Rawhide week in review (2013-10-22)
It’s been a few weeks since I posted a rawhide week in review. First I was very busy and there wasn’t all that much going on in rawhide, then I was on vacation. Now I’m back and there’s a fun little...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide (2013-10-29) edition
Another pretty quiet week in rawhide land. One thing that I noticed the other day was a package that had been updated in the Fedora 20 branched release, but not in rawhide. In the past there was some...
View ArticleThe tale of the screaming fan
A few weeks ago when I got back from vacation, I noticed (couldn’t help but notice) that one of the fans in my main server was making nasty dying ball berring noises. The computer room/library is down...
View ArticleAnother week in rawhide, early november edition
Rawhide continues to be nice and boring for the most part. Just a few things to note from the last week: There was an update to upower that bumped the api/abi. This broke a number of packages. Most of...
View ArticleFun with touchscreens and Linux
So, a little while ago I got a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro. This laptop has a touchscreen on it. I didn’t think I would pretty much ever use it, but it came along with the package. So, I decided to look around...
View ArticleAnother few weeks of rawhide
Another few weeks of rawhide and a few things to note: virt-manager continues to be broken. I had hopes that there was light at the end of the tunnel, but it seems not. It now starts up fine, but...
View ArticleUpdates-testing and final freeze time again
If you have a Fedora 20 install and updated recently, you may or may not have noticed that the updates-testing repo is now disabled. It’s enabled for testing during most of the pre-release cycle of...
View ArticleRolling Rolling Rolling…rawhide (2013-12-03 edition)
As of a few days ago, virt-manager is working again in rawhide. Crobinso tracked down the builds needed (a gtk3 and pygobject3 build). This just goes to show that bugs where there are a lot of...
View ArticleFedora 20 notes and links
Fedora 20 is released tomorrow! (16UTC) In the mean time a few notes: If you have installed a prerelease version at any point in the past: Thanks for helping us test! I hope you reported any bugs or...
View ArticleHoliday geeking so far
Well, we are a little less than 1/2 way through the holidays here (at least for me), and I thought I would post about some misc geekery I have been working on in between eating too much, watching...
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