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+ Debian now got everything you need to program Micro:bit +
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+ 22nd January 2019 +
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I am amazed and very pleased to discover that since a few days ago, +everything you need to program the BBC +micro:bit 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.

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There are three main pieces involved. The first to enter Debian +was +python-uflash, +which was accepted into the archive 2019-01-12. The next one was +mu-editor, which +showed up 2019-01-13. The final and hardest part to to into the +archive was +firmware-microbit-micropython, +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.

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As a minor final touch, I added rules to +the isenkram +package 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.

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This should make it easier to have fun.

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As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my +activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address +15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.

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+ + + Tags: debian, english, robot. + + +
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+ CasparCG Server for TV broadcast playout in Debian +
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+ 15th January 2019 +
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The layered video playout server created by Sveriges Television, +CasparCG Server, 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 +the +casparcg-server package is only available for amd64, but I hope +this can be improved. The package is in contrib because it depend on +the non-free fdk-aac +library. 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 not available as a build +dependency, it is not yet possible to upload CEF to Debian. I +hope this will change in the future.

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The reason I got involved is that +the Norwegian open channel +Frikanalen 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.

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As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my +activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address +15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.

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+ + + Tags: english, frikanalen, multimedia, video. + + +
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Learn to program with Minetest on Debian @@ -31997,6 +32103,13 @@ be the only one fitting our needs. :/

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