Megapixels

A few small fixes have come in following the alpha release of Megapixels 2.0, one important one that fixes a memory leak in the AAA code. Slowly and steadily this is all moving towards an alpha2 release, maybe a beta release if everything runs smoothly.

BodgeOS

  • Patched abuild and apk to store the relative position of the APKBUILD in the aports repository in the package metadata so it can be shown on https://pkgs.bodgeos.org, not all packages have been rebuild yet though so many are missing this extra metadata.
  • Packaged everything up to Firefox and got everything working in Sway. This required bringing up a few compiler runtimes like rust, a bit extra llvm stuff and more mesa things.
  • Packaged a series of convencience tools for Sway like Wofi.
  • Did initial bringup of BodgeOS for aarch64 using the LX2K machine.

FOSDEM

This month was the lead-up to getting everything finished for the FOSDEM event in Brussels. All the hardware ended up getting built in time and there have been no major issues during the livestreaming of the whole event. It has been amazing to see all the pieces of hardware and software I've been working on the last year come together and produce a functional and stable livestreaming solution.

Last patches to the software were done on the Friday a few hours before the start of FOSDEM which is a small fix to reduce the amount of fan noise coming from the boxes, this still needs a few improvements as you might've heard while being in one of the rooms.

This year I also gave my first talk! It will be online soon-ish at https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6832-fosdem-videobox-2025/

Other projects

  • Fixed a few small issues in miniseries, mainly to better visualize the data coming in without connecting it to a Grafana instance.
  • Released version 6 of lsplug, This includes a few fixes that have been merged a while back for better device identification, it also fixes a crash when the hwdata package is not installed.
  • A new release was made for bare-py, the Python implementation of the BARE packing format. The main improvements are the test suite.

Blog

  • Released the 4th part of the BodgeOS series, going into building Firefox and making the initial aarch64 port of the distribution.