It’s test day time again, folks, and this one’s a biggie! You may have read about the brand new initialization system, systemd, written by Lennart Poettering. At the moment, we’re planning to use it as the default initialization system for Fedora 14. Obviously, this is a bold step with a fairly new piece of code.
This week’s Test Day, which will take place on Tuesday 2010/09/07 rather than the more usual Thursday, is on systemd, so it’s a very important one! It will also serve at least two functions: as usual, the testing will help us to improve the code so that if it does go into the final Fedora 14 release it will work as well as possible, but the Fedora steering committee will also be using the results of the Test Day to help inform their final decision as to whether to go ahead with systemd for the Beta and final release, or whether to revert to upstart. So there’s a lot riding on this Test Day. As usual, the Test Day will run in #fedora-test-day on Freenode IRC – see this page if you’re not sure how to use IRC.
As usual, we’ve tried to make it as easy as possible to participate. There’s full testing instructions on the Test Day wiki page, and you can contribute some helpful testing just by running a nightly live image and making sure it boots correctly. Of course, the more testing you can contribute the better, and there are lots of tests documented on the page for those who have the time and the ability to install a copy of Fedora 14 for testing. We also welcome freeform testing of systemd during the Test Day – it will be very helpful for people simply to configure a test Fedora 14 installation with the configuration you’d typically use, and make sure systemd handles starting the system properly.
Lennart and myself will be around as much as we can during the Test Day to help out and follow up on your results. We’re both in European time zones at present. Lennart’s IRC nick is ‘mezcalero’, and I’m adamw. Please do come along and help us test out this important new component – it’s really important that we get as much testing done as possible. Thanks!
Hello everyone,
I had gone to Christchurch for the weekend after the quake hit there. Something very interesting happened on my way back from Christchurch yesterday. I was standing at the bus stop and waiting for my bus and the bus doesn’t stop at the bus stop and just goes past me. Now I run after the bus and they don’t stop. Turns out I was standing at the wrong bus stop on the same street. I stood there ranting at the bus driver(not loudly) and thinking I just blew 50 buck on that ticket and ended up missing the bus because of my incompetence(LOL). Anyways I wait for the next bus and luckily they had an empty seat on it. While I waited in line to get on, I over hear the driver talking to one of the passengers “How bad was it mate? You are all packed up.”, The guys says, “Not bad holdin’ up well, I just lost everything, Everything I ever owned. Going down to my sisters in DUDs to start over again.” Now is when I was standing there, almost like I was hit on my head with a brick. This was a lesson God wanted me to learn from. He shows me how insignificant my loss was compared to the many who have lost their entire lives. I have everything in my life, all the comforts and have a very fulfilling life with what I do as well. Thank you so much Father God, for keeping me safe and thank you so much for the suffering in my life. It makes me a better man.
Regards
JMM
I’ve got some feedback about my desktop… This is the stuff I use:
I am not sure where I digged up Equinox Evolution Squared (probably with Equinox 1.30 engine).
I’ve made a small rpm with the GTK Theme and Metacity which can be found at my fedorapeople user space. I haven’t included the X Cursor as it’s licence it’s Artistic 2.0 and I’m not sure if I can repackage it and distribute it. Not messing with the Wallpaper also because I’m not aware of it’s licence and the Icon Theme I advice you to install it using the install script distributed with it.
In addition to this I also use the following:
My .notify-osd has the following values:
slot-allocation = dynamic bubble-expire-timeout = 6sec bubble-vertical-gap = 11px bubble-horizontal-gap = 7px bubble-corner-radius = 30,5% bubble-icon-size = 35px bubble-gauge-size = 10px bubble-width = 280px bubble-background-color = e8e6e1 bubble-background-opacity = 90% text-margin-size = 15px text-title-size = 95% text-title-weight = bold text-title-color = 1f578e text-title-opacity = 95% text-body-size = 95% text-body-weight = normal text-body-color = 06121e text-body-opacity = 95% text-shadow-opacity = 10%Die aktuelle Ausgabe der Fedora Weekly News ist abrufbar. Der RSS Feed bei Radiotux ist im Blogeintrag zur aktuellen Sendung unter http://blog.radiotux.de/2010/09/05/fedora-weekly-news-fwn241/ zu finden.
Die Fedora Weekly News (FWN) werden bei der wöchentlich ausgestrahlten Sendung von Radiotux (siehe http://www.radiotux.de) Donnerstags gesendet und sind auch über den dortigen RSS Feed abrufbar.
Die Originalvorlage der FWN als Text ist wie immer unter https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue zu finden.
Bei Fragen, Anregungen, Meinungen, Kritik einfach eine Mail an mich. Bitte beachtet auch den Spendenaufruf. Danke.
Audio-Datei herunterladen (2010-09-05.Radiotux.Fedora_Weekly_News_241.mp3)
I was housekeeping the new free media tickets from India this morning. Since I was manually going over tickets, I thought I’d spend some more time and collect some statistics for this month’s tickets. I’m not going to make any deductions from these, I’ll let the numbers do the taking. If you think you can take a few requests per month, (we say 2 per month is nice enough) and you’d like to sign up, go to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia#Join_us . Cheers!
@Fedora Volunteers from India : WE NEED MORE OF YOU !!!
Sorted by number of tickets from a country
The Libre Graphics Day miniconf at linux.conf.au is going ahead again in 2011!
The call for papers, and further information about this miniconf is available at:
http://libregraphicsday.org/
Mój brat używa Ubuntu i to on sprowokował ten post. Sprowokował go rewelacyjnym wyglądem Ubuntu. Fedora może się dużo nauczyć od ludzi z Canonical jeśli chodzi o design. Całe szczęście można w pewnym stopniu stworzyć sobie styl Ambiance na Fedorze. Rozwiązanie nie jest wolne od błędów i na pewno nie jest przyjemne ale efekt końcowy wygląda ok. Zrzut ekranu na zachętę.
Do uzyskania takiego wyglądu potrzeba kliku pakietów.
Pierwsze co to ikony. Mnie udało się znaleźć paczki rpm z ikonami ubuntu: ubuntu-mono-icons i human-icon-theme. Nie są przygotowane dla Fedory ale można instalować bez obaw, jedyna rzecz jaka się zainstaluje w systemie to nowe ikony.
Kolejną rzeczą do instalacji jest sam motyw Ambiance, w tym wypadku jest to jego wariacja o nazwie Ambiantastic. W tym momencie pojawiają się drobne problemy, z prostego powodu, wersja murrine w Fedorze jest trochę niższa niż w Ubuntu. Sam motyw można już wybrać ale wygląd będzie mocno odbiegał od tego czego się spodziewamy. Rozwiązaniem jest uruchomienie jakiegoś programu w terminalu (ważne aby tylko pokazało się brzydkie okienko) i już można zabrać się do edycji pliku gtkrc dla danego motywu. W terminalu powinien pojawić się następujący błąd.
Rozwiązanie jest proste czyli zakomentowanie linijki i ponowne uruchomienie wcześniejszego programu w celu testów. Zapewniam, że podobne błędy wyskoczą kilkakrotnie i za każdym razem będzie trzeba komentować nowe linijki. W końcu odpali się bez tych błędów (będą inne dotyczące ikon) i będzie wyglądać w porządku.
Teraz trochę o irytujących błędach, które się pojawiają. Pierwszy z nich to tło niektórych ikon z traya, jest białe i rzuca się w oczy jak psia kupa na śniegu.
Następny błąd to wygląd przycisków na belce tytułowej okien, nie są one idealnie zaokrąglone, właściwie to wcale.
Ostatni to nie błąd a niedociągnięcie, mianowicie niektóre ikony pomimo tego, że mają odpowiedniki nie są zastępowane przez ikony ubuntu-mono. Prawdopodobnie jest to spowodowane innym nazewnictwem plików ikon. Na obecną chwilę nic innego nie zauważyłem. Będę używał tego motywu i tak bo motyw Fedory mi zbrzydł okropnie. A kto wie, może murrine zostanie zaktualizowane niedługo i te artefakty znikną. Swoją drogą to ciekawe jak się prezentuje wygląd F14, ja dzisiaj zerknąłem na Ubuntu 10.10 i nie mogłem znaleźć swojej szczęki przez długi czas.
Update: Udało mi się zmusić ikonę głośności do wyświetlania ikon z motywu. Należy w katalogu /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark/status/24/ usunąć słowo panel z nazw plików audio.
Ambiance z Ubuntu w Fedorze to wpis z FLLOGa
Se ha publicado la lista de ganadores de los que quisieron colaborar con fondos de escritorios adicionales para la versión 14.
En la siguiente página van a poder verlos y descargarlos.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Supplemental_Wallpapers_Winners
Aquí van a encontrar a todos los wallpapers que participaron.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Supplemental_Wallpapers_Submis...
En la página van a poder ver el resto de las mismas.
Tom Callaway anunción que finalmente se pudo solucionar el problema del licenciamiento de glibc.
Aquí les dejo los enlaces a los artículos relacionados a la noticia y sobre cómo Fedora y Debian habían actuado hasta ahora.
http://spot.livejournal.com/315383.html
http://spot.livejournal.com/315640.html
I’ve made available in my fedora user space some RPM’s for Fedora 13 with notifyconf, a configuration tool for Notify OSD. Notify OSD needs to be patched with the patch provided by leolik.
I know the stock icon for this tool sucks. It can be launched from GNOME Menu > System Tools > NotifyOSD Configuration.
Dear lazyweb,
Since around 1 week (and the updates that were pushed during this period), the sound playback randomly comes and goes on my parent’s Fedora 13 box and I have no clue on which component to create a bugzilla report. The only thing I can report is that:
So, I pretty much suspect the recent kernel upgrade to 2.6.34 as it had enhancements related to Radeon cards…any thoughts? I’m still investigating as I can’t seem to reproduce the problem every time. Yeah, fun bugs.
and this happened. So, as this table shows, Fedora's Haskell packages aren't all that expansive at the moment. This is a list of 50 packages that I filed review requests for within the last 18 hours or so (cabal2spec and various scripts I've made make a world of difference) plus some others which have been lingering for a while (xmobar and ghc-text, for instance). If anyone would like to trade reviews, I'd be happy to do some. Also, comaintainers are welcome. Come join #fedora-haskell and we'll trade off.
Basically the result so far is that yesod is packaged as well as some other dependencies of hledger. The yesod framework which is type-safe and has a RESTful interface. No broken links, no templates throwing tracebacks, and more. The author's blog explains it better than I can if you want details. hledger on the other hand is a financial book-keeping tool which uses the same format as ledger. It has a command line and a web interface (through yesod). It can also generate charts, but if I understand correctly this is going away. Unfortunately since the current release either gets the web or doesn't it can't be properly packaged so that it can be used on the terminal without dragging yesod around. Hopefully the next version will help with that. In the mean time, there are a lot of dependencies to review.
The tools I used as two functions that I wrote to help with these large dependency chains locally. The first is lintmock which runs rpmlint over the all of the resulting RPMs from a build. This is on each of the review requests I posted (ignore the strange permissions warnings; my umask of 027 isn't liked). The second one is uprepo which takes all of the RPMs from a build and stuffs them into a local repository and runs createrepo over it to prepare it for the next build. It also splits out debuginfo and source RPMs from the others and puts each in a separate repository. You can find the source for these and some other useful functions in my .zshrc (lines 303--367 at the time of this posting).
I’ve just released ExMan 0.5. Actually, the code was in git master for quite some time now, but I got around of building RPMs only today. The source tar ball and RPMs are available at the usual Sourceforge.net download space.
Most notable changes are:
Transifex is the excellent translation software used by the Fedora team. It has a nice web interface where you can see summaries of translation status for the different projects (libguestfs, anaconda, Fedora docs, …)
Well I had an issue with my motherboard Recently which caused me to have to get it repaired/replaced.
The computer was experiencing some odd behavior with the board so I began to try and trouble shoot it using just about every possible way I could think of to narrow down and eliminate the errors. This proved to not have any change on the state of things, Several things still continued to go wrong and so I was forced to send the Motherboard in and use my laptop.
Well my laptop had Windows vista on in which proved to be a lot more trouble then it was worth, not having an extra windows 7 license (I use my laptop rarely and most of the time when I do I need to access windows specific features such as a domain) I was ether forced to re-install Vista or get rid of it all together.
I chose to get rid of it and put Fedora 13 in its place, this proved to speed things up a great deal as I figured it would. I did run into some issues with the computer getting bogged down at times, however this was more a result of my laptop not having a whole lot of ram Even with this slow down at times the computer still ran faster at full load when compared directly to Windows Vista Business.
Aside from this good news with the laptop running more smoothly, my over all mood is rather annoyed, I did after all have to send in the motherboard for my desktop to be repaired or possible replaced depending on what ASUS decides it wants to do.
Just when I thought it could not get worse, My 2 yr old Daughter found out where I had the CPU (thought it out of her reach I was wrong) and had thrown it down pretty hard on the kitchen floor. Now it being AMD it has lots of pin on the bottom and as far as I can tell no pins are damaged and it appears no physical damage exists. The real test will be when I try to use it in my desktop one the motherboard returns
Gaming
As well as the laptop runs on Fedora it still can not run my games, I am a rather active gamer at times on StarCraft 2 and World of Warcraft however neither of this seem to work well on Fedora. I can get WoW working on the desktop under Linux just fine but even though WINE claims SC2 will work I have yet to get it to work.
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A build for Fedora Rawhide is here.
The following PHP program displays the name of the operating system found in any disk image you give it:
<?php $disk = "f13.img"; $g = guestfs_create (); if ($g == false) { die ("Failed to create guestfs_php handle.\n"); } if (! guestfs_add_drive_ro ($g, $disk) || ! guestfs_launch ($g)) { die ("Error: " . guestfs_last_error ($g) . "\n"); } $roots = guestfs_inspect_os ($g); $name = guestfs_inspect_get_product_name ($g, $roots[0]); echo ("$disk: ".$name."\n"); ?>When you run it:
$ php inspect.php f13.img: Fedora release 13 (Goddard)ThaiFedora, an unofficial Fedora community in Thailand by Thai Fedora Ambassadors. Hosted by SiamHostDD.
Designed by the Fedora website team.
