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Nristen's (g)log
2021-06-08
the raspberrry pi that was used in the following (g)log was:
cat /proc/cpuinfo ... Hardware : BCM2835 Revision : a02082 ... Model : Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2
A couple weeks ago, I ran across Alpine Linux and I have been very interested in learning more about it because it is one of the most minimal Linux distros I have found. Alpine Linux is frequently used inside docker containers because of its small size.
When I saw how fast it ran, I decided that it might be a good replacement for Raspbian OS Lite on some of my Raspberry Pis.
The default Raspberry Pi install runs from RAM which is exceptionally fast however it doesn't leave a lot of room for experimenting and I wanted a more persistant installation.
Today, I followed the instructions at:
The one change that I needed to make (discovered this from the people at OFTC IRC: #alpline-linux) was replace the "setup-disk" command with:
FORCE_BOOTFS=1 setup-disk -m sys /mnt
I skipped the section, "Tailoring for Remote Access" and everything after that.
I have seen on the gemini mailing list and several gemini capsules that mention Agate as being very fast even on a raspberry pi so I decided to give it a try first.
First, I tried the Agate binary from the agate github release: agate.aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.gz
however the binary did not execute for me.
So, I decided to compile from source. I have never compiled a Rust application before or used Cargo which I believe is a package manager for Rust (someone please correct me if I am wrong).
mkdir projects sudo apk add wget cd projects wget https://github.com/mbrubeck/agate/archive/refs/tags/v3.1.0.tar.gz Connecting to github.com (140.82.113.4:443) Connecting to codeload.github.com (140.82.114.9:443) saving to 'v3.1.0.tar.gz' tar xzf v3.1.0.tar.gz cd agate-3.1.0 sudo apk add cargo cargo-doc cargo build --release
On my Raspberry Pi 3b, the last command, "cargo build" took 26m 55s and resulted in a binary 3.1 MB.
cd target/release sudo cp agage /usr/local/bin
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