Technology with a focus on Open Source
The Raspberry Pi is an incredibly popular device that has a well deserved fame for its affordability, versatility, possibilities and vibrant community. It is easy to find fan projects and publications praising it, but most people are not aware of its weak points until they suffer them and come across the information on the forums. …
The latest release of NextCloudPi is out! This release brings the latest major version of Nextcloud, as well as a big rework of the internals, big enough to jump to version 1.0! Most of this is invisible work but will allow NextCloudPi to keep improving the user experience. The old design couldn’t handle more advanced …
The latest release of NextCloudPi is out! This release brings the latest major version of Nextcloud, as well as more platforms and tools for monitoring our hard drive health. As usual this release includes many small fixes and improvements, noticeably a new faster version of btrfs-sync. We are still looking for people to help us …
This post is a review of the different options that we have when deciding on our backup strategy. As more features have appeared over time, this information has become scattered around this blog, so it is nice to have a review in a single article. It goes without saying that we need to backup our …
The latest release of NextCloudPi is out! This release brings the latest major version of Nextcloud, as well as an important performance boost due to the jump to PHP7.2. Remember that we are looking at people to help us support more boards. If you own a BananaPi, OrangePi, Pine64 or any other not yet supported …
Before I begin, I would like to thank “nacho” and the contributors to NextCloudPi!!!
We already covered how Linux executes files and how to run ARM binaries “natively” in Linux in the last two posts. We ended up running a whole ARM root filesystem transparently in a chroot jail using QEMU user mode and binfmt_misc support. Now that we have that covered, nothing prevents us from applying that to …
What? you can do that in Linux? It turns out you can! First, let’s see it in action. Here I retrieve a binary from my Raspberry Pi which is an ARM binary and execute it in my x86_64 machine transparently. If you try to do this… it won’t work right away.
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The latest release of NextCloudPi is out! The key improvement is bringing fully automating Nextcloud updates. This was the last piece of the puzzle, and finally we can leave the board just sitting there and everything will be automatically be kept up to date: Debian packages, Nextcloud and NextCloudPi itself. Also, work has been focused …
These instructions are for Raspberry Pi 2 – 3 B+. Feel free to re-design for your device! After discovering the NextcloudPi project back on the release of Version 12, I realized one thing was still missing… a case! Thankfully I have a background working with vector graphics and a lasercutter at my local hackerspace, Noisebridge. …