+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Run_your_industrial_metal_working_machine_using_Debian_.html">Run your industrial metal working machine using Debian?</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 2nd March 2022</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>After many months of hard work by the good people involved in
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxCNC">LinuxCNC</a>, the
+system was accepted Sunday
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linuxcnc">into Debian</a>.
+Once it was available from Debian, I was surprised to discover from
+<a href="https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=linuxcnc">its
+popularity-contest numbers</a> that people have been reporting its use
+since 2012. <a href="http://linuxcnc.org/">Its project site</a> might
+be a good place to check out, but sadly is not working when visiting
+via Tor.</p>
+
+<p>But what is LinuxCNC, you are probably wondering? Perhaps a
+Wikipedia quote is in place?</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+"LinuxCNC is a software system for numerical control of
+machines such as milling machines, lathes, plasma cutters, routers,
+cutting machines, robots and hexapods. It can control up to 9 axes or
+joints of a CNC machine using G-code (RS-274NGC) as input. It has
+several GUIs suited to specific kinds of usage (touch screen,
+interactive development)."
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>It can even control 3D printers. And even though the Wikipedia
+page indicate that it can only work with hard real time kernel
+features, it can also work with the user space soft real time features
+provided by the Debian kernel.
+<a href="https://github.com/linuxcnc/linuxcnc">The source code</a> is
+available from Github. The last few months I've been involved in the
+translation setup for the program and documentation. Translators are
+most welcome to
+<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/linuxcnc/">join the
+effort</a> using Weblate.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Updated_vlc_bittorrent_plugin_in_Debian__version_2_14_.html">Updated vlc bittorrent plugin in Debian (version 2.14)</a></div>
<div class="date">14th February 2022</div>
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_bittorrent_plugin_in_Bullseye__saved_by_the_bell_.html">VLC bittorrent plugin in Bullseye, saved by the bell?</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 1st May 2021</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Yesterday morning I got a warning call from the Debian quality
-control system that
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent">the VLC
-bittorrent plugin</a> was due to be removed because of a release
-critical bug in one of its dependencies. As you might remember, this
-plugin make VLC able to stream videos directly from a bittorrent
-source using both torrent files and magnet links, similar to using a
-HTTP source. I believe such protocol support is a vital feature in
-VLC, allowing efficient streaming from sources such at the almost 7
-million movies in <a href="https://archive.org/">the Internet
-Archive</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The dependency was the unmaintained
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libtorrent-rasterbar">libtorrent-rasterbar</a>
-package, and <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/987306">the bug in
-question</a> blocked its python library from working properly. As I
-did not want Bullseye to release without bittorrent support in VLC, I
-set out to check out the status, and track down a fix for the problem.
-Luckily the issue had already been identified and fixed upstream,
-providing everything needed. All I needed to do was to fetch the
-Debian git repository, extract and trim the patch from upstream and
-apply it to the Debian package for upload.</p>
-
-<p>The fixed library was uploaded yesterday evening. But that is not
-enough to get it into Bullseye, as Debian is currently in package
-freeze to prepare for a new next stable release. Only non-critical
-packages with
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/autopkgtest">autopkgtest
-setup</a> included, in other words able to validate automatically that
-the package is working, are allowed to migrate automatically into the
-next release at this stage. And the unmaintained libtorrent-rasterbar
-lack such testing, and thus needed a manual override. I am happy to
-report that such manual override was approved a few minutes ago, thus
-increasing significantly the chance of VLC bittorrent streaming being
-available out of the box also for Debian/Buster users. A bit too
-close shave for my liking, as the Bullseye release is most likely just
-a few days away, and this did feel like the package was saved by the
-bell. I am so glad the warning email showed up in time for me to
-handle the issue, and a big thanks go to the Debian Release team for
-the quick feedback on
-<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-release">#debian-release</a>
-and their <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/987865">swift
-unblocking</a>.</p>
-
-<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
-
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