Linux user to port Rune Audio to X86 with a custom ISO?

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Of all of the Linux distro's I have used Rune Audio (not to be confused with Roon) is the best I have used. Problem is that it is only available as embedded so getting it to work on X86 hardware is not supported yet.

I am a PC user, but Linux I only have enough know-how to be mildly dangerous. I am not familiar with Grub or any other bootloader type implementations to make this work.

Are there any Linux users out there willing to give it a shot? Willing to offer compensation for your time and efforts

-Joshua
 
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Of all of the Linux distro's I have used Rune Audio (not to be confused with Roon) is the best I have used. Problem is that it is only available as embedded so getting it to work on X86 hardware is not supported yet.

I am a PC user, but Linux I only have enough know-how to be mildly dangerous. I am not familiar with Grub or any other bootloader type implementations to make this work.

Are there any Linux users out there willing to give it a shot? Willing to offer compensation for your time and efforts

-Joshua

I totally agree. I'm not the type of person to go on about stuff like cables and DACs etc, digital audio is mostly the same. However, running Rune Audio on my Pi, I could hear a noticeable more stable audio as compared to the raspian os I was running previously. I started reading the docs which confirmed what my ears told me: the makers have hand tweaked the distro to reduce jitter. I could hear it. Remember this is a Raspberry Pi mark 1. There probably was jitter on the raspbian.

I was super bummed just now when I could not find a x64 version surely this is a matter of compilation no/yes? I imagine this would take 4 to 6 hours yes? I wonder if this can be done via docker.
 

tomachi

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It sounds like the best approach would be to use kernel 4.19 and install Arch linux x64, and then run the Rune Audio build scripts such as https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=14880 and also say by cloning into your install this repo https://github.com/RuneAudio/RuneOS/blob/master/scripts/cookbook_prod_OLD.txt and trying to run the build scripts probably changing references to ARM to x64 somehow. I will give this a go now and if it works will endeavour to post a fork up with my tweaks!!
 

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I just tried and failed with docker. Now I will try VirtualBox. Here is my attempt with docker if anyone can see what I did dwrong....

Code:
# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
# sshd and runeaudio on archlinux
# VERSION               0.0.1
# runeaudio is built on a customised Arch distro
FROM     archlinux:latest
# add for my company //tomachi.co/ 
WORKDIR /TomachiCorp
COPY RuneOS RuneOS
# Update the repositories
RUN  pacman -Syy
# Install openssh rsync
RUN  pacman -S --noconfirm openssh rsync
# this is git clone 
RUN rsync -arv --stats RuneOS/config/etc/ /etc/
RUN rsync -arv --stats RuneOS/config/usr/ /usr/
COPY Readme.txt Readme.txt
RUN cat Readme.txt
RUN chmod a+x ./RuneOS/scripts/cookbook_prod_OLD.txt
RUN sh ./RuneOS/scripts/cookbook_prod_OLD.txt
EXPOSE 80
COPY . .
CMD  ["need", "input"]

There are severe sounding errors before it gets to the CMD part.

Next I will try Virtualbox
My plan is to use the virtualbox image from https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/arch-boxes/-/jobs/55654/artifacts/file/output/
 

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