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| author | Arnav Bhatt <arnav@ghativega.in> | 2023-11-04 00:52:28 +0530 |
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diff --git a/blog/utkirna-v1.0.0.html b/blog/utkirna-v1.0.0.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b8dbf5 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/utkirna-v1.0.0.html @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<head> +<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> +<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='style.css'> +<meta property="og:title" content="Utkirna v1.0.0"> +<meta property="og:description" content="Initial release of Utkirna"> +<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"> +<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache"> +<title>Ghativega</title> +<style> +img { border: none ;} +</style> +</head> +<body> +<div class="blog-content"><p><a href="index.html"><-- Back to main page</a></p> +<div id="post"> +<h2>Utkirna v1.0.0</h2> +<p>Posted on 04/11/2023 12:52:28 AM GMT</p> +<br> +<p> +<img src="assets/images/utkirna.png" alt="app"/> +</p> +<p> +This is the initial release of Utkirna, a cross-platform application heavily inspired from <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/">Win32DiskImager</a> that lets you to write a raw disk image to a removable device or backup a removable device to a raw image file. It is useful for preparing bootable drives with "dd like" images for PC, SBC and embedded development boards as well for backing up such drives. +Utkirna (devanagari: उत्कीर्ण, romanized: Utkīrṇa) means "engraved" in Sanskrit. +</p> + +<h3> The reason of its creation</h3> +<p> +I always wanted to created this sort of application for a long time, perhaps ever since <a href="https://etcher.balena.io/">balenaEtcher</a> was a thing as I hated the idea of an electron app which basically mimicks what <code>dd</code> command does while consuming unnecessary amount of memory for doing such a simple task. I am aware that people don't like using <code>dd</code> due to screwing things up easier, but this certainly was not the way. Suprisingly, there are not other cross-platform applications which does similar job to my knowledge even till this day. The only application that I know that was similar to balenaEtcher is Win32DiskImager which obvious by its name, is only for Windows. Hence, this started my interest to develop similar cross-platform application which isn't made using dreaded electron. +</p> + +<h3> Development</h3> +<p> +Earlier on, I was planning to use C with <a href="https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear">Nuklear</a> (for the UI) for the development. However, as I started experimenting with <a href="https://go.dev/">Go</a>, I realised that it would be more sensible to use this language for desktop applications due to its simplicity yet not losing a lot of performance compared to C. And after discovering about <a href="https://fyne.io/">Fyne</a> a fantastic GUI toolkit, this pretty much sealed the deal for me. +</p> +<p> +To have some kind of idea on how these type of applications worked (on the basis of how it read or write a disk or a raw image file), Win32DiskImager greatly helped me and even clarified me on what sort of libraries would I require to accomplish this task. The only real issue I had was to implement my own Windows interfaces for some IOCTL and FSCTL operations (which is done through <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/ioapiset/nf-ioapiset-deviceiocontrol">DeviceIoControl</a>) as Go didn't have native support for those (which I am going to upstream someday) but it really wasn't hard to do so. +</p> + +<h3> Features</h3> +<p> +In the current state, the program supports: +</p> +<ul> +<li>Reading through a removable disk and saving it as a raw image file.</li> +<li>Writing a raw image file or anything which is "dd compatible" to the disk.</li> +<li>Verification of a raw image through the disk and vice versa.</li> +</ul> + +<h3> Installation & Usage</h3> +<p> +Go to the <a href="https://github.com/arnavbhatt288/utkirna">Github repository</a> for further instructions. +</p> +</div> +</main><div class = footer><p>2023 ghativega.in | Powered by <a href="https://pedantic.software/git/blogit/">blogit</a> | <a href="atom.xml">Atom RSS</a></p></div></body></html> |