Setting up GPU accelerated remote desktop with sound on headless Linux using NoMachine

I have always wanted to setup a remote desktop on my NAS. It feels really cool to have the exact same desktop anywhere. In lab, out side at a caffe, in lecture. But I've never got GPU acceleration working properly. While I can't rely on the puny Cortex-A72 cores to draw the entire desktop (it...

The journey of running Arch Linux as an enterprise production server

So... When my last, recent contract work have reached the deployment phase. We found that our client is the only department in their entire enterprise that runs Windows Servers and Windows Servers only! Yet our code only runs on Linux and FreeBSD (and HaikuOS if you try really hard). We've never expected to have to...

Solving QCA6174 WiFi crashing, high ping, unusable on Linux

One glaring issue I have with my laptop (using a Qualcomm NIC) is the ridiculous high pings while using WiFi. > 400ms for some packets to reach a near by machine and back is totally unacceptable. It makes ssh unusably slow and even mosh on the edge of barely usable. The situation is so bad...

How to run FreeBSD/ARM64 in a VM on an ARM Linux server

COSCUP 2020 just ended and I learned a lot in the two days. One of the many cool things is that I can actually run FreeBSD on my server! So be it inside a VM. Whatever, it is still very cool to have actual UNIX running on ARM. Friends in the FreeBSD community at COSCUP...

HoneyComb LX2K update 1 – after 2 months

It has been 2 month since my last post about my ARM workstation/server. I think it's time for an update for how thing are going and if there's problems. In sort: no. There's not major issus with the board. NXP and SolidRun have done a very good job building it. Performance Without a doubt, the...

Rocking a 16 core ARM workstation for data analysis and NAS – HoneyComb LX2K

I preordered the HoneyComb LX2K workstation board last October and I has finally arrived and I finally got time to build my ARM workstation. The process is challenging and fun! Building of the machine The LX2K is a very capable 16-core ARM workstation board selling at 750$ (550$ when I ordered, early access price). Providing...

Building AMD’s MIOpen on a non ROCm(AMD) system

AMD. Please, please write your build script PROPERLY. It really sucks that I have to hack your code to make it work on other's platform. - and that's when all components used are cross platform. Sorry that I got a bit mad when I'm writing this post. There are too much basic things done wrong....

Introduction to SSHFS – the *best* way do transfer files between your PC and you when you are outside and in emergency

Sometimes when I'm in a conference of in a meeting. I need some files that is on my PC but not on my laptop to run my demo program. There's no way I could run back home or to my lab to grab them. And the only thing I have on my PC running(running Linux)...