tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82891338842574335302024-03-06T03:29:26.094+01:00More FedoraBecause the more, the betterAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.comBlogger297125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-23022145374008069752014-06-03T15:11:00.001+02:002014-06-03T15:11:48.091+02:00FUDCon APAC Beijing - day 1 (Robert Mayr)When my alarm clock woke me up I was still very tired, but after a few minutes I realized I were in Beijing and had to go to the Beihang University for the first day of FUDCon. (yes I'm a lazy guy...)<br />
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The building is really impressive, and after registration I wanted to meet also the other guys who came to the event. I saw a lot of volunteers working around the booth and immediately thought that co-hosting the conference with GNOME.Asia was a very good idea, because it made the event much bigger.</div>
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After the Welcome Speech and a short overview of GNOME 3.12 held by Tobias Mueller, it was the turn of Jaroslav's and Jiri's Fedora Keynote. There were a lot of people who weren't contributors, so talking about Fedora.next was not very easy for them, but I think they presented it the right way and I really enjoyed it.<br />
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Once the Keynotes finished I went to another room where Nitesh talked about Fedora Videos. The talk was interesting although I already saw his talk at FLOCK in 2013.<br />
After Nitesh it was my turn, I talked about Fedora Websites, what the websites team does and how the sites work. I explained also the build process and Internationalization, trying to keep the discussion as easy as possible to involve also the non-contributors who were listening. At the end I talked about the changes due to Fedora.next and showed some screenshots of how the Fedora websites will probably look like. People seemed very impressed and I was somewhat happy they appreciated the work we are doing.<br />
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For lunch we went to the students canteen, where we ate rice dishes and some vegetable. After the lunch...beer in the hotel :)<br />
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In the afternoon I listened to Aditya's talk about Ansible and Zamir Sun's brief introduction to firewalld. The last two talks I wanted to hear were in chinese, so I jumped from one to the others and finished with the lightning talks.<br />
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In the evening we went to a nice place near the University, therefore many young people were there and we had a lot of fun. The Steps Bar had probably the biggest pizza in Beijing, some nice Chicken Burgers and obviously....a lot of beer (the glass in the foto contains 3 liters)!!!<br />
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Robert Mayrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14484248917666914674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-85882804480814739182014-06-03T15:11:00.000+02:002014-06-03T15:15:24.076+02:00FUDCon APAC Beijing - day 2 (Robert Mayr)The second day I was too pessimistic, the trip to the University was much faster as I believed and I also knew perfectly where I had to go, all this made me arrive 20-25 minutes earlier than expected. I was surprised that some people asked me about the websites and wanted to get more informations about contributing and what they need to know to start working. Seems my talk was not so bad, and making people more curious about websites was the goal I had, so hopefully we will have soon some APAC contributors again ;)<br />
The morning was all dedicated to two important talks, the first one about Systemd, the second about Computing, Freedom and Privacy. Lennart Poettering did a generic talk about what systemd is and added some practical examples, he also kept his talk easly to understand for everyone.<br />
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After a short break and some lightning talks it was the turn of Richard Stallman, it's always nice to hear him speaking about free software.<br />
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In the afternoon I helped Ankur during his GPG key signing workshop, as the half of the attendees hadn't even a key or were using other operating systems...we had a lot of fun during this session and it's true that a GPG key signing party is a cool social event.<br />
After I discovered that also the GNOME extensions session would have been in chinese I retired to another room to do some hacking, unfortunately nobody of the organisators thought about a hacking room where to get stuff done. After 40 minutes I went to the Fedora Women talk, held by Nitesh. It was funny that most of the attendees of this talk were men :)<br />
Once finished we all went to the main room for the closing speech and the group foto. It was a big event because it was co-hosted, maybe it's a good idea to do the same also in the future, because not only organisators did a great work, but the whole event benefited from this.<br />
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After the closing of day 2 we went to the near Vision Hotel, where we had a great dinner. From noodles, to rice dishes, hotpot and Beijing duck, all you wanted to eat was there. It was really a very good ending dinner of one of the best FUDCons of the last years.<br />
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For me Beijing lasted another 2 days, I did some sightseeing in the next days and enjoyed the local meals and chinese friendliness. Hopefully I can return to Beijing soon, I liked it very much!Robert Mayrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14484248917666914674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-18607526628594771672014-06-03T15:10:00.000+02:002014-06-03T15:11:16.809+02:00FUDCon APAC Beijing - day 0 (Robert Mayr)It happened all at the last moment, I decided to attend FUDCon APAC a lot after the official deadline, dropped an email to the organizers and as there were only a few days left before the event, I had to put together all my papers to obtain the visa for China.<br />
At the end all went fine, I booked flights, a hotel and started thursday 22th from Milan. After a short stop in Zurich I was on the plane to Beijing, my first time in China. The flight was quite good, meals were fine and after a couple of films and according to schedule we landed in Beijing at 5:20 in the morning. I took up my luggage and went to the Airport Express, which took me to the city. After another short trip with the subway I got off the train and went to my hotel. Ah yes, my hotel...<br />
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I decided to stay in another hotel, still quite good but less expensive, because I would have been reimbursed only partially for the flight. The problem was...I was not able to find it! Obviously I tried to ask but people were not really able to help me. The decision to print the address of my hotel in chinese turned out a very wise thought. At the end, and after more than 2 hours, a nice chinese girl accompanied me to the hotel and gave me also her business card. She was my salvation!<br />
After I checked in I had the whole day to discover this amazing city, so I took a shower and went to the center.<br />
Distances are quite big and I had to learn this first, but chinese people are very helpful, and although they often are not able to understand, they try to help you in every situation.<br />
I decided to visit the Lama Temple (Yonghe Gong) and it was quite impressive, it's not a very big place but I enjoyed this temple. The big buddha statue, 18 m high, is a must when you come to Beijing.<br />
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My first lunch in Beijing also was very curious, I discovered a small place were a lot of chinese people was eating, so it was a promising place. I asked for the menu and got it after seconds, but it was only in chinese...never mind I thought, and indeed a chinese guy who also spoke a bit of english asked if he could order for me and I let him do so.<br />
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What I got was a spicy soup and a good and cold Tsingtao beer, 25CYN were ok and after it I returned to the hotel, because I wanted to relax a bit before FUDPub.<br />
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The first social event also means the start of every FUDCon, so I moved to the <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">雕刻时光</span>, (Sculpture in Time Cafè), where I met some of the other Fedora guys and GNOME folks. <br />
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Jiri, Jaroslav, Ankur, Alick, Nitesh, Somvannda were only a few, there was also Emily, who heads the GNOME stuff, Tobias from Germany and Lennart Poettering.<br />
The evening was really good, we had pizza and rice with meat. Almost all of us wanted a beer, but unfortunately they had only a warm one...no problem, after FUDPub we took also a couple of well cooled beers in the hotel at 3CYN (!!!).<br />
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Subways in Beijing close at 23:00, so the evening was a bit short, but I was also very tired and I fell in the bed exhausted, looking forward to the first day of FUDCon APAC.Robert Mayrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14484248917666914674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-36496997805375601122014-01-24T09:16:00.000+01:002014-01-24T09:16:20.173+01:00Report: F20 Release Party PerugiaLast Saturday we held a Fedora 20 release party in Perugia (Italy). This time, I decided to use my own office space to host the party, even if the furniture is not 100% complete (release early!) so I could determine whether I can use it again (release often!) for other parties/courses.<br />
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This had pro and cons, but overall I am very happy with the results.<br />
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Since I was not really sure who would join me, I had ready a couple slide decks: the generic introduction to the project, and another one about Fedora.Next (based on the <a href="http://mattdm.org/fedora/next/">Flock slides</a> from <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/103763147500173410163" target="_blank">+Matthew Miller</a>).<br />
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As I mostly expected, the Fedora.Next topic was where I spent most of the time: I received many questions and comments about the plan, and people looked very interested and eager to know more details (which unfortunately I had not, since everything is still in early stages).<br />
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However, I will probably redo it next week at the traditional Linux Night dinner the local LUG organizes monthly.<br />
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Of course, the party wouldn't be complete without some food and drinks. In fact, I had a nice surprise for the participants:<br />
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As usual, I would like to thank the Fedora Project for sponsoring the party, and everyone that joined me to celebrate another great Fedora release.<br />
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All the materials used are available in <a href="http://giallu.fedorapeople.org/events/2014_F20_Release_Party/">my fedorapeople space</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-6125272200676957142014-01-09T12:46:00.001+01:002014-01-09T12:46:26.043+01:00Fedora 20 Release Party a PerugiaÈ un po' che non pubblico nulla sul blog, visto che di questi tempi la maggior parte delle mie farneticazioni su Linux e dintorni si sono spostate in Google+.<br />
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Mi fa quindi molto piacere tornare a scrivere per segnalare che il prossimo 18 Gennaio alle 16.30 faremo un bel party a Perugia per festeggiare il recente rilascio di Fedora 20.</div>
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<li>esamineremo assieme le feature di questa ultima release</li>
<li>parleremo di Fedora.next, la nuova organizzazione che il progetto si sta dando per modernizzare e snellire lo sviluppo, producendo come risultato una distro più appetibile</li>
<li>vedremo da dove iniziare per contribuire al progetto</li>
<li>brinderemo assieme alla salute di Fedora :)</li>
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Ovviamente, se avete qualche idea per un tema da trattare, accetto suggerimenti!</div>
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Per regolarmi sulla quantità di cibo/bevande per favore fatemi sapere, nei commenti oppure sulla <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/c94hdud4ommfi7o1l7p4h1d96m4">pagina Google+ dell'evento</a>, se pensate di partecipare.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-28030712021267627222013-10-04T10:16:00.000+02:002013-10-04T10:16:18.577+02:00Fedora non avrà più nomi in codiceLa Fedora Board, dopo un discussione protattasi per diverso tempo, ha deciso che Fedora 20 sarà l'ultima release con un nome in codice. Si è infatti deciso di non usare più la procedura corrente per la scelta del nome; se parte della comunità ne sentisse il bisogno sarà sempre possibile proporre una nuova procedura di scelta.<br />
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Personalmente non ne sentirò la mancanza.<br />
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Fonte: <a href="https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2013-October/012209.html">Fedora Advisory Board List</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-53994818049596230452013-09-18T12:32:00.000+02:002013-09-18T12:32:39.787+02:00Linux Day 2013<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stickers... Stickers everywhere.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Il 26 Ottobre torna il tradizionale appuntamento con il <a href="http://linuxday.it/">Linux Day</a> ed è il momento di pensare alla promozione della nostra distribuzione.<br />
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Se organizzate o semplicemente vi piacerebbe mostrare Fedora all'evento a cui partecipate (in questo caso, ricordate che siamo sempre in cerca di nuovi Ambassador per il progetto, contattatemi per avere altre informazioni)<br />
vi farà piacere sapere che anche quest'anno abbiamo un po' di materiale marketing (DVD, stickers, etc.) da distribuire ai partecipanti.<br />
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Se siete interessati per favore riempite il <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JIfRt_Vc87DuIO4qGExHa7OWRHUMnFfMNNYVk8JL9JU/viewform">form di richiesta</a> e sarete ricontattati per tutti i dettagli<br />
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Le regole sono semplici:<br />
<ul><li>le richieste si accettano fino alle 24:00 del 5 Ottobre</li>
<li>le richieste saranno soddisfatte secondo l'ordine di arrivo</li>
<li>le richieste da parte di Ambassador del progetto avranno la priorità</li>
</ul><div>Buon Linux Day a tutti!<br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-37745007074659038162013-09-06T10:16:00.000+02:002013-09-06T10:16:06.356+02:00Skype su Fedora 19 x86_64 (64bit)C'è qualcuno che ancora si ricorda Skype? Se <a href="http://morefedora.blogspot.com/2010/11/skype-su-fedora-14-x8664-64bit.html">l'ultima volta che ne ho parlato</a> avevo contatti che usavano solo quello ormai non lo apro praticamente più.<br />
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Tuttavia, se ne avete bisogno la procedura per l'installazione è rimasta sempre la stessa:<br />
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<li>scaricare <a href="http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-fc10">la versione più recente di Skype</a> (ad oggi, 4.2.0.11)</li>
<li>installare le dipendenze necessarie con '<code>yum install qt-x11.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 libXv.i686</code>'</li>
<li>installare skype con '<code>yum install --nogpgcheck skype-4.2.0.11-fedora.i586.rpm'</code></li>
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Ovviamente, sempre <a href="http://morefedora.blogspot.com/2009/04/non-disattivate-selinux.html">senza disattivare</a> SELinux...<br />
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PS. Ho attivato l'integrazione dei commenti con Google+, fatemi sapere che ne pensate!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-68410057194963280872013-09-03T09:30:00.000+02:002013-09-03T09:30:02.537+02:00Linux e il supporto alle GPU - a che punto siamo?<br />
Uno dei problemi più importanti per Linux è sempre stato il supporto alle schede grafiche recenti, anche se bisogna ammettere (onore al merito degli sviluppatori), che le cose negli ultimi anni hanno preso una piega decisamente migliore.<br />
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Ecco qual è attualmente la situazione:<br />
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<u><b>AMD/Ati:</b></u><br />
dal punto di vista funzionale il supporto a queste schede è migliorato tantissimo negli ultimi cinque anni, ottenendo un deciso aumento delle prestazioni.<br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8Qsmts9NNK0/UPP51PYvjCI/AAAAAAAA3WE/_n2BaHCUMI4/s320/amd_driver_linux.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8Qsmts9NNK0/UPP51PYvjCI/AAAAAAAA3WE/_n2BaHCUMI4/s320/amd_driver_linux.jpg" /></a>L'unica, forte, pecca, rimane la gestione del risparmio energetico, che spesso porta la GPU a surriscaldarsi, causando nei casi più estremi lo spegnimento di emergenza per overheating.<br />
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Fortunatamente, spesso la chiamata di sistema <i>vgaswitcheroo </i>funziona a dovere e ci permette di spegnere letteralmente la scheda dedicata in modo da poter usare solo quella integrata, abbassando anche di 35° la temperatura e portando l'autonomia dei notebook comodamente oltre le 3 ore. Anche se di fatto questo ci esclude la possibilità di usare la scheda dedicata.<br />
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Una soluzione più elegante arriverà con il <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_dpm_mix&num=1">kernel 3.11</a> (in arrivo in questi giorni), il quale porta con sé un insieme notevole di patch per la gestione del risparmio energetico nelle schede Radeon.<br />
La funzione, ancora in fase sperimentale, si attiva inserendo il parametro "radeon.dpm=1" al boot del kernel.<br />
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I primi test fatti utilizzando questa funzione hanno dato ottimi risultati, sia in termini di performance che in termini di risparmio energetico. <br />
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<u><b>NVIDIA:</b></u><br />
Le prestazioni delle nvidia con il driver open <i>nouveau</i> sono sufficienti per un uso normale del pc, anche se non si possono dire buone come quelle del driver <i>radeon</i>.<br />
Questo è soprattutto dovuto al fatto che le condizioni di lavoro degli sviluppatori in questo caso sono peggiori rispetto al driver <i>radeon</i> (<i>nouveau</i> è fondamentalmente il risultato di un enorme sforzo di <i>reverse engineering</i>).<br />
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Tuttavia, la lacuna più importante forse riguarda il mancato supporto alla tecnologia <i></i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus"><i>Optimus</i></a><i> </i>(di cui difettano anche i driver proprietari su Linux).<br />
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<a href="http://www.bytelite.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/linux-nvidia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://www.bytelite.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/linux-nvidia.jpg" width="320" /></a>Fino ad ora si è potuto parzialmente sopperire a tale mancanza tramite <a href="http://bumblebee-project.org/"><i>bumblebee</i></a>, un software in grado di gestire manualmente lo switch tra scheda grafica integrata e dedicata, consentendo tra l'altro anche l'avvio specifico di alcune applicazioni con la scheda dedicata.<br />
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Anche su questo fronte comunque, ci saranno novità a partire dal kernel 3.12, il quale, grazie ad una <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ0ODM">patch di David Airlie</a>, renderà possibile la gestione dinamica delle due schede tramite il kernel stesso.<br />
Questo significa che sarà il sistema operativo e non più l'utente a decidere quale delle due schede usare (così come avviene normalmente sui sistemi Windows).<br />
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Questa funzionalità supporterà inizialmente le schede Nvidia, ma in futuro è prevedibile che il supporto venga esteso anche alle schede Radeon.<br />
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~p.l.</div>
Paolo Leonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02470648780650929020noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-90939803868405835382013-08-22T17:34:00.000+02:002013-08-23T09:40:08.784+02:00Flock 2013 - A great successFrom August 9th to 12th, I had the chance to join Flock, the first Fedora Contributor Conference of a new kind, where about 200 people from 22 countries gathered to talk about the present and the future of Fedora.<br />
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Location was the nice city of Charleston, South Carolina, where the local college hosted our cheerful and motley crowd. So what did we do? Lot of stuff, really much more than I was able to digest!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Francis Marion Hotel</td></tr>
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I will attempt here some recollection of what I saw and experienced, but before....</div>
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Flock was a great and productive experience, the best place you can be to share what you know and learn what you don't (cit.) with the Fedora community. I really look forward participating to the next one, to be held somewhere in Europe (bids will open soon).</div>
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I would like to thank Red Hat and all the other sponsors for making all of this possible, all the organizers team, and in particular to <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/110596961995949027973" target="_blank">+Ruth Suehle</a>, who spent an inordinate amount of time pulling all the things together to make the first Flock a resounding success. You made it!</div>
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<b>Day 0.</b></div>
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I traveled with <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/100369038977405319892" target="_blank">+Robert Mayr</a> from Milan, the flights (we had to take three before landing in Charleston) were pretty uneventful, except in the middle of the ocean I started to feel sick and when we finally arrived at the hotel I just had time for a shower before collapsing in the bed at about 8pm...</div>
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<b>Day 1.</b></div>
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Sickness was gone, but jet lag caught me with a 4.30am wake up :) Not to worry, I had plenty of time to shower, activate our USA SIMs (ReadySIM rocks!), sort some emails and prepare for the first day of Flock.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Everyone in the auditorium for the keynote</td></tr>
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After the customary "State of Fedora Address" by <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/116067024566254525344" target="_blank">+Robyn Bergeron</a> I went to <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/103763147500173410163" target="_blank">+Matthew Miller</a> talk about Cloud and why Fedora should care about it (very well presented and informative), then <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/106265217227408958782" target="_blank">+Jon Masters</a> with 64 bit ARM goodness (but sadly, not the pile of devices I hoped to see :), and finally <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/112174839778779720402" target="_blank">+Jiří Eischmann</a> with the other Ambassadors for some updates on the program. In the afternoon, some more ARM related talk with <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/117898952501074015902" target="_blank">+Peter Robinson</a> where I could check a couple of XO laptops and finally the HyperKitty Hackfest with <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/100392733476771404089" target="_blank">+Aurélien Bompard</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">XO laptops @ Flock</td></tr>
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Day one ended at the Blind Tiger Pub, with lots of nice food and beer (if you picked the right one :P) and plenty of hallway chat.</div>
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<b>Day 2.</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SELinux for mere mortals. That's me!</td></tr>
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The second day I picked very good sessions: after the fun keynote from <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/117469832777191576536" target="_blank">+Aeva Palecek</a> of <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/103627098852031010432" target="_blank">+Lulzbot.com</a>, I went to see <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/107050082783087737978" target="_blank">+Thomas Cameron</a> talking about SELinux and how to properly handle it: this was so interesting I will probably make up slides for the same talk but in italian. We will see...</div>
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The rest of the morning was devoted to OpenShift with talks from <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/105393717919086396942" target="_blank">+steven citron-pousty</a> and <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/113756110022851689991" target="_blank">+Andy Grimm</a>, if you see them around in any conference do not miss their talk!</div>
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In the afternoon I joined the OpenStack test event to see how I could install it on my laptop; regrettably, in the end I was not able to have have a working setup (the development version I installed was not playing well with SELinux enabled) and spent some time to track and undo all the changes to the system.</div>
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The evening event was at <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/117641353213713547733" target="_blank">+Mynt Charleston</a>, a nice and trendy disco bar that was really, really appreciated by most people.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tasting Moonshine at Mynt</td></tr>
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<b>Day 3.</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stairs to the auditorium</td></tr>
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Started up by a keynote from <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/107256173895795146408" target="_blank">+Dave Crossland</a>, initial author of the Cantarell font used by default in GNOME3, the third day got into gear with <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/115819830501973935613" target="_blank">+Tom Callaway</a> and his proposal to revamp how we deliver updates by default. Discussion was vibrant and productive, I think we will do much better with a revised system. I ended the morning with the ambassadors related talk by <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/114008335300241090782" target="_blank">+Christoph Wickert</a>, where we drafted the plan for running a census of active ambassadors and encourage new ones to join the program.</div>
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In the afternoon, I joined <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/105678750365920420768" target="_blank">+Luke Macken</a> for the Bodhi hackfest and this turned out as one the most productive sessions: in fact, thanks to Mathieu Bridon I was quickly able to install the dev environment and start hacking on the filtering code, and the next day I had my <a href="https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/pull/8">pull request merged</a> in the repository!</div>
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The last evening event was at the <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/102709790096767388893" target="_blank">+South Carolina Aquarium</a>, with a spectacular dinner surrounded by fishes and other wildlife animals, I think an evening most people will hardly forget.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-60124623618117800182013-08-21T14:04:00.000+02:002013-08-23T10:37:01.844+02:00Flock 2013 Charleston (SC) Report (Robert Mayr)Flock was hold from august 9th to 12th and was the first Conference in a new format, replacing the FUDCons we all appreciated over the last years. It was attended by nearly two hundred Fedora Contributors and although it was the first very big event it was a great success. But let's start from the beginning.<br />
The journey to Charleston was as expected, very long but without problems, with Gianluca I got there through Frankfurt and Atlanta, where we met also Jiri, Sirko, Patrick and Gergely. Once arrived Josh offered us a ride to our hotel (thank you again)<br />
The first day, after registration, we followed Robyn's keynotes and took the group foto.<br />
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Then the sessions started; we mainly had a lot of talks in the morning and longer sessions or hackfests in the afternoon. Perhaps we had too many talks (up to seven or eight) at the same time, and often it was really difficult to choose one, because they were all interesting. I decided to attend most of the talks about Cloud computing, Openshift and ARM.<br />
Matthew introduced all the attendees to the Cloud and it was really interesting for me; I didn't know so much about it and therefore appreciated his simple explanation. We have to focus much more on Cloud in the future, and the talks I saw at Flock about Cloud confirmed it giving me also concrete numbers.<br />
Another interesting talk held by Steven was about Openshift (once in your life you have to attend a talk of Steven, awesome), and as a web developer I really liked his presentation. I never used it before, but in the meanwhile I got an account and will run my first application soon :)<br />
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In the evening we had cool parties, a lot of discussions with other contributors about Fedora while drinking beer or eating hummus.<br />
The second day I attended Christoph's talk about alternative Desktops, it was very well done although unfortunately Dan or other guys were not there to discuss more about Mate or other Desktops. Actually we have a lot of DE, and some of them perhaps don't have a really future, but on the other hand there are a lot of people using a specific DE in certain parts of the world, so let's see what happens in the next two years.<br />
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The third day was dedicated to the ambassadors, Jiri talked about the actual state and the FAmSCo activity, Tuan about the budget and Christoph about some old stats, comparing them with actual numbers.<br />
From all these talks started a discussion about what to do with inactive ambassadors, a horse we have beaten to death in the last years. We decided to not remove them but to mark them as inactive, as the activity of an ambassador can't be measured easily. Ambassadors also should be part of other Groups and contribute, which should increase the probability they will remain active. We also agreed on the ambassador census, to be done with a small form we already created at the EMEA FAD last year, and which now will be extended to the other Regions.<br />
We also talked about a new application, where we'd like to locate all ambassadors on a map, same for the events and parties we have around the world. In a second step this app should also take over the content of fedoracommunity.org, giving the local communities more visibility. Fedocal could be included easily and for sure will help us to manage the events better. Stay tuned, I hope we can have soon an instance running on Openshift (yes, my new account..).<br />
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The third evening was at the Aquarium, a great place where we could finally see the Atlantic Ocean and the long caracteristic bridge of Charleston.<br />
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The last day was dedicated to hackfests, I signed my GPG key and attended the Infra hackfest. At the end we had time to get an awesome sandwich and before returning back to Italy we also did some shopping for our family at home.<br />
Many thanks to all the organization team, Flock was a very nice event and I'm looking forward to Flock 2 in Europe next year. Perhaps it would be a good idea to limit the talks to max 4 or 5 at the same time and to organize more practical sessions and hackfests.<br />
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The event was hosted with the local LUG in small but cute Pizzeria in the suburbs of the city. About 20 people showed up and, while most already knew me and the Fedora Project from past events, there were few new faces so I spent some time specifically with them discussing what Fedora is all about.</div>
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Brand new Fedora 19 DVDs were distributed (thanks Jiri!) and we also attempted (and succeeded :) an installation in a laptop so we could have a look at how the liveDVD works (very well!), appreciate how anaconda is still confusing in the manual partitioning (but getting better overall) and missed a few strings in the Italian translation (we need a more active l10n group!), and finally enjoy Gnome 3.8.</div>
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After the dinner, I run a small raffle with three prizes: a Fedora t-shirt, a baseball cap and a mug. Everyone enjoyed the prizes and appreciated the great quality of all the swag I had.</div>
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Finally, my friend Riccardo made a presentation/hands-on of OpenShift, showing how you can quickly build and deploy a Flask/MongoDB app in the cloud serving open geodata.</div>
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Thanks to <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/112549283817875006782" target="_blank">+Riccardo Vianello</a> for the great introduction to <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/108052331678796731786" target="_blank">+OpenShift</a>, and all the <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/114822762152200976632" target="_blank">+Associazione GNU/Linux User Group Perugia</a> crew for the support. Special thanks to <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/112174839778779720402" target="_blank">+Jiří Eischmann</a> for handling the swag shipment so we could enjoy it at the party.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-56945418718924722042013-04-01T00:31:00.000+02:002013-04-01T00:31:01.077+02:00Gnome Terminal 3.8<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZkFRAIaSDInGWYwbNM0TEpIz8OMRDWq6aw5FMVHLRFue0cOEgeAv7n_C51A798vVyJ0GolFUdJRuFPMJK36XdG-cBaCehEqynjnrURE8SmrRj4V_mHSIMUUxGuoVrNod7pqFjCx3D_6J/s1600/gnome-terminal.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZkFRAIaSDInGWYwbNM0TEpIz8OMRDWq6aw5FMVHLRFue0cOEgeAv7n_C51A798vVyJ0GolFUdJRuFPMJK36XdG-cBaCehEqynjnrURE8SmrRj4V_mHSIMUUxGuoVrNod7pqFjCx3D_6J/s320/gnome-terminal.png" /></a>Se siete utenti di Gnome e usate il terminale, probabilmente avrete notato che quando si apre una nuova tab (ctrl-shift-t) o una nuova finestra (ctrl-shift-n) queste vengono automaticamente posizionate nella directory corrente della finestra iniziale.<br />
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In Gnome 3.8 questo non succede più.<br />
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Prima che vi venga la schiuma alla bocca, questa mi sembra una ottima occasione per evidenziare alcune problematiche relative al (rapido) sviluppo di Gnome.<br />
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Prima cosa, gli utenti possono essere informati meglio: la modifica, di cui ho rintracciato il <a href="https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/commit/?id=cf3cad8764d770c24a180fd86e2b2375fe62b9be">commit</a>, è del Giugno 2012. Il <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675987">bug relativo</a>, di Maggio. Quindi perchè viene fuori solo ora?<br />
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Sebbene non sia un grosso problema, penso che una modifica del genere andrebbe meglio pubblicizzata perchè la maggior parte degli utenti comuni magari neanche se ne accorgerà, ma tutti quelli avanzati di certo non mancheranno di notarlo e lamentarsene ad alta voce.<br />
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Detto questo come si fa ad avere il comportamento precedente? Molto semplice, basta aggiungere al file ~/.bashrc la linea:<br />
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Fatelo subito, non perderete tempo a cercare questo articolo quando la 3.8 arriverà sui vostri PC :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-17719630116197527942013-03-09T18:48:00.000+01:002013-03-09T23:30:47.134+01:00Fedora 18 Release Party Naples<br />
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This is a "guest" post from Ambassador candidate Francesco Daria who organized a nice release Party in Naples. Well done, and I hope he will be accepted in the Ambassadors group very soon.<br />
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On March 5th, 2013, the NaLUG in collaboration with the Italian Fedora Community hosted the Fedora 18 Release Party; location of the event was the Faculty of Engineering "Federico II" of Naples.<br />
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To promote and discuss the new version of Fedora "Spherical Cow" the day was split in two phases:<br />
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-The first was held in the atrium of the faculty, a strategic position able to catch the attention of all the people and promote the events of the day; we delivered the program and invited the curious to try and install Fedora distributing the DVD.<br />
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About 3,000 students every day come to the University and we were able to attract, through this space, the focus of about 1/3 of these, which curiously asked information about topics ranging from "What is Fedora?" to more specific technical problems.<br />
To entice newcomers to try Fedora, we gave them the MultiDesktop DVD with the possibility of a "help desk" support.<br />
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-The second was held at the home university classroom where we carried out the following activities:<br />
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-Fedora contest, which consisted in fixing errors in a simple bash script (you can find it at <a href="http://www.nalug.net/contest/FRPcontest">http://www.nalug.net/contest/FRPcontest</a>), the winners were awarded with the new Fedora branded baseball caps and cups.<br />
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- A Talk by Giuseppe Del Vecchio (aka Virus on the Italian comunity of Fedoraonline.it), who with his great know-how and communication skills was able to engage participants on the following themes:<br />
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- What is Fedora?<br />
- The history of Fedora releases<br />
- The Fedora Project<br />
- The Italian comunity fedoraonline.it<br />
- Install / upgrade to Fedora 18<br />
- Introduction to SELinux and systemd<br />
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At the end of the talk, which lasted about an hour and a half, we gave the attendees the opportunity for discussion, further clarifications and details. This choice led to a pleasant and interesting discussion.<br />
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- Coffee break: to make the day more "appetizing" and to stimulate thoughts, we offered all attendees free croissants and drinks.<br />
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-Install party: after the presentation we obviously gave support to all those who wanted to install Fedora 18 or upgrade their system from Fedora 17.<br />
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It was a great day, many people learned about Fedora, others were able to deepen their knowledge of the Project and the community, so I can say, not without a touch of pride, that our goal has been fully achieved. I take this opportunity to thank again Giuseppe Del Vecchio and the NaLUG's team for the possibility to introduce people to Fedora. <br />
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I hope this was the first of a long collaboration.<br />
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I just uploaded to my fedorapeople space <a href="http://giallu.fedorapeople.org/rdkit-2012.12/">RPM packages for RDKit newest release</a>. These are for Fedora 18 and EPEL 6, 64 bit only. Just ping me if you need 32 bit or Fedora 17 builds.<br />
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This package is in the <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804125">Fedora review queue</a> since some time so if you are a packager please consider helping to finish the review. Of course I can review something for you in return.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-6801365846756023242013-01-21T10:14:00.002+01:002013-01-21T10:14:29.055+01:00Anaconda "fun" momentI suspect Anaconda was not ever run by anyone in a non-English language during the Fedora 18 cycle, otherwise I can not explain this:<br />
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Una delle esigenze che si hanno spesso nell'utilizzo di un computer, riguarda il riconoscimento automatico dei testi a partire dalle immagini digitali (<a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riconoscimento_ottico_dei_caratteri"><b>OCR</b></a>).<br />
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La combinazione <i>"engine-frontend"</i> che per l'esperienza che ho avuto funziona meglio su Fedora, è questa:<br />
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L'engine: <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_%28software%29"><b>Tesseract</b></a><br />
<i>Installazione:</i> yum install tesseract tesseract-langpack-ita<br />
<br />
Tesseract è un software inizialmente proprietario e sviluppato anni fa dall'HP, ora è distribuito con Licenza Apache ed è sponsorizzato da Google. E' un engine molto potente e versatile, permette il riconoscimento dei testi con una miriade di lingue, tra cui anche l'Italiano.<br />
<i>Limitazioni:</i> così com'è, può essere utilizzato solo da riga di comando e permette solo la lettura di immagini Tiff, difetto risolvibile con la gui giusta.<br />
L'altra limitazione è il mancato riconoscimento del layout delle pagine. <br />
<br />
Il front-end: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimagereader/"><b>gImageReader</b></a><br />
<i>Installazione:</i> scegliere la versione più recente e scaricare l'RPM da <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimagereader/files/">qui</a> (va bene anche quello per F15).<br />
<br />
gImageReader è una semplice interfaccia grafica per Tesseract la quale, tra l'altro, permette di utilizzare anche immagini che non siano in formato Tiff.<br />
Il programma è minimale, ma permette di fare il riconoscimento dei testi senza troppe complicazioni.<br />
L'immagine sorgente può essere manipolata direttamente dal programma per migliorarne il riconoscimento (tramite contrasto, luminosità...), l'output infine può essere salvato su un file di testo.<br />
<br />Paolo Leonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02470648780650929020noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-54924792164020433602012-12-17T17:44:00.001+01:002012-12-17T17:44:13.445+01:00FAD EMEA 2012 RheinfeldenFor the first time since I become a Fedora Ambassador, I participated to the <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_EMEA_2012">2012 EMEA FAD</a>, traditionally hosted by <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Geroldka">Gerold Kassube</a> in Rheinfelden (Germany), in the wonderful Beuggen Castle.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Main body and chapel at the Beuggen Castle</td></tr>
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Now, as a mountain lover, I have few expectations from a trip through Switzerland: one is great landscapes, the other is snow. I was not disappointed on both accounts!<br />
In fact, despite the Rheinfelden region is usually not very cold, we were welcome by nice snowfall. Of course that made it harder to reach Rheinfelden (me, <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mailga">Gabriele</a> and <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Robyduck">Robert</a> shared a car from Milan) but it also meant we woke up on Saturday in this environment:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Almost magical...</td></tr>
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If you have not even been in a FAD you may now wonder what it looks like; basically, it is the place where Ambassadors discuss current issues, identify potential improvements and try to come up with a plan to reach goals. In the process, if anything turns out to be broken, we fix it right away.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.christoph-wickert.de/blog/2012/12/09/fad-emea-wrap-up/">Christoph made already</a> a <a href="http://www.christoph-wickert.de/blog/2012/12/08/fad-emea-day-1/">nice summary</a> of the main points we touched during the event. In particular, I would like to note we will be trying to expand the range of Fedora branded goods to give away (as swag or otherwise). We also discussed several other items, like the need for more local events, and an expansion of the new Ambassadors mentoring program so new guys will find an easier way into the project. Additionally, we will be run a census among our fellow Ambassadors to understand how they feel about the program, what they are doing and what the project could do to help them more.<br />
Finally, we will encourage all Ambassadors to host an annual get-together type of event in their own country in order to have a tighter local community.<br />
<br />
Of course, no FAD is complete with a solid social part. In this case, the real treat was the dinner we consumed on Saturday at the <a href="http://www.blindekuh.ch/en/blindekuh_basel/">blindekuh</a> (blind cow) restaurant.<br />
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The main feature there is a large dining room completely surrounded by thick, black drapes so the room is in absolute darkness. For good measure, you have to leave in storage cabinets at the entrance everything that can emit light.<br />
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Luckily enough, reaching your seat and getting your food to the table is not a problem because <b>waiters are blind</b>, but managing to keep calm and consume your dinner is another story! This was a really strong experience and after a while I started to feel a bit weird, something in between drunk and scared. Of course, I was also consuming beer but I'm sure the darkness was to blame...<br />
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All in all, my first FAD was a great experience and I look forward to next year for another one. I would also like to thank all the FAD participants for a fun and productive week end: in particular Gerold for organizing our stay and for the great dinner at blindekuh, and Gabriele for driving 5 hours straight in the snow with his brand new winter tires.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-65176930830391081962012-12-13T18:17:00.000+01:002012-12-13T18:17:19.784+01:00LinuxCon 2012 Barcelona ReportI am happy to host the report from the latest Italian Ambassador joining the program, <b>Giuseppe Palestra</b>, who broke the ice by participating to the LinuxCon 2012 in Barcellona. Well done Giuseppe!<br />
<hr /><br />
<b>LinuxCon 2012 Barcelona Report</b><br />
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The conference started at 8:00 am with registration of attendees. Me and <br />
the other fedora ambassadors (Alvaro and Ruth) arranged the booth and at <br />
9:00am keynotes started. After the keynotes we waited at the booth for <br />
contacting the conference visitors. After the keynotes I started <br />
presenting myself to other people close to our booth, Red Hat people or <br />
correlated Fedora Project people principally. There were a lot of <br />
interesting talks during this day but I decided to partecipate only to a <br />
little subset; the most interesting for me in LinuxCon was "Virtual <br />
Machine snapshots: Overview and Illustration of Different Types of <br />
Snapshots With libvirt/QEMU". In this day started also the Embedded <br />
Linux Conference Europe 2012 and for me the most interesting talk was <br />
The PF_ZIO: Using Network Frames to Convey I/O Data and Meta-Data hold <br />
by an italian professor Alessandro Rubini. <br />
<br />
A lot of stickers and about 30 DVD (Fedora 17) was distributed in this day. <br />
<br />
<b>6th November </b><br />
<br />
The second day starts with keynotes at 9:00 am and at the end me and <br />
other ambassadors were ready to speak with a lot of people at the <br />
booth. People were very interested to our OLPC XO with Fedora, people <br />
tried our operating system and appreciate it. In this day I follow 3 <br />
talks and the most interesting i for me were "Introduction to oVirt <br />
Virtualization Management Platform." In the afternoon I attended the <br />
dinner offered by Intel, at the dinner all attendees got surprised by <br />
the participation of Linus Torvalds. :) <br />
<br />
About 30 DVD distributed. <br />
<br />
My experience at the booth of Fedora Project has ended, but my <br />
commitment will continue...I knew a lot of enthusiastic fedora people, <br />
especially from Italia, Russia, Finland, USA and with some of these I <br />
entertain relationships about Fedora by email. <br />
I will hope to attend at other conferences to see again the interesting <br />
people I met in Barcelona. <br />
Special thanks to Ruth and Alvaro. <br />
<br />
Giuseppe<br />
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which is usually defined in ~/.bashrc like this:<br />
<pre>PS1='[\u@\h \W$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")]\$ '
</pre>In case you don't know it, the __git_ps1 is a handy function provided by the git package to show relevant git repository information (branch name, merge status, etc) right at the prompt.<br />
<br />
For instance, this is what the prompt looks like when I cd into a git checkout:<br />
<pre>[giallu@qbert gittest (master)]$
</pre>Today, after updating one of my development boxes to (the not yet released, but we're getting there...) Fedora 18, I started seeing this error in all my terminals:<br />
<pre>bash: __git_ps1: command not found
[giallu@qbert ~]$
</pre>I found that the problem is caused by the move of the __git_ps1 function, from /etc/bash_completion.d/git to /usr/share/git-core/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh<br />
<br />
So, in order to fix the issue, you just need to edit your bashrc like this:<br />
<pre>. /usr/share/git-core/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
PS1='[\u@\h \W$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")]\$ '
</pre>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-68595076894350830402012-11-26T08:47:00.002+01:002012-11-26T14:27:42.225+01:00Fedora: il significato dei nomi in codice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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E' notizia di pochi giorni fa che il nome in codice scelto per Fedora 19 sarà <b>Schrodinger's Cat</b>, un <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradosso_del_gatto_di_Schr%C3%B6dinger">celebre esperimento mentale</a> utilizzato per spiegare uno dei paradossi della meccanica quantistica. <br />
<br />
E' usanza piuttosto comune utilizzare un nome in codice (oltre al numero di versione) per caratterizzare i rilasci delle distribuzioni Linux.<br />
<br />
<br />
Per quanto riguarda Fedora la proposta e la scelta del nome in codice per ogni versione avvengono democraticamente, e in alcuni casi influisce anche sul tema grafico utilizzato.<br />
<br />
La regola di selezione per i nomi in codice di Fedora è la seguente:<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><il nuovo nome> è ..... , così come <il vecchio nome></b></div>
<br />
Ovvero dev'esserci un legame tra il nome vecchio e quello nuovo, senza particolari vincoli sulle aree tematiche trattate.<br />
<br />
Ecco quindi come si può passare agevolmente da nomi di città tedesche a navi antiche o ad esperimenti mentali... basta rispettare la regola.<br />
<br />
La procedura di selezione inizia molti mesi prima del rilascio, quando tutti gli utenti registrati aggiungono le loro proposte nel wiki. Per esempio, la <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_19">pagina per Fedora 19</a> ne elenca ben 101! Poi la <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board">Fedora Board</a> fa una prima scrematura della lista eliminando tutti quelli che non rispettano le condizioni poste. I nomi rimasti, vengono inviati e vagliati da un team di legali della Red Hat per evitare che si incappi in un qualche marchio registrato o comunque problematico. Infine, i nomi che superano tutte questi ostacoli, entrano in un ballottaggio a cui partecipano solo i contributori del progetto Fedora.<br />
Alla fine dalla votazione, <a href="http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-November/003117.html">viene decretato il nome della release</a>.<br />
<br />
Per chi fosse curioso, qui di seguito potete trovare l'intera lista di nomi in codice utilizzati da Fedora, più l'elenco delle loro connessioni...<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora Core 1: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">"Yarrow"
è una pianta utilizzata in passato per aromatizzare la
birra.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora Core 2:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Tettnang" ha a che fare con la birra (<i>è una città
tedesca nella quale viene prodotto il luppolo</i>), <b>così come</b> "Yarrow".</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora Core 3:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Heidelberg" è una città tedesca, <b>così come</b> "Tettnang".</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora Core 4:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Stentz" è un ente commerciale che vende alcolici, <b>così come</b>
"Heidelberg" (<i>"Heidelberg" è anche una marca di
birra</i>).</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora Core 5:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Bordeaux" è un ente commerciale che ha a che fare col vino francese,
<b>così come Stentz</b> (<i>Stentz è una cantina francese</i>).</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora Core 6:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Zod" è un personaggio della DC Comics, <b>così come
</b>"Bordeaux".</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora 7:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Moonshine" è un'etichetta musicale indipendente, <b>così
come</b> "Zod".</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora 8:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Werewolf" è il nome di un film, <b>così come</b> "Moonshine".</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>
</div>
</li>
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<b>Fedora 9:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Suplhur" è un elemento che reagisce chimicamente a
contatto con l'argento, <b>così come</b> "Werewolf" (<i>trad. "Licantropo"</i>). </span></div>
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<b>Fedora 10:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Cambridge" è una città, così come "Sulphur"
(<i>Cambridge era anche il nome che doveva avere Red Hat 10, prima di diventare
Fedora Core </i>1). </span></div>
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<b>Fedora 11:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Leonidas" era una nave della marina dell'Unione (1800),
<b>così come</b> "Cambridge". </span></div>
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<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora 12:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Constantine" è una cittadina del Michigan, <b>così come</b>
"Leonidas". </span></div>
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<b>Fedora 13:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Goddard" era uno studioso pioniere della missilistica moderna,
<b> così come</b> "Constantine" (Konstantin Tsiolkovsky). </span></div>
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<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora 14:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Laughlin" era un professore di Fisica, <b>così come
</b>"Goddard". </span></div>
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<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora 15:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Lovelock" è una città del Nevada,<b> così come</b>
"Laughlin". </span></div>
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<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora 16:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Verne" era un futurologo, <b>così come</b> "Lovelock". </span></div>
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<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora 17:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Beefy Miracle" è stato uno dei nomi suggeriti per Fedora
16, <b>così come</b> "Verne" (<i>quando venne proposto per F16 il legame era "...è una stringa
la quale, applicando un particolare codice informatico, fornisce 5
come risultato, così come la stringa "Lovelock"</i>). </span></div>
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<b>Fedora 18:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"Spherical Cow" è qualcosa che non è mai stato osservato
fino ad ora, <b>così come</b> "Beefy Miracle". </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>
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</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b>Fedora 19:</b> "Schrodinger's
Cat" è un esperimento mentale, <b>così come </b>"Spherical
Cow". </div>
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</li>
</ul>
Paolo Leonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02470648780650929020noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-27311539183243689262012-11-05T09:53:00.002+01:002012-11-05T09:53:28.802+01:00Fedora 18: un parto travagliato<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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E' notizia ufficiale di pochi giorni fa che <b>la Beta di Fedora 18 subirà un ulteriore ritardo</b> dovuto alla incompleta implementazione di Anaconda (l'installer del sistema) il quale, ricordiamo, in questa versione ha subito una <b>riscrittura totale</b>.<br />
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Al momento si sta tentando di non far slittare ulteriormente anche le altre milestones, motivo per cui la data di rilascio della final release<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/Schedule"> è rimasta l'11 Dicembre</a>. Tuttavia, per come stanno attualmente le cose, non è da escludere che anche quest'ultima data subisca un cambiamento. Addirittura c'è chi ha suggerito di tagliare la testa al toro e far slittare la release di un mese o due, così da creare un lasso di tempo più realistico per il completamento e la stabilizzazione di questo componente così importante.<br />
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Fedora 18, oltre che per le <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/FeatureList">interessanti features</a> incluse, sarà senz'altro ricordata per uno dei cicli di sviluppo più lunghi della sua storia (solo Fedora Core 5 ebbe un ciclo più lungo, ma quello di allora era stato deciso a priori), ciò significherà anche che <b>Fedora 16</b> verrà supportata <i>un po' più a lungo</i>.<br />
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Nella mailing list dedicata agli sviluppatori è nata un'interessante discussione sulle motivazioni di questo situazione e su come potrebbe essere migliorato il processo affinché non capiti più in futuro.<br />
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Tra le proposte, quella di passare ad una filosofia <i>rolling release</i>, oppure di utilizzare uno schema di rilasci di tipo "debian" (ramo stabile, testing e instabile).<br />
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Una cosa è certa: dallo sviluppo di Fedora 18 potrebbero nascere cambiamenti molto importanti per l'organizzazione e lo sviluppo del sistema.<br />
<br />Paolo Leonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02470648780650929020noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-1444403796430596052012-10-29T19:06:00.000+01:002012-10-29T23:37:04.303+01:00FAD Milano reportWe held the<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_LinuxDayMi_2012"> FAD event in Milano</a> last Saturday, where a few Italian Fedora contributors gathered to show interested users and wannabe how to participate to various teams of the Fedora Project.<br />
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In particular, we had Andrea Veri (infrastructure), Robert Mayr (websites), Samuel Iuri (design), Mario Santagiuliana (localization) talking about how their teams work. Moreover, a talk about contributing to the kernel development was held by Federico Vaga and Massimiliano Bugni shown how to handle Fedora respins both for home and office usage.<br />
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About me, I tried to quickly describe the importance of packaging for the whole distribution, then invited interested parties to gather in another room for a practical session. For this, I restructured an older presentation I gave about packaging, adding more workshop type material from both Tom Callaway and Miroslav Suchy. The resulting practical session lasted well beyond the original schedule of one hour, but I think it was well received, and the few but very interested users asked many questions and raised interesting topics for further discussion.<br />
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The event run along with the Linux Day, the main FOSS event in Italy held in more than 100 cities. With this arrangement we hoped to gather more participants as a result, but in the end this did not really work as expected. However, I quickly counted about 30 'heads' just before my introduction so in the end I think we see the glass half full and be happy for putting together a great team. I'm sure we will be able to do more wonderful events in the future!<br />
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Of course, no event is complete without a good team dinner. And in fact we had a nice one, where we commented the day and discussed plans for the next events in front of pizza and beers. Like these:<br />
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<b>My personal PRO/CON list</b><br />
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PRO: location. Very nice and spacious. I think it was evaluated for the 2011 FUDCon in Milan but for some reason it did not work.<br />
PRO: presenters. I never saw them in 'action'<br />
PRO: organization. Marina and Gabriele anticipated every possible need, so the sessions run smoothly.<br />
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CON: concurrency. We need to try it again on a different date, without competing with other Linux related events in other cities (this surely prevented some contributors from traveling)<br />
CON: the University have a policy of 'no signs out of bullettin boards'. This made directing the people to the event more difficult than it should be. We could buy some outdoor standing Fedora banners, and use them to direct people in cases like this.<br />
CON: tight schedule. Practical sessions lasts longer than regular talks, so we were forced to do it concurrently with other talks. I hope next time we can do a full day event with a single track so people do not need to pick just one (and I will not miss friends' talks!)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-44327043513027878982012-10-26T10:20:00.000+02:002012-10-26T10:20:50.337+02:00Fedora al Linux Day 2012Ci siamo. Domani è il giorno del <a href="http://www.linuxday.it/">Linux Day 2012 in tutta Italia</a>.<br />
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Qualche settimana fa avevo <a href="http://morefedora.blogspot.com/2012/09/materiale-fedora-per-linux-day-2012.html">proposto di inviare materiale marketing Fedora</a> a chi ne avesse fatto richiesta. Oggi sono felice ti confermare che potrete trovare il nostro materiale ufficiale (come quello che vedete qua sopra) ai seguenti eventi.<br />
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Non fateveli scappare!<br />
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Milano<br />
Torino<br />
Roma<br />
Napoli<br />
Teramo<br />
Cremona<br />
Imperia Oneglia<br />
Enna<br />
Tito (Potenza)<br />
Avola<br />
Lonate Pozzolo<br />
Ivrea<br />
Urbino<br />
Inzago<br />
Perugia<br />
Orvieto<br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153554158754437579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8289133884257433530.post-11911694255481086472012-10-24T09:00:00.000+02:002012-10-24T10:59:19.912+02:00Fedora 18: Yum non aspetterà più PackageKit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A quanti di noi è capitato almeno una volta di dare un comando a Yum per vederlo in attesa a causa di PackageKit?<br />
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Personalmente a me accade abbastanza spesso.<br />
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Finalmente, grazie ad <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Elad">Elad Alfassa</a>, da Fedora 18 ciò non accadrà più, poiché grazie ad una patch è stato corretto <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812938">questo fastidioso bug</a>.<br />
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Il nuovo comportamento prevede che Yum abbia la precedenza, quindi, anche se PackageKit sta svolgendo un'operazione, verrà sospeso per permettervi di operare separatamente con Yum.<br />
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A mio parere un altro piccolo, grande miglioramento per Fedora.Paolo Leonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02470648780650929020noreply@blogger.com2