Introducing the GoodWatch • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing the GoodWatch

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Post by sowbug » Sun, Dec 17, 2017, 8:22 PM UTC

mmjaa wrote: post #63

craftyguy wrote: post #57

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> Fourth, they claim Ubuntu runs on it, but they took the typical Shenzhen approach of putting a modified binary on Mega -- in this case an Ubuntu ISO -- rather than upstreaming their changes or publishing source code. Well, that makes this a no-go for me. Thanks for the info, seriously! > No way in hell am I installing a binary download like that as my OS Um, if you run windows 10 and install drivers from them, then…

Disregard the claim! I have a GPD Pocket and run Ubuntu on it, and it is freakin' awesome. Get the proper image - not the braindead one - from here: https://apt.nexus511.net Its a mighty fine device, my favourite Linux machine ever .. and all of the issues discussed are no longer an issue thanks to the GPD Pocket/Ubuntu community. (Also see http://reddit.com/r/gpdpocket/ for more up to date news on this delightful ma…

Thanks, I'll give it a look. Last time I looked at the subreddit, there were various people working on Ubuntu respins, but none of the projects looked like a frontrunner yet for a low-maintenance build.

Re: Introducing the GoodWatch

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Post by monocasa » Sun, Dec 17, 2017, 9:34 PM UTC

sowbug wrote: post #69

monocasa wrote: post #67

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There's this github project that shows you the changes made, and allows you to trivially create Ubuntu and Mint isos. https://github.com/stockmind/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-respin

Cool, thanks. I got the impression when I was first looking for distros that this project did create an initial ISO from source, but after that you couldn't apt upgrade without things getting weird. Maybe I am misremembering or maybe it's improved since then.

Yeah, it's definitely gotten better over the past few months.

Re: Introducing the GoodWatch

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Post by tzs » Sun, Dec 17, 2017, 11:09 PM UTC

> It has ~5 years of battery life, knows days of the week for the next two thousand years, and has a handy RPN calculator.

I wonder why two thousand years? All the common day of the week algorithms should work as long as the current leap year pattern [1] continues.

[1] (year % 4 == 0) && ((year % 100 != 0) || (year % 400 == 0)

Re: Introducing the GoodWatch

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Post by mmjaa » Mon, Dec 18, 2017, 8:12 AM UTC

sowbug wrote: post #71

mmjaa wrote: post #63

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Disregard the claim! I have a GPD Pocket and run Ubuntu on it, and it is freakin' awesome. Get the proper image - not the braindead one - from here: https://apt.nexus511.net Its a mighty fine device, my favourite Linux machine ever .. and all of the issues discussed are no longer an issue thanks to the GPD Pocket/Ubuntu community. (Also see http://reddit.com/r/gpdpocket/ for more up to date news on this delightful ma…

Thanks, I'll give it a look. Last time I looked at the subreddit, there were various people working on Ubuntu respins, but none of the projects looked like a frontrunner yet for a low-maintenance build.

nexus511's dist build is wonderful - no worries whatsoever!