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NanoKVM - What's the status? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

..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 1 points 3 days ago

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.

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