VirtualBox on a CRUX host
Posted: 2024-05-12 Filed under: system | Tags: CRUX, virtualbox Leave a commentFor virtualization, I use VirtualBox, installed from the All distributions binary package provided by upstream (*.run). Since CRUX is a bit of an esoteric distribution, startup stuff and building of kernel modules does not happen automatically. Therefore, calling certain scripts should be done manually.
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Make Grub find a Windows partition
Posted: 2024-04-07 Filed under: system | Tags: boot, efi, grub, UEFI, windows Leave a commentI have Linux installed on sda and Windows 10 installed on sdb. Both disks are EFI and I want to make Grub add Windows to the boot menu.
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Traditional names of network devices
Posted: 2024-02-04 Filed under: network, system | Tags: adapter, CRUX, eth0, grub, lilo, network, wlan0 Leave a commentMoving from Slackware to CRUX, I noticed that my network devices have weird names, such as enp4s0. What happened to the good old eth0? It did not bother me much at first, but… For example, I have a firewall script, where I specify adapter names, and it is a bit annoying to always check for the specific one, depending on the computer I am working on.
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r4-modules repo added to portdb
Posted: 2024-01-21 Filed under: ports, system | Tags: cran2crux, CRUX, modules, portdb, ports, R, r-modules, r4-modules Leave a commentMy collection of ports building R modules has been just added to the portdb section of CRUX, as r4-modules. At the moment, there are 374 entries, mostly bioinformatics-oriented. The ports themselves are hosted at my crux-ports GitHub.
I have been using the repo for about a month, but thought that others may benefit from it, too. So, here it is.
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