Blogospheric Refraction

The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

Browsing Posts published in December, 2008

Hi all… Well, after a long hiatus, I’m working on new stages for the Gentoo/MIPS port.  These new ones will be based on uClibc, and are a compliment to the existing glibc-based stages.  At the moment, the initial seed environment is still being cross-compiled from my i686 host, and for now I’m focussing on mipsel [...]

Open letter to Minister Stephen Conroy regarding the proposed internet filter. Over the last year, we’ve heard a number of people step up, complaining about this proposal, and what it will mean in terms of freedom-of-speech, and internet speeds.  I also heard a rumour that mentioned the blocking of peer-to-peer traffic. Now, it is very [...]

Hi all… figured I better update everyone on what’s happening on the MIPS front. Kumba has been working on newer kernel ebuilds to support various platforms, specifically IP30, which has been troublesome of late. At present, the best kernel revision to use is still 2.6.23 on Cobalt, Loongson 2E and O2. Another alternative, is to [...]