2022 / 06 / 04 - Librem to Freedom

Year 2022 News

- I am a hacker, a tinkerer, one who likes to modify things into what I desire. I don't want somebody to do anything for me. I want to do anything for myself. While this does not mean I want to do everything, this does mean that want I want to do, I am the one to do it. In this case, I want to tweak and configure and use my phone as I see fit. Open-source gives me the opportunity to review, vet, and configure my computers as I see fit. Liberty such as this is the air that fills my lungs as I sleep at night, dreaming. -

- When I first discovered I could have a phone that respects my freedom, my privacy, and my liberty, I was ecstatic. I don't have to be weigh down by horrible interfaces, horrible software, and horrible flexibility that other people like or otherwise think is a good idea. I would have the opportunity to tweak and adjust the ideas as I see fit within my own personal tolerances and willingness to put the effort in. -

- I supported several phones over years, such as the OpenMoko Freerunner, an embarrassing failure in the community to the leap forward pioneered by the Unbuntu Aquaris. Many of these phones ultimately failed or faded into the night due to a hostile industry, market, and regulations. The Librem5 from Purism has now stepped up to the plate, learned from the past mistakes, and delivered a phone that, while not complete or ideal, lives up to their standards and has thus far survived numerous, and blatant, hostile industry actions and economic disasters. -

- I finally have my Librem5. I have had to quite painfully, if not patiently, wait for my phone to actually be shipped years late (due to global economic situations). This is my review after having used the phone with respect to the other open-source phones I have used, namely the Pinephone from Pine64. I have discovered good things, bad things, horrible things, and great things about this phone. -

- Continue readingâ¦ + The news for the year 2022 remains available.

2022 / 06 / 04 - Librem to Freedom

2022 / 05 / 06 - Basic Program Documentation

- -

- Update the website, bringing in my initial pass at the documentation for each of the programs provided by the FLL project. Most of this documentation is copied from the help of each program and any improvements or deviations are incidental. -

- While working on the documentation, I discovered and fixed random problems. In particular, the iki_read program in the release candidate has a major regression where it doesn't do anything. This is the result of a very minor mistake in passing the wrong size variable to the file read functions. Essentially, the iki_read program is only processing files of length 0 and as a result never produces any output. This is now fixed upstream and I am even happier with the practice of using release candidates. -

- Continue readingâ¦ -

- -

2022 / 05 / 01 - Website Redesign

- -

- With a stable release of the Featureless Linux Library around the corner and the resuming of development of the Turtle Kevux Distribution, it is now time to refresh the website. -

- The available functionality in the HTML standard has changed a decent amount since this website was last updated. This new design focuses on a very primitive look and feel utilizing a lot of the built in visual tools available to the HTML5 and CSS3 languages. The website is being built in stages, to allow for prioritizing getting information out over getting information looking great. This website even actively uses UTF-8. -

- Continue readingâ¦ -

The license information for this website and relating projects.
Details about source code for this website and relating projects.
Additional links, called webbing, that represent websites that are of potential interest.

diff --git a/news/2022.html b/news/2022.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3cc62c --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2022.html @@ -0,0 +1,317 @@ + + + + Kevux Systems and Software - News - 2022 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

+ Back +

2022 / 12 / 17

+ FLL 0.6.2 Release +

2022 / 10 / 31

+ FLL 0.6.1 Release +

2022 / 07 / 31

+ FLL 0.6.0 Release +

2022 / 07 / 02

+ FLL 0.5.10 Release +

2022 / 06 / 04

+ Librem to Freedom +

2022 / 05 / 16

+ FLL Specifications Added +

2022 / 05 / 06

+ Basic Program Documentation +

2022 / 05 / 01

+ Website Redesign +

+ â¦ + Collapse Menu +

+ +

Year 2022 News

+ +

2022 / 12 / 17 - FLL 0.6.2 Release

+ +

+ The Featureless Linux Library stable version 0.6.2 is released. +

+ This release contains several security and bug fixes. + There are also several improvements to the building and packaging scripts. +

+ Added the following stand_alone programs: +

byte_dump
firewall

+ The flagship program is Featureless Make. + All projects and programs now have a fakefile for building as they should have had. +

+ Problems with the Unicode handling have been identified and fixed. + The FLL and implementing programs like byte_dump and utf8 should now have more accurate handling of Unicode characters. +

+ Check out the project on the FLL release page. +

+ Continue readingâ¦ +

+ +

2022 / 10 / 31 - FLL 0.6.1 Release

+ +

+ The Featureless Linux Library stable version 0.6.1 is released. +

+ Most of the fixes and improvements are centered around the build and test systems. + This release should be more portable and testable. +

+ The BASH alternative ZSH is now supported by several scripts. +

+ Check out the project on the FLL release page. +

+ Continue readingâ¦ +

+ +

2022 / 07 / 31 - FLL 0.6.0 Release

+ +

+ The Featureless Linux Library stable version 0.6.0 is released. +

+ The controller program is a re-interpretation of the Featureless Make program written in a more generalized fashion that is focused on performing a set of tasks. + This is very similar to a system initialize program such as sysvinit. + Support for running as a system initialize replacement is partially complete. + There is currently no way to send messages to the controller program to start and stop anything. + The control program, which is used to communicate to the controller program is also incomplete. + The next FLL development version, the 0.7.0 series, will heavily focused on network protocols. +

+ The utf8 program is a handy tool to convert from UTF-8 characters to their Unicode value or vice-versa. + This can convert entire files. +

+ Featureless Make has some major changes. + The fake program now accepts piped data, which must be a valid fakefile. + There are new Objects available for the build settings and the fakefile. +

+ Check out the project on the FLL release page. +

+ Continue readingâ¦ +

+ +

2022 / 07 / 02 - FLL 0.5.10 Release

+ +

+ The Featureless Linux Library development version 0.5.10 is released. +

+ This release is a release canditate for the stable version 0.6.0. +

+ Unit tests for all level_0 projects now exists (except for f_type which is not planned to ever have unit tests). +

+ Many problems and consistency issue have been identified by the written unit tests and fixed. + The unit tests, however, are neither complete nor thorough. + There are almost no unit tests for level_1, level_2, or level_3 projects. +

+ I noticed that the Unicode processing code is incomplete as of the 0.5.9 release. + The available Unicode processing functions are now complete. + A massive amount of unit tests now exist for testing the Unicode. +

+ Check out the project on the FLL release page. +

+ Continue readingâ¦ +

+ +

2022 / 06 / 04 - Librem to Freedom

+ +

OpenMoko FreeRuner, Ubuntu Aquaris E4.5, Pinephone Postmarket Edition, and Librem5 phones.

+ I am a hacker, a tinkerer, one who likes to modify things into what I desire. I don't want somebody to do anything for me. I want to do anything for myself. While this does not mean I want to do everything, this does mean that want I want to do, I am the one to do it. In this case, I want to tweak and configure and use my phone as I see fit. Open-source gives me the opportunity to review, vet, and configure my computers as I see fit. Liberty such as this is the air that fills my lungs as I sleep at night, dreaming. +

+ When I first discovered I could have a phone that respects my freedom, my privacy, and my liberty, I was ecstatic. I don't have to be weigh down by horrible interfaces, horrible software, and horrible flexibility that other people like or otherwise think is a good idea. I would have the opportunity to tweak and adjust the ideas as I see fit within my own personal tolerances and willingness to put the effort in. +

+ I supported several phones over years, such as the OpenMoko Freerunner, an embarrassing failure in the community to the leap forward pioneered by the Unbuntu Aquaris. Many of these phones ultimately failed or faded into the night due to a hostile industry, market, and regulations. The Librem5 from Purism has now stepped up to the plate, learned from the past mistakes, and delivered a phone that, while not complete or ideal, lives up to their standards and has thus far survived numerous, and blatant, hostile industry actions and economic disasters. +

+ I finally have my Librem5. I have had to quite painfully, if not patiently, wait for my phone to actually be shipped years late (due to global economic situations). This is my review after having used the phone with respect to the other open-source phones I have used, namely the Pinephone from Pine64. I have discovered good things, bad things, horrible things, and great things about this phone. +

+ Continue readingâ¦ +

+ +

2022 / 06 / 04 - Librem to Freedom

+ +

+ Updated the FLL specifications and made them available on the website. +

+ Basic styling is applied to make the specifications reasonably readable on a website. I avoided doing any complicated designs so that I can focus on other tasks (such as making a stable release). I took a shortcut on the example results by using the <pre> tag. +

+ Continue readingâ¦ +

+ +

2022 / 05 / 06 - Basic Program Documentation

+ +

+ Update the website, bringing in my initial pass at the documentation for each of the programs provided by the FLL project. Most of this documentation is copied from the help of each program and any improvements or deviations are incidental. +

+ While working on the documentation, I discovered and fixed random problems. In particular, the iki_read program in the release candidate has a major regression where it doesn't do anything. This is the result of a very minor mistake in passing the wrong size variable to the file read functions. Essentially, the iki_read program is only processing files of length 0 and as a result never produces any output. This is now fixed upstream and I am even happier with the practice of using release candidates. +

+ Continue readingâ¦ +

+ +

2022 / 05 / 01 - Website Redesign

+ +

+ With a stable release of the Featureless Linux Library around the corner and the resuming of development of the Turtle Kevux Distribution, it is now time to refresh the website. +

+ The available functionality in the HTML standard has changed a decent amount since this website was last updated. This new design focuses on a very primitive look and feel utilizing a lot of the built in visual tools available to the HTML5 and CSS3 languages. The website is being built in stages, to allow for prioritizing getting information out over getting information looking great. This website even actively uses UTF-8. +

+ Continue readingâ¦ +

+ + diff --git a/news/2022_05_01-website_redesign.html b/news/2022/2022_05_01-website_redesign.html similarity index 92% rename from news/2022_05_01-website_redesign.html rename to news/2022/2022_05_01-website_redesign.html index 9c62230..e90a9dc 100644 --- a/news/2022_05_01-website_redesign.html +++ b/news/2022/2022_05_01-website_redesign.html @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ News - 2022/05/01 - Website Re-design - + - + @@ -23,10 +23,11 @@ - + + @@ -50,15 +51,15 @@

diff --git a/news/2022_05_06-basic_program_documentation.html b/news/2022/2022_05_06-basic_program_documentation.html similarity index 88% rename from news/2022_05_06-basic_program_documentation.html rename to news/2022/2022_05_06-basic_program_documentation.html index 94a82bb..0d24f5a 100644 --- a/news/2022_05_06-basic_program_documentation.html +++ b/news/2022/2022_05_06-basic_program_documentation.html @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ News - 2022/05/06 - Basic Program Documentation - + - + @@ -23,10 +23,12 @@ - + + + @@ -50,15 +52,15 @@

diff --git a/news/2022_05_16-fll_specifications_added.html b/news/2022/2022_05_16-fll_specifications_added.html similarity index 88% rename from news/2022_05_16-fll_specifications_added.html rename to news/2022/2022_05_16-fll_specifications_added.html index c91a454..8ea90b1 100644 --- a/news/2022_05_16-fll_specifications_added.html +++ b/news/2022/2022_05_16-fll_specifications_added.html @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ News - 2022/05/16 - FLL Specifications Added - + - + @@ -23,10 +23,12 @@ - + + + @@ -50,15 +52,15 @@

diff --git a/news/2022_06_04-librem_to_freedom.html b/news/2022/2022_06_04-librem_to_freedom.html similarity index 96% rename from news/2022_06_04-librem_to_freedom.html rename to news/2022/2022_06_04-librem_to_freedom.html index 3a36962..906a3f6 100644 --- a/news/2022_06_04-librem_to_freedom.html +++ b/news/2022/2022_06_04-librem_to_freedom.html @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ News - 2022/06/04 - Librem to Freedom - + - + @@ -23,10 +23,12 @@ - + + + @@ -50,15 +52,15 @@

@@ -70,7 +72,7 @@

@@ -117,7 +119,7 @@

I received the Librem5 phone, charged it up, and then powered it on. The first thing I encountered was the disk encryption. The default password is easy to guess and I did not have to look up documentation to figure it out. I am already familiar with the interface thanks to having installed it onto the Pinephone. Most of the software looked the same, except for the camera. I will discuss more on the camera program later on in this document.

First things first, I need to change the user name and the encryption keys. I've never bothered with this on the Pinephone and I do not know how different doing this on the Pinephone will be. As for the Librem5 phone, I found changing the user name did not actually change the user name. The problem is that what I call the user name is the system account name. What the Librem5 calls the user name is the displayed account name. Fair enough.

@@ -204,7 +206,7 @@

This deserves its own section separate from the battery. The provided charger seems cool. The charger looks cool. It is horrible, at least for American standard outlets. The flip switch is nice except that it wobbles and the connectors seem a little short. This results in sparks flying out of the socket. This charger is a fire hazard. The best position is with the part that collapsed opposite to gravity and it seems to work. If you accidentally touch or move the cable you can set off sparks and cause the connection to repeatedly disconnect and connect.

@@ -429,7 +431,7 @@

A Librem5 phone lying against a Pinephone.

There are bad things about the Librem5 phone. Things have fallen short. Some are the fault of the company. Some are the fault of the current state of the world. Others are the fault of an industry that does not want to sell to customers willing to pay.

diff --git a/news/2022_07_02-fll_0_5_10_release.html b/news/2022/2022_07_02-fll_0_5_10_release.html similarity index 96% rename from news/2022_07_02-fll_0_5_10_release.html rename to news/2022/2022_07_02-fll_0_5_10_release.html index 4cec295..cce4e37 100644 --- a/news/2022_07_02-fll_0_5_10_release.html +++ b/news/2022/2022_07_02-fll_0_5_10_release.html @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ News - 2022/07/02 - FLL 0.5.10 Release - + - + @@ -23,10 +23,12 @@ - + + + @@ -50,15 +52,15 @@

diff --git a/news/2022_07_31-fll_0_6_0_release.html b/news/2022/2022_07_31-fll_0_6_0_release.html similarity index 97% rename from news/2022_07_31-fll_0_6_0_release.html rename to news/2022/2022_07_31-fll_0_6_0_release.html index 47fa3ac..cf4e534 100644 --- a/news/2022_07_31-fll_0_6_0_release.html +++ b/news/2022/2022_07_31-fll_0_6_0_release.html @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ News - 2022/07/31 - FLL 0.6.0 Release - + - + @@ -23,10 +23,12 @@ - + + + @@ -50,24 +52,24 @@

diff --git a/news/2022_10_31-fll_0_6_1_release.html b/news/2022/2022_10_31-fll_0_6_1_release.html similarity index 94% rename from news/2022_10_31-fll_0_6_1_release.html rename to news/2022/2022_10_31-fll_0_6_1_release.html index a189416..7ff5c9d 100644 --- a/news/2022_10_31-fll_0_6_1_release.html +++ b/news/2022/2022_10_31-fll_0_6_1_release.html @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ News - 2022/10/31 - FLL 0.6.1 Release - + - + @@ -23,10 +23,12 @@ - + + + @@ -50,15 +52,15 @@

diff --git a/news/2022_12_17-fll_0_6_2_release.html b/news/2022/2022_12_17-fll_0_6_2_release.html similarity index 96% rename from news/2022_12_17-fll_0_6_2_release.html rename to news/2022/2022_12_17-fll_0_6_2_release.html index a7ba1fb..8d1feed 100644 --- a/news/2022_12_17-fll_0_6_2_release.html +++ b/news/2022/2022_12_17-fll_0_6_2_release.html @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ News - 2022/12/17 - FLL 0.6.2 Release - + - + @@ -23,10 +23,11 @@ - + + @@ -50,15 +51,15 @@

diff --git a/news/2023.html b/news/2023.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..679f2dd --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2023.html @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ + + + + Kevux Systems and Software - News - 2023 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

+ +

Year 2023 News

+ +

2023 / 01 / 14 - FLL 0.6.3 Release

+ +

+ The Featureless Linux Library stable version 0.6.3 is released. +

+ This release contains breaking changes in the Featureless Make program to address functionality that is missing but should, if not must, be available. + This primarily adds documentation and fixes a small number of bugs found. +

+ Added the following stand alone programs: +

fss_status_code
status_code

+ There are now man pages for all of the programs. + These are manually crafted. +

+ The Featureless Make program has two new features that are important enough to break the featureless concept as an exception to the rule. +

+ The Featureless Make program must be able to install settings files and documentation files. + The documentation directory now exists. + This is similar to the documents directory but is entirely focused on documentation that is installed onto the system. + The documents directory might be synonymous with the standard share directory and the documentation directory might be synonymous with the share/man or share/docs directories. +

+ The FLL install scripts is also updated to handle the installation of the settings and documentation files. +

+ The Feeatureless Make program now supports the ability to specify a named section on the command line to be able to reasonably act as an alternative to GNU Make. + It is now possible to create an install section. + The user could then run fake install in a similar manner to how make install works. + The core reserved words are never run in this way. + These core reserved words are build, clean, make, and skeleton. +

+ Check out the project on the FLL release page. +

+ Continue readingâ¦ +

+ + diff --git a/news/2023/2023_01_14-fll_0_6_3_release.html b/news/2023/2023_01_14-fll_0_6_3_release.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef65acb --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2023/2023_01_14-fll_0_6_3_release.html @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ + + + + News - 2023/01/14 - FLL 0.6.3 Release + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

+ +

2023 / 01 / 14 - FLL 0.6.3 Release

+ +

+ The Featureless Linux Library stable version 0.6.3 is released. +

+ Added the following stand alone programs: +

fss_status_code
status_code

+ There are now man pages for all of the programs. + These are manually crafted. +

+ The Featureless Make program has two new features that are important enough to break the featureless concept as an exception to the rule. +

+ The FLL install scripts is also updated to handle the installation of the settings and documentation files. +

+ The following are changes since the 0.6.2 stable release. +

+ Security Fixes: +

Control: Check if 'main' is NULL.
Controller: Check if 'main' is NULL.

+ Features: +

FLL: Add support for installing documentation to the install.sh script.
Featureless Make: Support passing a fakefile Section name to the main program.
Featureless Make: Add missing documentation handling functionality to Featureless Make.

+ Bug Fixes: +

FLL: Several problems with the wrapping define macros, unused private functions, non-existent functions, and fix dependency.
FLL: The f_int_128_t is using incorrect size.
FLL: Fix wrapping define macros for several functions across different projects.
FLL: The type macros in type.h are missing 'f_' or have spurious '_type' in the name.
FLL: Incorrect define macros for private functions in f_file.
FLL: Incorrect macro definition _di_pthread_support_ vs _di_thread_support_.
FLL: The f_signal unit tests after significant change.
FLL: The signal is not properly closing.
Featureless Make: Not defaulting to top-level fakefile when data/build/ does not exist.
FSS Status Code: Incorrectly string length causes inability to match string in fss_status_code.
UTF8: The mode clang is missing from the UTF8 stand alone build settings.

+ Refactors: +

None.

+ Updates: +

FLL: The disable header files.
FLL: Use more proper copyright communication.
FLL: Restructure settings now the install.sh is installing them.
FLL: Improve logic and design of install.sh script.
FLL: Add explicit note about copyrights belonging to Kevin Day and the year 2023.
FLL: De-couple the build settings data file from the install.sh script.
FLL: Be more thorough in the f_file unit test.
FLL: Code documentation is missing the function fl_conversion_dynamic_partial_to_unsigned_detect().
FLL: Fix license in documentation.
FLL: Clarify wording in specifications.
FSS Status Code: Add stand alone fss_status_code build.
FSS Status Code: Add man page documentation for fss_status_code.
FSS Status Code: should have a fakefile.
IKI Read: Add man page documentation for iki_read.
IKI Read: Improve IKI Read help documentation.
IKI Write: Add man page documentation for iki_write.
IKI Write: Improve IKI Write help documentation.
Status Code: Add stand alone status_code build.
Status Code: Add man page documentation for status_code.
UTF8: Add man pages for utf8 program.
Multiple Programs: The stand alone programs configuration.
Multiple Programs: Documentation and build settings, adding remaining man pages for programs.
Multiple Programs: Minor fixes regarding structure and output relating to help.
Multiple Programs: Add more detailed documentation to fss_status_code and status_code.

+ Check out the project on the FLL release page. +

+ The project is built like a tool chest. + Individuals who are unfamiliar with the project should have an easier time trying out the pre-packaged monolithic sources. + These programs, by default, are designed to build against a library built using the monolithic source tree. +

+ The stand alone sources for the several programs can be found pre-packaged at Sourceforge. +

+ Kevin Day +

+ + diff --git a/sources.html b/sources.html index affa2e4..064276c 100644 --- a/sources.html +++ b/sources.html @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@

Primary Source: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fll/

Backup Source 1: https://github.com/thekevinday/fll/

Backup Source 2: https://gitlab.com/kevuxer/fll/

Backup Source 3: https://codeberg.org/kevuxer/fll

@@ -171,6 +172,7 @@