Cast your vote!
Well, eventually, that is. There's a lot to do before you can cast your vote for the Fedora Elections! If you missed Robyn's email, here are the seats available this election:
- Fedora Project Board: 3 seats
Are you a newbie looking to contribute to Fedora? Look at Easyfix!
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 …
I'm going to FUDCon Kuala Lumpur! Are you?
Updating byobu
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 …
A bad day with free-media in India
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 …
Fedora Tour needs web developers
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 …
Change in behaviour of livecd-tools: Testing required
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 …
Fedora 17 beta
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.
Broadcomm wireless working out of the box
I'm really not …
yumdownloader: downloading x86_64 packages on i686 systems
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 expanded to …
pycscope - Generates a cscope index of Python source trees
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 …