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[[!meta title="Alpine Linux on the HP X360 1040 G5"]]
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## Overview
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Due to RAM limitations in most notebooks (16G maximum) I have recently
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switched to the HP X360 1040 G5, more or less the 14" HP equivalent of
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the Lenovo X1 Carbon. Some tech specs for the geeks under us:
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* Resolution 3840x2160
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* 1 TB SSD / NVMe
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* 32GB RAM
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This article is work in progress, currently more to be seen as a todo
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list for myself.
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## Alpine
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My backup notebooks are currently running Arch Linux and Devuan. As I
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find Alpine an interesting project (it resembles most of what I think
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how Linux should be), I thought about giving it a try.
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Some things that are a bit special in alpine Linux:
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* Does not come with shadow by default
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* Uses musl libc instead of glibc (yeah!)
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Besides that, some things that are instant benefits of Alpine:
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* easy to use package manager
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* easy to write package format
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* VERY fast package installations (because they are fast)
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* The sound is GREAT (especially compared to the X1 Carbon that does
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not really have speakers)
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## What is working on alpine + X360 1040
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Almost everything. C'mon, it's 2019 and as long as xorg + i3 is
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running, what is there more that you want?
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Some things to emphasise of either:
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* The keyboard is quite nice (actually nicer then Gen6 X1 Carbon)
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* You can run startx via ssh and there is no stupid config that stops you from it!
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## What is currently not working on alpine + X360 1040
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There are a few
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minor hiccups that I still need to solve in the next days:
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* create a package for mu4e 1.2 (currently installed in /usr/local)
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* needs fix for /usr/bin/sh reference
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* create a package for magit
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* create a package for vym
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* create a package for openconnect
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* create a package for kismet
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2019-05-14 17:10:40 +00:00
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* checkout why the shotwell package is broken
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* checkout why the firefox package is broken
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* hotkeys don't send the right key events => might be a kernel issue
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* xbacklight => does not see backlight control
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* There is however a backlight control in /sys/backlight/intel_backlight
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* Maybe just a permission issue
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* xrandr does not show screen connected via usb-c (have to test other outputs)
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2019-05-14 17:10:40 +00:00
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[[!tag unix linux notebook]]
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