July 2018 - Dev - Clearlinux.Org

by Sven Hartrumpf

Hi all. Does Clear Linux support running binaries for the x32 ABI? If I look at the following line # CONFIG_X86_X32 is not set in https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/linux-lts/blob/master/config , it seems to be disabled. For many applications, x32 clearly outperforms i386 and x86-64, e.g. (for functional programming): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2015-09/msg00000.html https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/bigloo/2016-12/msg00015.html In the long run, also compiling x32 binaries could be an important performance option for Clear Linux. Ciao Sven

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Hades Canyon, good idea?

by Richard Thornton

Hi All, I have decided to use my Hades Canyon as a Linux graphical workstation. Has anyone tried to install CL on there? I love the CL rolling release! 4.18 is getting close, does it make sense to wait till that gets into CL? Thanks. Richard

1 year, 9 months

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Research survey: Impact of Microsoft Acquisition of GitHub

by Asavaseri Natnaree

Dear Clear Linux contributors, I am Natnaree Asavaseri and currently undertaking a research internship at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. As a part of my research, I am analyzing the impact of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub. I would like to conduct a survey to understand how developers perceive the Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub, especially from contributors to Linux distributions and BSD families. So please consider voicing your opinion by allowing us up to 5 minutes to complete our short survey. https://goo.gl/forms/lbIL5qsinDRQyTaK2 We would like to remind you that participation in this survey is completely voluntary and your identity is hidden for anonymity. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Natnaree Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

1 year, 9 months

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[PATCH clr-bundles] desktop: Add firmware update tooling

by William Douglas

Add packages to support firmware updates. --- bundles/desktop | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/bundles/desktop b/bundles/desktop index 2c3fc5e..3c1d3ce 100644 --- a/bundles/desktop +++ b/bundles/desktop @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ cups cups-filters cups-pk-helper dhcp +fwupd +fwupdate ghostscript gutenprint gnome-online-accounts -- 2.18.0

1 year, 10 months

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[PATCH clr-bundles] python-extras: Add commonly used test and lint helpers

by William Douglas

Adding more pytest and flake8 modules to python-extras as these are commonly used within the ecosystem. --- bundles/python-extras | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/bundles/python-extras b/bundles/python-extras index 72c28cf..253df4b 100644 --- a/bundles/python-extras +++ b/bundles/python-extras @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ boto certifi cxxfilt deap +flake8 +flake8-blind-except +flake8-class-newline +flake8-docstrings glibc-lib-avx2 libgfortran-avx lxml @@ -24,6 +28,9 @@ nose numpy pbr pytest +pytest-cov +pytest-repeat +pytest-rerunfailures python-dateutil python-tappy requests -- 2.18.0

1 year, 10 months

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Nested KVM support

by Christian Bourque

Hi, I'm trying to run Clear Linux in a VM on the Proxmox hypervisor (KVM). For that I've used the Clear Linux KVM image and I managed to make it run successfully. But on the first boot I noticed this kernel message on the console: "kvm: no hardware support". I was a bit stumped since everything seemed to be working correctly. So I started digging around and I found this page on the Clear Linux web site to check processor compatibility: https://clearlinux.org/documentation/clear-linux/get-started/compatibilit... Here's the output of the script (executed on the host where the hypervisor is running): root@host:~/tmp# ./clear-linux-check-config.sh host Checking if host is capable of running Clear Linux* OS for Intel® Architecture SUCCESS: 64-bit CPU (lm) SUCCESS: Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (ssse3) SUCCESS: Streaming SIMD Extensions v4.1 (sse4_1) SUCCESS: Streaming SIMD Extensions v4.2 (sse4_2) SUCCESS: Advanced Encryption Standard instruction set (aes) SUCCESS: Carry-less Multiplication extensions (pclmulqdq) SUCCESS: EFI firmware root@host:~/tmp# ./clear-linux-check-config.sh container Checking if host is capable of running Clear Linux* OS for Intel® Architecture in a container SUCCESS: 64-bit CPU (lm) SUCCESS: Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (ssse3) SUCCESS: Streaming SIMD Extensions v4.1 (sse4_1) SUCCESS: Streaming SIMD Extensions v4.2 (sse4_2) SUCCESS: Advanced Encryption Standard instruction set (aes) SUCCESS: Carry-less Multiplication extensions (pclmulqdq) SUCCESS: Virtualisation support (vmx) SUCCESS: Kernel module kvm SUCCESS: Kernel module kvm_intel FAIL: Nested KVM support It seems that nested virtualization is required to run Clear Linux inside a container (VM?)! Could somebody explain why? What kinds of limitations can I expect if hardware-assisted virtualization isn't exposed to the guest os? Thanks Christian

1 year, 10 months

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[PATCH clr-bundles 1/1] Add KeePassXC as a pundle

by Thiago Macieira

KeePassXC is the KeePass Cross-platform Community tool, a fork of KeePassX, the cross-platform version of the original Windows KeePass. Signed-off-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira(a)intel.com> --- packages | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/packages b/packages index 6ce392f..e6f3176 100644 --- a/packages +++ b/packages @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ ipvsadm irssi joe jq +keepassxc keychain libva-utils linux-dev -- 2.18.0

1 year, 10 months

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[PATCH clr-bundles] os-clr-on-clr: Add clr-pyversion-strip

by William Douglas

Utility to be used by autospec to help remove version requirements for certain python packages without needing to add patches. --- bundles/os-clr-on-clr | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/bundles/os-clr-on-clr b/bundles/os-clr-on-clr index df5e0e1..4741643 100644 --- a/bundles/os-clr-on-clr +++ b/bundles/os-clr-on-clr @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ include(sysadmin-basic-dev) Mako-python abireport cabextract +clr-pyversion-strip configobj cve-check-tool diffoscope -- 2.18.0

1 year, 10 months

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[PATCH clr-bundles] os-utils-gui: Remove websockify

by William Douglas

websockify was added to os-utils-gui as a temporary measure for enabling vnc which is now better supported in the distro so remove the temporary work-around. --- bundles/os-utils-gui | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/bundles/os-utils-gui b/bundles/os-utils-gui index d5120b5..3c8432d 100644 --- a/bundles/os-utils-gui +++ b/bundles/os-utils-gui @@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ thunderbird tigervnc vim-data virt-viewer -websockify x11vnc xauth xclip -- 2.18.0

1 year, 10 months

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Re: [Clr-dev] System freezes on mouse events on Firefox window

by Dinh, Kien T

Looks like the same bug has been reported here. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901928 Have the patches been merged? Thanks, Kien On 2018/07/23 16:54, "Dev on behalf of Dinh, Kien T" <dev-bounces(a)lists.clearlinux.org on behalf of kien.t.dinh(a)intel.com> wrote: [Title] System freezes on mouse events on Firefox window [Severity] Major [System] * Hardware: NUC7i7BNH * OS: ClearLinux v23840 * Kernel: kernel-org.clearlinux.native.4.17-8-593 * Installed bundled: software-defined-cockpit, firefox, desktop, os-clr-on-clr * Configuration: the system has been configured to launch with Weston on XWayland: * ~/.config/weston.ini [core] xwayland=true * # systemctl enable weston@[username] [Description] After the installation, the system has been configured to start with Weston UI on xwayland on boot. Firefox can be launched from a weston terminal. After the firefox window is showed, system will freeze when trying to drag the firefox window with the PC mouse, or click on the address bar for address input. The error didn’t happen with Firefox in GDM environment. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev(a)lists.clearlinux.org https://lists.clearlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev

1 year, 10 months

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