ROS/RPM IRC workshop series
I plan to take some workshops dealing with the robot operating system (ROS) and rpm packaging for Fedora.
Gnome 3.12 (3.11.90) on Fedora 20: A peek!
Updating and testing
So, the Fedora Desktop SIG have been discussing how Gnome 3.12 should be made available to Fedora users. Generally, Fedora discourages major updates to packages. The ideal scenario would be if Fedora 21 and Gnome 3.12 released close to each other, but it isn't going …
NEURON simulator on Fedora
I've been meaning to package up NEURON for Fedora for a while now. From the NEURON website:
*What is NEURON?*
NEURON
- is a flexible and powerful simulator of neurons and networks
- has important advantages over general-purpose simulators
- helps users focus on important biological issues rather than purely computational concerns
- has …
Time and task tracking
Being a research student is really tough. I mean tough. The most difficult part is keeping up the self discipline, day after day, week after week. As a research student, you make your own schedule, you even make your own syllabus pretty much. I handle the syllabus part just fine …
Donate to 0ad today!
0ad is an awesome awesome awesome game! For anyone who's played an Age of empires style game, you absolutely must try 0ad!
On Fedora, run:
sudo yum install 0ad #and start playing!
Game development isn't easy, and 0ad is requesting donations. I just donated the little that I could. If …
Fedora 20: first impressions and more
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I went ahead and updated to Fedora 20 using the Alpha RC3. One reason is to help test it, provide karma etc., the other is that I simply couldn't wait to use the new shiny packages!
Installation
I …
Minutes from last night's Fedora Medical IRC meeting
Summary
The meeting last night was a really good one. We got quite a few details sorted. We're finally moving towards creating a live image that we can give out to folks to try and give us feedback on.
The links that zodbot generated for us are:
Fedora medical IRC meeting today
A fedora-medical IRC meeting will be held in #fedora-meeting/-1/-2 later today. Please join us if you're interested in the SIG. The meeting will discuss the current state and what we must do to quickly get an unofficial spin out to collect feedback. This is my mail to the …
The 406 error conundrum!
Some of you may have noticed that my blog wasn't coming up on the planet recently. No? *sigh*. Well, Ralph(threebean) finally dug out the "bug" earlier today. The first clue was the error from the planet that Kevin was nice enough to get for us:
ERROR:planet.runner:Error …
What have I been up to in Fedora lately?
The general stuff
This is stuff that I do all year around, mostly on a daily basis. This comprises of:
- Package maintenance: updates/bugfixes etc.
- Testing: Giving karma to packages from updates-testing and filing bugs
- On Ask Fedora: retagging, answering questions that I know, cleaning up spam posts, some infrastructure …