neuroscience/fedora/musings
I've often been asked,"I'm new to FOSS. How do I begin contributing? I don't know anything at the moment." I understand the situation that these noobs are in. After all, we've all been through it. In fact, I'm still in this position in a lot of scenarios. Well, really …
Byobu in fedora hasn't been updated in a while. The current fedora version is 4.4, while upstream has moved on to 5.17. That's quite a lag we have. There's a bug filed requesting an update by Upstream release monitoring, but it hasn't received any human responses at all …
The quotes will say it all:
Dear Mr.ankur,
Will I ever recieve this media?
Regards,
My reply:
Dear Mr abc,
While I agree that it's taking longer than usual to get media to you, I do not appreciate you pretending as if you have the right to any media …
Well, the title says it all. Fedora Tour, which we recently decided to make a web application needs web developers. Ironic eh? The thing is: none of the current Fedora Tour team members have ever done web development before. We're learning, but the changes with HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript have …
Hi folks,
There has been a change in the way livecd-iso-to-disk works when using a
DVD image. In the past, you had to have one bootable partition on the
USB media you chose to use, and livecd-iso-to-disk would use it to set
up the media. It would copy the required …
To maintain tradition, I installed beta on my system yesterday. Fedora 17 beta is pretty good. It gave me both some pleasant and unpleasant surprises. I'm just going to note some of them down here to give them some visibility.
I'm really not …
Note: This is at best, a hack.
Currently yumdownloader does not download x86_64 packages on an i686 host. The --archlist argument is not sufficient, and setarch x86_64 does not work. The --archlist argument doesn't work because yum picks up repository information from the configuration files where $basearch is …
I've submitted a package review for PyCscope which is Cscopefor Python files. Cscope on it's own isn't designed for python files at all. It doesn't work very well according to my google searches.
I've roped in Praveen to review it for me, so expect it in the repositories sometime …
I've been looking to get my finger print reader working on Fedora for quite a while now. Alas, fprint hasn't gotten down to writing drivers for my hard-ware yet. However, someone else did the work for them. The code isn't included in the libfprint mainline yet. I've filed a bug …
