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Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by anthk »

Good. On games, I'd add a SDL-less build of Frotz with some z-machine libre games such as Dungeon or All Things Devour.

Also, a cgames package for Void would be nice, csokoban it's perfect to play on slow recovering.

I'll add ffmpeg, sox and visidata too as they are the perfect suite for media and office suite files. MPV and Mplayer work on the framebuffer, too.

Optional dependencies for visidata: https://www.visidata.org/docs/formats/

Finally another must have tool: gnuplot and calc. Because often you need to do some graphs and calculations. And maybe bitlbee listening on localhost, with libpurple support. IM and IRC'ing for support it's unvaluable.

Oh, a quick and dirty ebook reader, with unzip and lynx:

    #/bin/sh
    unzip -qcp "$1" "*ml" "*.htm"   | lynx -force-html -dump -stdin -nolist | less -r  -M +Gg

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by fho »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #4
mlang23 wrote: post #2

Project name looks like it was inspired by Grml :-)

Yeah first thing I thought. It also sounds like it overlaps in functionality. I've used GRML for rescue stuff for many years. But this might be interesting too. One thing I'd love to have is to preload since defaults into the image. Like launching an SSH Daemon with a given private key so I can fix a system without a monitor

Iirc there was a time where grml just was not up to date anymore? I somewhat remember that it did not support btrfs at some point.

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by GekkePrutser »

fho wrote: post #12
GekkePrutser wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah first thing I thought. It also sounds like it overlaps in functionality. I've used GRML for rescue stuff for many years. But this might be interesting too. One thing I'd love to have is to preload since defaults into the image. Like launching an SSH Daemon with a given private key so I can fix a system without a monitor

Iirc there was a time where grml just was not up to date anymore? I somewhat remember that it did not support btrfs at some point.

Could be, I never used btrfs.

I do use ZFS heavily though, so that would definitely be a point for me. I see Hrmpf does have it so I'll check it out.

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by boomboomsubban »

mnd999 wrote: post #6
CameronNemo wrote: post #3

FYI this ships with zfs modules precompiled, if you're into that sort of thing. https://github.com/leahneukirchen/hrmpf/commit/dcc35b75676f3...

That is really useful. Having to build an archiso every time I accidentally pacman to a kernel version that breaks zfs is annoying. I’ve only done it twice but still.

Why not just build once and then keep the USB for emergencies?

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by lproven »

smcl wrote: post #8
eloeffler wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The percentage of consonants in this word induces serious amounts of Angstschweiß :)

[laughs in Czech] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk edit: wonder if we have any Welsh speakers here actually

"Blb vlk pln žbrnd zdrhl hrd z mlh Brd skrz vrch Smrk v čtvrť srn Krč."

7 years of study and this language still terrifies me.

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by rob74 »

lproven wrote: post #17
smcl wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[laughs in Czech] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk edit: wonder if we have any Welsh speakers here actually

"Blb vlk pln žbrnd zdrhl hrd z mlh Brd skrz vrch Smrk v čtvrť srn Krč." 7 years of study and this language still terrifies me.

Ok... and here I was thinking that a single word without vowels in Slovenian (Trst, the Slovenian name of the Italian city Trieste) was remarkable. Guess I have to reconsider that...

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by lproven »

rob74 wrote: post #18
lproven wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Blb vlk pln žbrnd zdrhl hrd z mlh Brd skrz vrch Smrk v čtvrť srn Krč." 7 years of study and this language still terrifies me.

Ok... and here I was thinking that a single word without vowels in Slovenian (Trst, the Slovenian name of the Italian city Trieste) was remarkable. Guess I have to reconsider that...

Yugoslavia was famed for its critical vowel shortage:

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-v...

... However, speaking as a resident of Czechia, it's worse here.

Consider that quote. The word "čtvrť" means _quarter_, as in Latin Quarter or Arab Quarter. It differs from the word "čtvrt" (meaning a quarter of a pizza, say) by the half a diacritic on the final letter T: ť. That diacritic modifies the following vowel — for example the famous shoe company is not Bata (bar-ta) but Baťa (bar-tya).

In "čtvrť" the háček modifies the following vowel that isn't there and thus changes the meaning of the word.

Czech is czallenging.

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by smcl »

lproven wrote: post #17
smcl wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[laughs in Czech] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk edit: wonder if we have any Welsh speakers here actually

"Blb vlk pln žbrnd zdrhl hrd z mlh Brd skrz vrch Smrk v čtvrť srn Krč." 7 years of study and this language still terrifies me.

Yeah it's a bit of a tongue twister if you have to say this out loud. I'm just continually encountering words I've never heard and either being completely lost or trying to relate them to something I already know. Like in that sentence:

- don't know what a "žbrnd" is

- "zdrhl" is the l-participle of some verb that I don't know

- "hrd" is not something I've seen (is it related to "hrdina" - hero - maybe?)

- "Brd" no idea

- "srn" might be like "srnec" (kind of deer) but if I heard it in a sentence I wouldn't make that connection

- "Krč" - I've seen "Krčma" as a form of pub, but idk if this word refers to that

These guesses I made are possibly miles off the mark :D

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