinuxlinks.com.
Topics include:

In today's hastily planned podcast dave has a shorter than expected conversation with gorkon. After that dave just sorta spirals out of control. Listeners beware, dave foolishly neglected to monitor his recording levels and there is a lot of clipped audio in this one. Please forgive him.

Links:

lottalinuxlinks.com linux user podcast 64 ogg vorbis format;

gorkon's little place on the web

lottalinuxlinks the web blog; and

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Fri, 15 Feb 2008

LLL63 addendum part III
Kernel compiling the old fashioned way (or like granny used to do it)

To be safe/cover the bases, make sure that these packages have been installed: kernel-package,build-essential,libncurses5-dev,libqt3-mt-dev,libqt3-headers, and module-assistant.

After downloading and extracting the kernel source tree into your /usr/src/ directory, create a symlink from the newly created directory to /usr/src/linux, then cd to /usr/src/linux/ and issue the following command as root:

make oldconfig

Select the default answers, or Y, N, or M as needs suit.

Next issue the following commands as root:

make dep (I don't think this command is necessary with kernel 2.6.x)

make clean

make bzImage

make modules

make modules_install

make install

You will also need to run this command:

mkinitramfs -o /boot/init-2.6.24.img 2.6.24

where 2.6.24 is the version of the kernel you just compiled.

Edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file to include the new stanza necessary to boot your new kernel.

Note: If you recompile/rebuild a kernel from a kernel source tree directory where you have previously run any of the above commands, you will need to first run a make mrproper to tidy up the source tree before proceeding. ymmv

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LLL63 addendum part II
How to compile a kernel downloaded from kernel.org on a debian based distro (or the commands I mentioned in LLL63, or the world's shortest kernel howto):

To be safe/cover the bases, make sure that these packages have been installed: kernel-package,build-essential,libncurses5-dev,libqt3-mt-dev,libqt3-headers, and module-assistant.

make oldconfig

Select the default answers, or Y, N, or M as needs suit.

Next issue this command as root:

make-kpkg --initrd buildpackage kernel_image

Go watch TV and come back in an hour, and then issue this command (again as root):

dpkg -i ../*.deb

Reboot :-D

ymmv

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Podcast 63 shownote addendum
How to Compile a Kernal. :-D

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Thu, 14 Feb 2008

More podcast feed choices
Good news for all (including Dann S. Washko): I have added an additional rss feed while noticably improving the sound quality of the ogg files too. The new feed will only contain no more than the most recent 11 episodes of the podcast.

The lottalinuxlinks.com linux user podcast feeds:

mp3 feed (low quality):http://lottalinuxlinks.com/podcast/rss.xml

ogg feed (high quality):http://lottalinuxlinks.com/podcast/ogg.xml

latest 11 ogg (high quality):http://lottalinuxlinks.com/podcast/latest.xml

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lottalinuxlinks.com linux user podcast 63;

Podcast 63 from lottalinuxlinks.com.
Topics include:

In today's podcast, dave talks about compiling kernels in his car. He also talks about a cool new gui for ffmpeg, called winff, and the perl audio converter too.

Links:

lottalinuxlinks.com linux user podcast 63 ogg vorbis format;

lottalinuxlinks the web blog;

winff;

perl audio converter; and

The Linux Kernel Archives.

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Discuss: 1 comment

Wed, 13 Feb 2008

UCLUG podcast 0008 is out
The Upstate Carolina Linux User Group's podcast 0008 is available for download or subscription.

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Get it now:

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lottalinuxlinks.com linux user podcast 62;

Wed, 06 Feb 2008

Podcast 62 from lottalinuxlinks.com.
Topics include:

In today's podcast, dave talks about his new sparc hardware, net booting linux, improving sound quality, comic book readers, renoise, powertweak, kleansweep, and then he just sorta self-destructs towards the end.

Links:

lottalinuxlinks.com linux user podcast 62 ogg vorbis format;