NanoKVM - What's the status?
from iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 09:57
https://lemm.ee/post/61682708

Hi guys! What’s the status of the Sipeed NanoKVM FOSS image? I was subscribed to the thread, and I even saw Jeff Geerling’s comments. Eventually they claimed the whole image was open source, and left it at that. If you go now to their github, the last published image is from February, v1.4…0. But everyone talks about the last upgrade to 2.2.5? In fact, if I connect my NanoKVM, it does detect that update, but I don’t think it’s the fully open sourced version? Is this correct?

Anyone can provide a bit more detail on what’s going on? Should I manually flash v1.4 that you can download from the repo? And if so…how do I do it?

Thanks!

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just_another_person@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 10:46 next collapse

What do you mean? Looks like they use tags to track releases: github.com/sipeed/NanoKVM/tree/2.2.6

You’re just browsing the main branch perhaps. They probably don’t consider these stable, but they’re all tracked in the releases page: github.com/sipeed/NanoKVM/releases

iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee on 21 Apr 07:46 collapse

I’m…not sure your link works correctly. It just takes me to the main page just like github.com/sipeed/NanoKVM.

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 07:58 collapse

Are you unfamiliar with git?

  1. Load page.
  2. Checkout tree 2.2.6
  3. Build and install according to directions.

Or you could just go to the Releases page as I also mentioned. The files are there as well.

iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee on 22 Apr 14:43 collapse

…Thanks. I found their wiki. The flashing instructions were not in the github page, and I have the ‘full’ model, so the SD card is not exposed. I guess I’ll try to do it with the reset button. Is the github repo now fully open sourced? Or do I need to install a different image in order to be the complete FOSS version?

Thanks!

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 14:58 collapse

The GitHub repo IS the source code. That’s what open source means. All of the code is right there, and the releases ARE the FOSS version. There is no closed-source code for this project.

kurikai@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 10:47 collapse

Its two parts. The os and the remoting software

iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee on 21 Apr 07:47 collapse

Thanks! That’s a bit more helpful. Is there a guide explaining each part and how to install these?