[markvdb]

We do at https://fosdem.org on our custom made video gear. That's 56 boxes in a crucial spot in our operation. We went out of our way to make sure we had plain vanilla mainline Debian stable packaged linux running on the Allwinner A20 based boards that power them, instead of some binary arm kernel with all kinds of issues.

[BiggusDijkus]

OffTopic: At FOSDEM, I was quite curious about those media boxes. Is there any docs to read about them?

[markvdb]

Here's some info at least:

* a rough diagram: https://github.com/FOSDEM/video/tree/master/hardware

* the software running on them: https://github.com/FOSDEM/infrastructure/tree/master/ansible...

Your message also served as a reminder that I should really publish the laser cut box cutting and assembly info. I'll get to that eventually.

[AceJohnny2]

Was your fleet impacted by this?

Edit: oh, FOSDEM was 2 weeks ago, not in the near future, so impact is less

[Insanity]

Off-topic, but Fosdem is great! Started going about 6ish years ago and always enjoy it!

Thanks for the hard work and for providing such a great event for free. And for the cool t-shirts :D

[markvdb]

Thank you for the kind words. Much appreciated!