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Fri 30 September 2011

What is Ask Fedora?

Posted by ankur in Tech (62 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

Ask fedora is a question-answer style user forum where everyone can solve their queries. It's incredibly easy to use! Sign up using one of the many log in methods (including open id, google accounts) and start asking questions today!

Many thanks to mether, pjp, praveen and a host of others …

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Sat 24 September 2011

vimperator

Posted by ankur in Tech (62 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

I'm a keyboard guy: I don't like to move my hands off the keyboard to move my mouse around or use my touch pad. Therefore, I was pleased to run into vimperator. Sure, a lot of you would already know about this firefox add-on, but I'm throwing it out on …

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Sat 20 August 2011

Fedora GSoC: Report

Posted by ankur in Tech (339 words, approximately a 2 minute read)

The soft pencils down date has passed. I'm to submit a report soon. I thought I'd blog one first ;)

Here's the complete package list that I've worked on, with their current statuses. There is a huge dependency chain here. Most of the packages require their build deps to be packaged …

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Mon 15 August 2011

Fedora GSoC: Week 16

Posted by ankur in Tech (126 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

Week 16! Woah! That seems like a loong time :D

This week,Spotapproved my xmedcon package. In the process, he even patched libtpcimgio and libtpcmisc to generate shared objects. (It took him all of 5 minutes!) Thank you spot!! Now that xmedcon is packaged, Susmit can go back to …

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Sun 07 August 2011

Fedora GSoC: Week 15

Posted by ankur in Tech (57 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

Woah! Week 15!

xmedcon is finally ready for review. Can you review it?! Both it's build dependencies were built and pushed to updates this week.

I just submitted gnumed-client for review. Susmit has already packaged gnumed-server and it's available in the fedora repositories. :)

The FreeMat package has been fixed too …

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