Tux Machines
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 29, 2023
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=> ↺ Goodbye Balena Etcher AppImage
Balena Etcher flash-drive image-writer is in Appi, the AppImage Installer. I had only tested that it starts, hadn't tested that it actually does write an image file to a drive. But, this post has alerted me that there is a problem with writing:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=92621#p92621
=> ↺ https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=92621#p92621
...they have reported that 'pkexec' is missing. This is a little utility to run something as another user. It puts up a little GUI window asking for a password. 'pkexec' is in the 'polkit' package, but Easy does not use polkit. That's easy to solve, I created /usr/bin/pkexec, a script that is a frontend to 'sudo-sh', which was introduced yesterday: [...]
=> ↺ https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=92621#p92621
=> ↺ Honda Headunit Reverse Engineering, And The Dismal State Of Infotainment Systems
These days the dozen or so ECUs in an average car are joined by an infotainment system of some type, which are typically a large touch screen on the dashboard (the headunit) and possibly a couple of auxiliary units for the rear seats. These infotainment systems run anything from QNX to (Yocto) Linux or more commonly these days some version of Android. As [Eric McDonald] discovered with his 2021 Honda Civic, its headunit runs an archaic Android dating back to roughly 2012.
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