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Flock day 2
Another all too early start of the day, and we all had gathered in the auditorium to hear Aeva Palecek from lulzbot talk about 3d printing. Most every disaster you can think of happened during this...
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Day 3 started with a keynote from Dave Crossland about free fonts and making them. Lots of great background on the free fonts world and some ideas on how to fund things to make it better. Next was...
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Flock day 4: hackfests
Day 4 was more hackfests than scheduled talks. First up was a gpg key signing and cacert assurance event. There was about a 50% turn out from those who asked to attend, which isn’t too bad considering...
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This week in Fedora Infrastructure (2013-08-16)
Much of this last week many of the members of the Fedora Infrastructure team were at flock. Many kudos to those that organized and ran things, it was a great time. We had a lot of great face to face...
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This week in rawhide, the branch day edition
It’s here! Branch day! This is the time when Fedora 20 branches off rawhide and becomes it’s own seperate collection of packages and buildroots and install trees. Rawhide itself marches on with only a...
View ArticleThis week in Fedora Infrastructure
Another exciting and busy week in Fedora Infrastructure. I finished getting our rdiff-backup setup in place. We have been using bacula to do backups to tape, but getting things off tape can be anoying....
View Articlerawhide notes for 2013-08-27
Just a few things to call out this week in rawhide: Our increasing the deltarpm limit seems to have gone well. There’s one issue with one package, but it doesn’t seem memory related. Hopefully folks...
View ArticleWhat are these funny icons on fedorahosted trac?
Users of any fedorahosted trac instance may have noticed recently that their gravatar icon has become some weird little retro pattern. The reason for this is simple: We have switched from using...
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This week in rawhide (the multiweek edition)
Sorry I’ve skipped a few weeks of rawhide reporting. Some fun issues in the last few weeks: freerdp was updated, and that seems to have had several issues falling out of it. remmina’s rdp plugin is...
View ArticleWhat it takes to run your web application in Fedora Infrastructure
Over the years we have had many folks show up and ask us to run their web application in Fedora Infrastructure. Very often they don’t realize it’s not as easy as they first think to just write, deploy...
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This week in rawhide, the 2013-09-17 edition
Another week along and rawhide keeps on rolling along. A few things to note from the past week: There was a systemd breakage where logind wasn’t correctly showing local users as logged in. This of...
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Lenovo yoga 2 pro and Fedora review
For the last few years I have been looking around as new laptops came on the market, but nothing really interested me enough to consider moving from my trusty thinkpad T510. This fall there is a new...
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Rawhide week in review (2013-10-22)
It’s been a few weeks since I posted a rawhide week in review. First I was very busy and there wasn’t all that much going on in rawhide, then I was on vacation. Now I’m back and there’s a fun little...
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This week in rawhide (2013-10-29) edition
Another pretty quiet week in rawhide land. One thing that I noticed the other day was a package that had been updated in the Fedora 20 branched release, but not in rawhide. In the past there was some...
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The tale of the screaming fan
A few weeks ago when I got back from vacation, I noticed (couldn’t help but notice) that one of the fans in my main server was making nasty dying ball berring noises. The computer room/library is down...
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Another week in rawhide, early november edition
Rawhide continues to be nice and boring for the most part. Just a few things to note from the last week: There was an update to upower that bumped the api/abi. This broke a number of packages. Most of...
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Fun with touchscreens and Linux
So, a little while ago I got a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro. This laptop has a touchscreen on it. I didn’t think I would pretty much ever use it, but it came along with the package. So, I decided to look around...
View ArticleAnother few weeks of rawhide
Another few weeks of rawhide and a few things to note: virt-manager continues to be broken. I had hopes that there was light at the end of the tunnel, but it seems not. It now starts up fine, but...
View ArticleUpdates-testing and final freeze time again
If you have a Fedora 20 install and updated recently, you may or may not have noticed that the updates-testing repo is now disabled. It’s enabled for testing during most of the pre-release cycle of...
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Rolling Rolling Rolling…rawhide (2013-12-03 edition)
As of a few days ago, virt-manager is working again in rawhide. Crobinso tracked down the builds needed (a gtk3 and pygobject3 build). This just goes to show that bugs where there are a lot of...
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