{"id":153,"date":"2011-05-19T23:50:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T23:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/?p=153"},"modified":"2022-10-07T18:09:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T18:09:19","slug":"linux-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/2011\/05\/19\/linux-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linux has been a fun treat. I am a little baffled why this was so much work. Creating a .deb file was not as simple as I thought it was going to be. To get what I needed to get done, I actually downloaded several existing deb files, like putty, and unpacked them and examined the various files inside.<\/p>\n<p>Once I got it, I created a script to generate a deb file for me, but it still needs work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of static linking. There are several programmers who make the argument, it will bloat programs and it isn&#8217;t good practice. I say, Pfff!<\/p>\n<p>Flirc as a static compile in linux, is 8.6 MBytes. What is it when it&#8217;s not a static compile? About 1 MByte. So what are the downsides? My server is going to send more data. It will take up more space on client computers. What is the upside? I don&#8217;t have to deal with dependency nightmare that is arguably the major flaw in Linux. Worth it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still having issues with libusb, so I I currently have two binaries. A 64 and a 32 bit. They have been posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flirc.tv\/downloads_linux\">Linux Downloads Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the bottom, add the repo to your source.list file and get automatic updates. Please remember to send me feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux has been a fun treat. I am a little baffled why this was so much work. Creating a .deb file was not as simple as I thought it was going to be. To get what I needed to get done, I actually downloaded several existing deb files, like putty, and unpacked them and examined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppp9g-2t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}