Author: Stefano Prenna
Tutorial: stream GTK applications and use them in your browser (with GTK+ and Broadway)
A few days ago I’ve (finally) received my first C.H.I.P.. This is the first 9 dollars microcomputer with a 1Gzh R8 ARM CPU, 512Mb of RAM, 4Gb of on-board space and it includes Wireless B/G/N and Bluetooth 4.0. All in all for that price, I have to admit that it’s a good, all purpose machine…
Ubuntu: unable to play DVD
If your Ubuntu installation is not able to play DVDs, here you can see all the steps to enable this feature: from a command line, make sure you install the main libraries: sudo apt-get purge libdvdread4 libdvdcss2 libdvdnav4 ubuntu-restricted-extras sudo apt-get install libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 ubuntu-restricted-extras Finally, in order to be able to read crypted content…
Tutorial: boot Parallella from USB external hard drive (using standard SD image)
I’ve been using my Parallella for a few months now and I’ve already burnt a couple of SD Cards… Therefore I thought that it would be better to load the OS from an USB attached Hard Disk, using the SD Card for the boot process only. In general Linux allows to easily change the root…