hexdump0815
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2 years ago thanks for your ideas - maybe some comments from my side about them: in general i'm trying to keep the systems rather basic and simple as trying to make it perfect for everyone is impossible anyway ... i tried to add features which (at least in my opinion) really added some benefit for nearly everyone like zstd compressed zswap by default (as it helps with low memory systems and minimizes disk writes while still offering more virtual memory than for instance zram), btrfs with zstd compression (making even a 16gb emmc really useable for a full system with some space left and on top having internal checksumming, i.e. you get notified when your storage starts to die slowly and it will not do so silently) or the tiny load average bar in the top right of the default xfce menubar (it helped me so many times to have an idea if the system is overloded or still has reserves left) ... besides that i would like to try to encourage people to do things like building a kernel, mesa etc. themself and try to provide at least some sketches (with still a lot of room for improvement :) ) about how to do that ... enough foreword - to your points:
- squashfs for snap support - i already tried to add the required options - in case there is something missing i'm more than willing to include any missing minimal set of required options (to https://github.com/hexdump0815/kernel-config-options) to make that work - i think snap and flatpack should be supported out of the box (just as docker already is and kvm should be in this category too where technically possible)
- mali gpu drivers - they are supported for systems where there is no lima/panfrost available (snow and peach chromebooks for instance) and i would prefer to avoid adding more of them than needed (i suffered quite a bit with them, their quality and the required hacks in the past :) ) - vulkan and opencl should come in the near future for panfrost and freedreno (which already has some support) at least - but putting some notes on how to get them running or the kernel modules compiled would be completely fine (some old example from pre panfrost times: https://github.com/hexdump0815/linux-mainline-and-mali-rockchip-rk33xx-kernel/blob/master/readme.rkc-mali-rk3399)
- widivine could be easily handled via some scripts to install/uninstall what is required to /scripts - downside is that (as far as i know and until now) its limited to 32bit arm and requires some chroot hacks etc. on 64bit arm
- the anbox options should be fine if they do not break anything else or compatibility and if they do not compromise security in any way - otherwise some notes on how to get all this work would be preferred (similar approaches might be used for box86, box64 etc.)
so basically there are currently three ways to add things:
- adding them to the base images: only well tested and reliable things which are useful for a lot of users and which will be easy to maintain over time on a variety of systems should go here
- adding scripts for them to /scripts to easily add and cleanly remove them if that is easily possible
- adding notes to the info subdir giving hints or tutorials on how to do more complex or more special things - preferrably in better quality than what i have dumped there so far maybe :)
best wishes - hexdump
BenjaminWegener
i was thinking to test some features not included as of now and maybe create tutorials or scripts to implement them. my wishes are: