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Post Fudcon todo’s

After seeing Christoph’s post fudcon 2012 todo list I thought that making a post fudcon TODO list was a great idea. Here’s mine (help welcomed!): Need to drop our staging git branch in puppet and merge...

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Please update your links: download.fedora.redhat.com -> dl.fedoraproject.org

A week or two back we got a bug report from someone that they were downloading Fedora from download.fedora.redhat.com via https and the ssl cert didn’t match up. Of course it wouldn’t, as...

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rc.local in Fedora

A number of folks have asked about this in #fedora over the last few months, so I thought I would do a quick blog post about rc.local in the systemd world. /etc/rc.d/rc.local is no longer shipped, but...

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Has it really been a year?

I got a little email note from the Red Hat HR folks today congratulating me on my 1 year anniversary with Red Hat. It really has gone by so quickly, so much to do, so much to learn, so much to work on....

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Xfce 4.10pre1 in Fedora

Xfce 4.10 pre1 was released on 2012-04-01 (no joke! In the last week I have built and landed it in Fedora rawhide, including rebuilding all the plugins against the new libraries. The only application...

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Goodbye to a friend…

Yesterday I had to say goodbye to a long time friend. ;( Farewell Bitters. I’ll miss your mrows from the kitchen, your so very loud purring (missing these last few weeks), and your curled up calico...

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Fedora 17 (prerelease) and updates-testing

If you have a Fedora 17 install and updated recently (since saturday), you may or may not have noticed that the updates-testing repo is now disabled. It’s enabled for testing during most of the...

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Xfce 4.10 final in Fedora

Xfce 4.10 was released to the world 2012-04-28 and Fedora rawhide was updated in the days right after that. (Thanks Christoph!) Our Fedora 18 feature has been approved:...

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Merlin: 1998 – 2012

Yesterday, we finally had to make the decision to send Merlin on his way. It never gets any easier to make that decision, but once again, I think we made the right one at the right time. (At least I...

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f17 distro-sync gotchas

As I noted recently ( Fedora 17 and updates-testing ) In the run up to Fedora 17 release, the updates-testing repo has been disabled. If you are wanting to use ‘yum distro-sync’ to sync your...

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Fedora Folks: remember to go vote!

Fedora Elections are open for votes until 2012-06-07 23:59UTC. The Fedora Board (electing 3 seats), FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) (electing 5 seats), and FAMSCo (Fedora Ambassadors...

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A short rant about ‘security questions’

It seems like many places are now setting up or making people use ‘security questions’. These are questions (and answers) that can be used to verify your identity in the event that your password is...

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Android device encryption

Last night I played around with the device encryption on my nexus 7. First of all, android uses dm_crypt, just like a Fedora install would. cryptsetup however is not used, android has it’s own...

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New Sponsor of Fedora Infrastructure

Folks who access fedoraproject.org resources may have noticed in the last week that things have become a bit faster. The reason for this is simple: We have a new sponsor of Fedora Infrastructure! I’d...

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Fedorahosted changes: cgit and fedorahosted-announce list

Wanted to mention to everyone 2 changes related to fedorahosted.org. First of all, we switched over to cgit from gitweb-caching. This move was a bit rockier than I wished, as I didn’t have all the...

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Fedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org

I’m happy to announce the general availability of our status.fedoraproject.org site. This site provides an easy way for Fedora contributors and users to check on the status of services provided by...

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WordPress tweaking

A long time ago (back when it existed), I installed wordpress-mu (multiuser) so I could host blogs for myself and other folks here at scrye.com. Then wordpress-mu merged back with wordpress and I kind...

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Fedora’s Myriad information channels (part 1)

Fedora has many different (and increasing all the time) ways to see whats going on and follow changes. Since there are so many of them these days, I figured I do a series of short blog posts...

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Fedora’s Myriad information channels (part 2)

This is part 2 of a series. See: http://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2012/10/22/fedoras-myriad-information-channels-part-1/ for part 1. Package changes. Fedora the distribution is all about changes...

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Fedora’s Myriad information channels (part 3)

This is part 3 of a series of posts about information Fedora produces about what going on in the project. Up this time: meetings. Various groups in Fedora meet (usually on IRC) weekly or bi-weekly and...

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