+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_got_everything_you_need_to_program_Micro_bit.html">Debian now got everything you need to program Micro:bit</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 22nd January 2019
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>I am amazed and very pleased to discover that since a few days ago,
+everything you need to program the <a href="https://microbit.org/">BBC
+micro:bit</a> is available from the Debian archive. All this is
+thanks to the hard work of Nick Morrott and the Debian python
+packaging team. The micro:bit project recommend the mu-editor to
+program the microcomputer, as this editor will take care of all the
+machinery required to injekt/flash micropython alongside the program
+into the micro:bit, as long as the pieces are available.</p>
+
+<p>There are three main pieces involved. The first to enter Debian
+was
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-uflash">python-uflash</a>,
+which was accepted into the archive 2019-01-12. The next one was
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mu-editor">mu-editor</a>, which
+showed up 2019-01-13. The final and hardest part to to into the
+archive was
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firmware-microbit-micropython">firmware-microbit-micropython</a>,
+which needed to get its build system and dependencies into Debian
+before it was accepted 2019-01-20. The last one is already in Debian
+Unstable and should enter Debian Testing / Buster in three days. This
+all allow any user of the micro:bit to get going by simply running
+'apt install mu-editor' when using Testing or Unstable, and once
+Buster is released as stable, all the users of Debian stable will be
+catered for.</p>
+
+<p>As a minor final touch, I added rules to
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/isenkram">the isenkram
+package</a> for recognizing micro:bit and recommend the mu-editor
+package. This make sure any user of the isenkram desktop daemon will
+get a popup suggesting to install mu-editor then the USB cable from
+the micro:bit is inserted for the first time.</p>
+
+<p>This should make it easier to have fun.</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/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/CasparCG_Server_for_TV_broadcast_playout_in_Debian.html">CasparCG Server for TV broadcast playout in Debian</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 15th January 2019
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>The layered video playout server created by Sveriges Television,
+<a href="https://casparcg.com/">CasparCG Server</a>, entered Debian
+today. This completes many months of work to get the source ready to
+go into Debian. The first upload to the Debian NEW queue happened a
+month ago, but the work upstream to prepare it for Debian started more
+than two and a half month ago. So far
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/casparcg-server">the
+casparcg-server package</a> is only available for amd64, but I hope
+this can be improved. The package is in contrib because it depend on
+the <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fdk-aac">non-free fdk-aac
+library</a>. The Debian package lack support for streaming web pages
+because Debian is missing CEF, Chromium Embedded Framework. CEF is
+wanted by several packages in Debian. But because the Chromium source
+is <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/893448">not available as a build
+dependency</a>, it is not yet possible to upload CEF to Debian. I
+hope this will change in the future.</p>
+
+<p>The reason I got involved is that
+<a href="https://frikanalen.no/">the Norwegian open channel
+Frikanalen</a> is starting to use CasparCG for our HD playout, and I
+would like to have all the free software tools we use to run the TV
+channel available as packages from the Debian project. The last
+remaining piece in the puzzle is Open Broadcast Encoder, but it depend
+on quite a lot of patched libraries which would have to be included in
+Debian first.</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/frikanalen">frikanalen</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
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