[Coco] Getting back into the Coco Community after a 4+ year break

[rcrislip]

On Fri, 04 Feb 2022 01:51:37 -0500
computerdoc <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hello Coco Community!
> After a 4+ year hiatus, I am getting back into the Coco Community.
> A very brief history of the last 4 years would be moving to NC in
> January 2018, helping and taking care of my parents, helping Mom with
> and through the last days of my father as well as details concerning
> Dad's funeral. I have also been treated for heart failure for the last
> 2 years and doing well. An upcoming procedure is yet to be planned.
> I have been studying the Raspberry Pi 4B as well as the CM4 boards. My
> main RPi systems are 2 - CM4 8GB boards on a RPi Official IO board and
> on a Waveshare IO board and 1 - CM4 4GB board on a 4B style carrier
> board. I also have 1 - 4B 8GB board housed in an ArgonOne M.2 case
> with an M.2 1TB SSD drive as my regular 4B system. In addition to all
> that, I have 2 - 4B 4GB boards, 1 - 4B 2GB board, and a 3B+. You
> might say I got deep into Rasbberry Pis! :) 
> I am writing the list to seek assistance in setting up my local Coco
> disk software build system on my new (to me) HP ZBook laptop running
> both Windows 11 and Linux Mint like I use to do in Windows 7 years
> back. I might setup Cygwin on Windows 11 with the NitrOS-9 build
> system just to have a starting point before getting everything
> running in Linux.  Anyone who has experience with Linux Mint (a
> debian variation) running on an HP ZBook Xeon Laptop and TwisterOS
> v2.1.2 (currently) on my Raspberry Pis as the OSes being used to
> build Lwtools, Toolshed, NitrOS-9 and etcetera coco software packages
> in sharing their setup ideas would be a big help.
> I have begun trying to get Lwtools, Toolshed, and NitrOS-9 build
> systems running on my laptop in Linux Mint to no avail so far. Some
> deep diving is required to continue in this direction. Stoppage on
> TwisterOS is not knowing how to solve some of the tool differences
> required between my previous Cygwin setup and using real linux systems
> as mentioned. Any help would be much appreciated. 
> I am looking forward to getting back into NitrOS-9 again at whatever
> version it is currently and exploring all the new boards I have only
> heard about up to this point.
> Zippster, what is your web site again? I want to check out your boards
> again. Any other websites sporting boards for the Cocos are most
> welcome as well. I'd like to reconnect with all my close friends
> again, but email addresses will be needed as my entire email setup
> has been totally redone in both Windows 11 and Linux systems! I am
> really looking forward to chatting with you guys again. Until next
> time, Take care my friends.
> 
> Kip Koon
> Fellow Coco Enthusiast
> 
> 
> 

WOW Kip, I wondered why the absence. Glad you are doing better and my
condolences concerning your father.