F13 just released a while back. An awesome release that's being discussed everywhere!! Folks here in Bangalore had been really itching to celebrate this one with a release party. Rangeen and Deependra took the initiative on this one and announced the release party a few days back on the fedora-india …

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I just finished installing a F13 i386 on VirtualBox to use for testing and other purposes. Here's a screenshot :)

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I've been around the Fedora Community for a while now.  It's been almost two years since Rahul took an irc workshop that got me started into packaging and growing into a contributor. In all this while, I've been to a foss.in, a GNUnify where I've met up with more …

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All I want to say today is "I SUCK AT OPEN ARENA!"

Thanks

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Arun has already blogged about this. This is a more "technical" post ;)

I recently reviewed and approved an applet that displays cricket scores on your GNOME panel. The bug report is ?here. Since the cricket 20-20 world cup is on, I thought I'd request the community to try the applet …

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I filed my first gnome bug report today. Until now, I was limited to filing bugs at the red hat bugzilla itself. This one is an RFE for Evolution. I use Evolution to help me manage the many mailing lists etc. that I like to keep up with. I want …

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I'm just putting this out here. I think most are already aware of this.

One can back his~/.gnote directory up and restore it when required. In Fedora 13, the default directory has been changed to ~/.local/share/gnote

It's mentioned in the release notes draft here

Copy your files …

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I had wanted to swipe my system clean for almost two years now but the convenient separate /home partition kept me from doing so ;).  However, last night, I swiped it clean, formatted the entire disk, and gave it the awesomeness of Fedora 13.

It did take 900MB of updates to …

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After fpaste, I've managed to package nautilus-pastebin and include it into the Fedora repositories. Nautilus-pastebin is an extension to nautilus that enables you to paste a file to your favourite online paste site. It has some presets and I've set the default to fpaste.org for Fedora. It should come …

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So, there's a FAD planned at Pune towards the end of May. If you look at the agenda for the event, there are some folks who'd like to contribute to the Tour. Since there are only a couple of us working on it as of now, we decided that more …

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