There have been a few positive, blog-worthy notes happening in my life the past few months. The first is that by the grace of God, I found actual full-time employment working with a wonderful team …| The Cat Fox Life
While writing a project for Wilcox Tech that we hope to open source soon, I had reason to test the content (or, in some cases, presence) of tags in a Rails app. I came across a good s…| The Cat Fox Life
Hello, and welcome back to FOSS Fridays! One of the final preparations for the release of Adélie Linux 1.0-beta6 has been updating the graphical stack to support Wayland and the latest advancements…| The Cat Fox Life
After a long and somewhat unreasonable delay, I have returned to bringing the Adélie Linux kernel package up to date with the latest LTS release, which at the time of this writing is 6.6.58. Presen…| The Cat Fox Life
One of my best friends, Horst, is working on “bootstrapping” Java in the Adélie Linux distribution. This means we will be able to build the Java runtime entirely from source, not relying on binaries from Oracle or others – which means we can certify and trust that our Java is free from any third-party code. … Continue reading "A funny thing happened on the way to the Java bootstrap…"| The Cat Fox Life
I have completed an initial new port of systemd to musl. This patch set does not share much in common with the existing OpenEmbedded patchset. I wanted to make a fully updated patch series targetin…| The Cat Fox Life
I have a Haskell-era MSI B85-G41 PC Mate motherboard and I decided to use it as a “mid-tier”-ish gaming PC and also as a TV set top box. I already had a WinTV-DCR-2650 dual-tuner CableCARD USB device, and I was gifted a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 for the project. The board had 32 GB RAM … Continue reading "Dual-booting Windows 11 and Windows 7 on a Haswell"| The Cat Fox Life
As part of my work to set up infrastructure for a few projects that I hope to launch with some mates in the coming months, I needed to set up a KVM virthost using Gentoo. I decided to write up the …| The Cat Fox Life
I’ve just repaired the hinge on my Indigo Clamshell. While I was in there, I also replaced the aging hard disk with a SD card adaptor. I wanted to write down a few notes about the process, both for posterity and so that others can benefit from my experience. The standoffs for the hard disk … Continue reading "Notes about the iBook G3 Clamshell"| The Cat Fox Life
Welcome back to FOSS Fridays! This week, I’m covering a real pickle. I’m acutely aware of the flames this blog post will inspire, but I feel it is important to write nevertheless. I volunteer my ti…| The Cat Fox Life