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Shout out to Linux/FOSS maintainers (lemmy.ca)
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Many thanks to all those that maintain FOSS. i had setup a pi4 running 32 bit Debian Buster years ago (pandemic days) with OpenMediaVault 5. With the OMV docker and portainer plugin I had various dockers running, but found some dockerhub images weren't supporting 32bit. I had thought ubout updating to 64 bit install but thought I might have headaches, so just blocked the pi from accessing the internet and sidelined the update. Since it is the holidays I figured I would tackle an update.

Scope:

  • update to 64 bit
  • move from Buster to Bullseye
  • move from OMV5 to OMV6
  • fix everything that failed including docker.

Step 1 add "arm_64bit=1" in the config.txt file of /boot and reboot. Took a while to boot with lots of drive activity but 64 kernel worked perfectly.

Step 2: run sudo omv-release-upgrade

That is it. Two commands and everything updated perfectly. Nothing to fix.

To me that is an amazing testament to the work put in by everyone for Linux kernel, the OS, OMV devs, and Applications maintainers. Amazing.

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[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The FOSS dev heroes are the greatest among us.

[–] logging_strict@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 days ago

and they are all on mastodon

a fans motivation is normally to gain access to heroes rather than hide far far away from them on lemmy

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Big agree. If you're reading this and could spare a couple bucks for some of the projects you use most often, maybe think about donating 😊

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 9 points 5 days ago

Yeah agreed. I know everyone has different issues, but I do think there's a presumption that because you don't have to pay anything then that means you just don't pay...

Please contribute however you can people 👍🏻

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This is a good opportunity to remind people that they should donate a bit to some of the open source projects which they find helpful or important. Liberapay is a nice platform for doing so.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Agreed, Although I did keep asking LiberaPay devs to add a One-time payment option as well to one-up Patreon

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 15 points 5 days ago

Many thanks to all those that maintain FOSS.

Amazing.

+1. That's amazing to see people working together like that in order to develop and maintain a fully working set of tools for anyone to freely use.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Remember guys if you can't pay, there are other ways to help

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Like:

  • Report the best you can with as much as details possible a bug and stop asking for special features only YOU want.
  • Help to improve documentation, translation.
  • Be an ambassador and spread the word.
  • Be kind, respectful and don't forget there's always a Human being the other side.
[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Or help in hosting the software yourself via Torrents to reduce the load on their servers