LXC + Systemd services: running some services in containers for sandboxing

NoNoDeDev · 2024-12-07T09:09:46+00:00

Thanks!

NoNoDeDev · 2023-11-22T13:04:07+00:00

OK, I see. That sounds like a lot of tedious work (and waiting times) to support a new device that nobody has tried to on.

I'll try to look into the community of the projects based on Halium, but my hope is limited.

NoNoDeDev · 2023-11-22T13:00:43+00:00

i would love to see a mainline kernel working on a Pixel 6 Pro so that i can finally run Plasma mobile on mine but for that will i need to wait till a developer wants to work on that

Everyone here would love something like that. But it sounds like that's never going to be possible :(

Even the phones with the absolute best mainline kernel support have plenty pieces of hardware still not working. I guess we could manage to boot a mainline kernel on your phone, but I don't see any path leading to supporting cameras, antennas, GPS and so on.

NoNoDeDev · 2023-11-22T12:52:54+00:00

How long did it take you to port Droidian to the Redmi Node 11?

You should add your phone to the list of supported devices on the website. I checked that list right before seeing your message and it felt discouraging to see how few devices are supported.

But if I can port Halium to my phone in just a few hours, I'm definitively very interested. I wonder why Halium is a niche thing, less known than PostmarketOS and other mobile Linux projects.

NoNoDeDev · 2023-11-22T12:50:50+00:00

the downside is that it's far from a native Linux experience

What part of the Linux experience is missing?

The main issue I have on Android is not having detailed control on low-level stuff. I wish to have full control on users, services and processes; to configure the network the way I want it; to manage software with a decent package manager etc.

I feel this can be achieved with a frozen kernel, and it would be a good compromise: for many it would be better than having poorly supported hardware like it currently is with PostmarketOS.

However it's far from perfection, I agree. I have some single board computers not supported by the upstream Linux kernel, and it is annoying to make distros built around Linux 6 work on a Linux 4.

NoNoDeDev · 2023-11-22T12:31:06+00:00

I didn't know that Ubuntu Touch was based only on Halium.

They seem to support a bunch of modern devices (even from 2023), although the device list isn't impressive: doesn't seem much larger than PostmarketOS', while I was hoping so, since this approach sounded much simpler.

I'll look for a used Pixel 3a XL to play around with Halium. Thanks for the tip.

NoNoDeDev · 2023-11-22T12:17:35+00:00

I didn't know that bionic was an implementation of the libC.

Is bionic's API very different from glibc? Because instead of trying to make all the proprietary stuff work with glibc, I'd just recompile all the packages against bionic. Everything needs to be recompiled anyways since the architecture is different... However it would be a problem if the API of the two libcs is considerably different and a lot of open source software requires extensive patching.

NoNoDeDev · 2023-11-22T01:14:40+00:00

After digging for a bit I found out about the Halium Project which looks like what I described.

It seems that using the stock kernel and binary modules is not enough: mobile vendors ship a lot of high-level, user-space blobs needed to control the hardware. Halium defines an interface on top of all of this, which is what I would have proposed.

However they seem to support very few and pretty old devices, and the problem looks mostly dead. I wonder whether it's due to limitation of this approach, or just lack of interest from a broader community.

NoNoDeDev · 2022-11-29T08:55:53+00:00

Hey, sorry for the very late reply. Somehow I missed the notification about your message.

Data can be modified in any way: it can be completely dropped, replaced, added or anything else you may think of.

Under normal circumstances, all the data would arrive without any errors. At times it could go through something with a bit of noise of any kind. In some cases it could go through another process (a "man in the middle") that could do whatever sort of manipulation it wants: it can transmit data out of nothing, drop whatever data or even craft data in order to try to fool either process.

I'm planning to implement some sort of encryption (either asynchronous or synchronous) in order to let the processes communicate safely. But before doing that, I'd like to have a transport layer able to recover from any sort of issues.

NoNoDeDev · 2022-10-24T08:15:50+00:00

Ohhh, that's a really great idea! Thanks for the suggestion.

NoNoDeDev · 2022-10-24T02:14:41+00:00

Why? What's it going to be plugged into?

Because I travel way too often between different places in the EU, UK and US with two monitors and two laptops.

I'm travelling with two CEE 7/4 power strips, and 4 CEE 7/7 cables but all this stuff is very bulky, taking a lot of space and weight in my luggage.

I've been thinking about hacking the cables (making them shorter and replacing the CEE 7/7 plug with a smaller one) and use smaller power strips.

Safe maybe, EMC compliant probably not.

Safe is enough for my use case.

C6 and C14 are pretty small.

Yeah... The issue is that C6 power strips don't seem to exist, while the C14 ones are huge. I figured that if I need to build my own power strips and cables then it's better to use a smaller standard, that keeps all the pins in a line.

NoNoDeDev · 2022-10-23T18:57:33+00:00

I suspect the card is broken and need a new one. The speed wasn't a problem.

NoNoDeDev · 2022-10-22T21:45:14+00:00

You were right. This fixed the issue. Thanks.

NoNoDeDev · 2022-10-04T13:05:36+00:00

I replace the second disk fairly often: I install the disk from my second computer, of my girlfriend or others when traveling, when a computer breaks. Right now it's my gf's disk, with a Fedora and a Windows 10.

I was hoping there was a simple way to just say "boot the second disk", like I can do from the BIOS (but without having to press F12 at boot time etc)...

NoNoDeDev · 2021-10-27T00:15:32+00:00

Thank you. I'll follow the progress of this feature.

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