February, 2015 | Michael J. Hammel

I’ve been working on building custom Debian and Ubuntu distributions for use under VirtualBox. One advantage that both have over Fedora is debootstrap. This tool allows you to create a default rootfs from pre-compiled packages inside a directory. You can then chroot into that directory to install the kernel image, […]

Debian/Ubuntu debootstrap images for VirtualBox

Fri February 27, 2015 in Fedora / Linux / Software Development / Ubuntu / virtualization tagged bootloader / Chroot / debian / debootstrap / Dpkg / Fedora / grub / kernel / kernel modules / kvm / Linux / qemu / raw disk image / ubuntu / VirtualBox / Xen

I’ve been working on PiBox now for a couple of years. The immediate goal is a consumer-oriented device for video playback while not connected to the Internet. In other words, play movies while camping. I have longer term goals for it, but that’s where the project is aimed currently. At […]

Raspberry Pi: Kodi vs PiBox use case comparison

Fri February 06, 2015 in Hardware / Linux / Movies / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Software Development / XBMC tagged amazon / DVD / hulu / Kodi / Linux-based devices / Media technology / nfs / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Ripping / Subtitle / video playback / wifi / XBMC

Last November I left CEI where I had worked for 8 1/2 years. I had plenty saved up to cover me to the next gig. So out went the resumes into the void and we waited for the holidays to pass to get an idea of how things have changed […]