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Curse Fedora everytime and everywhere, but still you will be using their technologies in the future.
Whatever, I'm going to write will not please everyone, but still I'll do!
Recently in Februrary 2008, with other Fedora ambassadors and contributors we were at FOSDEM. Yes, yet again, we all wore our blue ambassador t-shirt with pride.
Everyone in the Fedora team talked pretty much what they do at the Fedora Project to the public and how important it is ( from koji, packaging, transifex, OLPC, translation, R, FEL .... ). Ok stop ! I should rephrase my sentence "how important it is for the users".
We had many visitors at the Fedora booth. Many were RHEL users and using Fedora at home. Compared to last year, this time, many RHEL users were gathering at the Fedora Booth and talking with us. It was rather fruitful to me listening to their needs, especially I'll soon join the real professional work life.
Nevertheless, I was fed up, but REALLY FED UP, with random comments such as:
" I quit fedora because of yum "
" I quit fedora because of selinux "
" I quit fedora because X, Y and Z "
" I quit fedora because fedora's KDE had always the bluecurve theme "
Ok, some people have different opinions. So I do, while talking politics. Well I ignored those comments.
Today, while having a glance to my rss feeds, what do I find ?
"Ubuntu Gets SELinux". I quickly flew over a few more words:
"This is the result of the amazing work of the ubuntu-security and ubuntu-hardened teams."
Ha, there is something wrong here !
First, some previous users quit fedora because of SELinux, in favour of Ubuntu which doesn't support it. But now Ubuntu gets SELinux ? Hmm who is not listening to its users ?
Second, this is the result of amazing work of DanWalsh and his colleagues. The credit goes to them, and NOT ubuntu-security and ubuntu-hardened teams.
I don't recall where I have seen this phrase, but it sounds truthfully true and I give credit to that writer.
In FedoraLand, people talk "Linux" and in UbuntuLand people talk "Ubuntu".
You might be thinking that I'm bashing, Ubuntu well no. I just don't find the Logic in it. After all there is no sense of community in the UbuntuLand.
Another thing I've noted at FOSDEM this year that, those who met me last year did stop by to say "hi, how are you doing ?" I did the same whenever I went to get myself a break or a drink. Now who are the ones who stopped by ? Those were CentOS guys, Opensuse, a kopete developer, AMSN developers(thanks for the t-shirt), some are unaffiliated.
Ok, let's slow down a moment, I think CentOS guys (Dag, Karanbir, Dries, and the guy with the white hair I met at Chemnitz2007 and FOSDEM) are a rock solid team.
The RPM family is really a family. If this isn't social, I don't know how to call it.
On Fedora IRC channels, Ubuntu guys need X, Y and Z on IRC, fedora guys simplify their life. Debian guys need something or patches from Fedora KDE contributors, Rex, Kevin and others give them.
Well after all, why can't there be ground for real collaboration and really community ? Ok, someone last time said "because you have Red Hat". What's the problem? I'm not a software engineer, but microelectronics, sometimes I need help to code other than VHDL and Tcl. Red Hat engineers (Rahul, Jesse, Jeremy, Max, to name a few) are there to give me that help I need. Please don't take that away from me. Yes, sometimes, some scolded me because of my stupid hacks to get something working, but I deserved those. At least I learnt pretty nice things from the Fedora community.
Have a look at this title Bet you didn't know Linux could do this!". In UbuntuLand, it would be called "Bet you didn't know Ubuntu could do this!".
If you are thinking that Fedora should be popping more "Fedora" words in their title, I think you are wrong ! While Fedora contributors think "community" and shaking hands with CentOS and OpenSuse, others are just having a glimpse at the windows and waiting the perfect time to steal.
Recently in Februrary 2008, with other Fedora ambassadors and contributors we were at FOSDEM. Yes, yet again, we all wore our blue ambassador t-shirt with pride.
Everyone in the Fedora team talked pretty much what they do at the Fedora Project to the public and how important it is ( from koji, packaging, transifex, OLPC, translation, R, FEL .... ). Ok stop ! I should rephrase my sentence "how important it is for the users".
We had many visitors at the Fedora booth. Many were RHEL users and using Fedora at home. Compared to last year, this time, many RHEL users were gathering at the Fedora Booth and talking with us. It was rather fruitful to me listening to their needs, especially I'll soon join the real professional work life.
Nevertheless, I was fed up, but REALLY FED UP, with random comments such as:
" I quit fedora because of yum "
" I quit fedora because of selinux "
" I quit fedora because X, Y and Z "
" I quit fedora because fedora's KDE had always the bluecurve theme "
Ok, some people have different opinions. So I do, while talking politics. Well I ignored those comments.
Today, while having a glance to my rss feeds, what do I find ?
"Ubuntu Gets SELinux". I quickly flew over a few more words:
"This is the result of the amazing work of the ubuntu-security and ubuntu-hardened teams."
Ha, there is something wrong here !
First, some previous users quit fedora because of SELinux, in favour of Ubuntu which doesn't support it. But now Ubuntu gets SELinux ? Hmm who is not listening to its users ?
Second, this is the result of amazing work of DanWalsh and his colleagues. The credit goes to them, and NOT ubuntu-security and ubuntu-hardened teams.
I don't recall where I have seen this phrase, but it sounds truthfully true and I give credit to that writer.
In FedoraLand, people talk "Linux" and in UbuntuLand people talk "Ubuntu".
You might be thinking that I'm bashing, Ubuntu well no. I just don't find the Logic in it. After all there is no sense of community in the UbuntuLand.
Another thing I've noted at FOSDEM this year that, those who met me last year did stop by to say "hi, how are you doing ?" I did the same whenever I went to get myself a break or a drink. Now who are the ones who stopped by ? Those were CentOS guys, Opensuse, a kopete developer, AMSN developers(thanks for the t-shirt), some are unaffiliated.
Ok, let's slow down a moment, I think CentOS guys (Dag, Karanbir, Dries, and the guy with the white hair I met at Chemnitz2007 and FOSDEM) are a rock solid team.
The RPM family is really a family. If this isn't social, I don't know how to call it.
On Fedora IRC channels, Ubuntu guys need X, Y and Z on IRC, fedora guys simplify their life. Debian guys need something or patches from Fedora KDE contributors, Rex, Kevin and others give them.
Well after all, why can't there be ground for real collaboration and really community ? Ok, someone last time said "because you have Red Hat". What's the problem? I'm not a software engineer, but microelectronics, sometimes I need help to code other than VHDL and Tcl. Red Hat engineers (Rahul, Jesse, Jeremy, Max, to name a few) are there to give me that help I need. Please don't take that away from me. Yes, sometimes, some scolded me because of my stupid hacks to get something working, but I deserved those. At least I learnt pretty nice things from the Fedora community.
Have a look at this title Bet you didn't know Linux could do this!". In UbuntuLand, it would be called "Bet you didn't know Ubuntu could do this!".
If you are thinking that Fedora should be popping more "Fedora" words in their title, I think you are wrong ! While Fedora contributors think "community" and shaking hands with CentOS and OpenSuse, others are just having a glimpse at the windows and waiting the perfect time to steal.
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Heads UP: FEL packages updates Release Notes
Heads up Fedora Electronic Lab users, after 4 months since the first Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD was released, there have been many enhancements, fixes and features on the FEL packages on both F-7 and F-8. Some of you in Asia have even bought a issue of YOU magazine along with a FEL spin.
For a long time, I wanted to write a page which describes the main features that any FEL user is taking full advantage, thanks to Fedora's quick development and release cycles. We understand your need to develop better products with better EDA tools.
Today, I can now show you that page and at the same time give credits to those involved in the development. This page entails various enhancements brought forward to FEL by Fedora SciTech SIG and all Uptreams.
We recommend users to update their FEL deployments in order to take advantage of those improvements, features and fixes.
For a long time, I wanted to write a page which describes the main features that any FEL user is taking full advantage, thanks to Fedora's quick development and release cycles. We understand your need to develop better products with better EDA tools.
Today, I can now show you that page and at the same time give credits to those involved in the development. This page entails various enhancements brought forward to FEL by Fedora SciTech SIG and all Uptreams.
We recommend users to update their FEL deployments in order to take advantage of those improvements, features and fixes.
Setting up Samba
Instructions for Fedora-Core using the Samba Web Administration Tool.
Instructions for Ubuntu.
Instructions for SUSE
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Ubuntu
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SuSE
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Fedora-Core
Fabless Semiconductor Business Model Presentation
Below you will find a presentation I made on how the free semiconductor business model can be attractive to academic institutions and research work.
31 Dec - Pictionary - Gnome Translate
Below is a "bougie finlandaise" fired by David und Hans für die New Year Eve.
I'm at Mirjam's parents' place in Switzerland (Swiss German part). Tonight, we played pictionary in german, but I neither speak nor understand German.
However Gnome-translate proved to be a very good asset and in the end my group (Mirjam, David and I) won the game.
I'm at Mirjam's parents' place in Switzerland (Swiss German part). Tonight, we played pictionary in german, but I neither speak nor understand German.
However Gnome-translate proved to be a very good asset and in the end my group (Mirjam, David and I) won the game.
tweak required to install Fedora on VMWare Server
edit the .vmx file by hand, and add a line to the file to indicate that you want to emulate a specific type of SCSI controller. absurd that users have to jump through these hoops, but there you go
Rawhide and KDE4's preparation
Since last week, the following packages were marked as "dead.package" for rawhide:
This means that they will be shipped with F-9 along with the KDE4 family and not as a separate package.
Kevin and Rex have already obsoleted these packages in the KDE4 packages in order to make yum update from F-8 to F-9 less painful. Well I recently upgraded from F-7 to F-8 WITHOUT any troubles.
If before F-9's release,:
* KDE3 icon sets
* KDE3 kwin decorators
haven't yet been ported to KDE4, I fear it would be time to obsolete them as well. So please, if you like a particular kwin decorator or kde3 icon set, please encourage upstream to port it. A mere simple mail to the developers might make you happy.
- kdmtheme kdmtheme has just had a bug fix release (1.2.2) for F-7 and F-8.
- marble
- d3lphin
- kalgebra
This means that they will be shipped with F-9 along with the KDE4 family and not as a separate package.
Kevin and Rex have already obsoleted these packages in the KDE4 packages in order to make yum update from F-8 to F-9 less painful. Well I recently upgraded from F-7 to F-8 WITHOUT any troubles.
If before F-9's release,:
* KDE3 icon sets
* KDE3 kwin decorators
haven't yet been ported to KDE4, I fear it would be time to obsolete them as well. So please, if you like a particular kwin decorator or kde3 icon set, please encourage upstream to port it. A mere simple mail to the developers might make you happy.
Fedora 8 & Skype: audio and webcam
With Skype 2.0 beta, one can now have webcam support.
chitlesh(~)$ rpm -q skype
skype-2.0.0.27-fc5
Mirjam got a Logitech Quickcam Chat as a Christmas present.
chitlesh(~)$ /sbin/lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:092e Logitech, Inc.
Use livna repository to install gspca for Webcam Kernel Module.
# yum install gspca
gspca-1.00.20-1.lvn8
kmod-gspca-2.6.23.9-85.fc8-1.00.20-1.lvn8
kmod-gspca-1.00.20-1.lvn8
For the first, as root type:
# modprobe gspca
Then launch the skype 2.0 beta.
I had an annoying problem with the headset I had. I could only hear my friend through only one ear. Googling a bit, showed that I should use plughw listed for sound in/out.
Now I have webcam and audio support for skype :)
chitlesh(~)$ rpm -q skype
skype-2.0.0.27-fc5
Mirjam got a Logitech Quickcam Chat as a Christmas present.
chitlesh(~)$ /sbin/lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:092e Logitech, Inc.
Use livna repository to install gspca for Webcam Kernel Module.
# yum install gspca
gspca-1.00.20-1.lvn8
kmod-gspca-2.6.23.9-85.fc8-1.00.20-1.lvn8
kmod-gspca-1.00.20-1.lvn8
For the first, as root type:
# modprobe gspca
Then launch the skype 2.0 beta.
I had an annoying problem with the headset I had. I could only hear my friend through only one ear. Googling a bit, showed that I should use plughw listed for sound in/out.
Now I have webcam and audio support for skype :)
Fedora Electronic Lab for 100$ ???
Well today, google alerts pointed to me a somehow great article on ReyesSoft Ports Open Source EDA Software to UNIX, even my name was listed on it.
Yes somehow, I'm a bit divided in 2 halves.
No, I'm not jealous of any other Fedora Electronic Lab like project. However I would welcome more people to work with me and upstream.
Reyesoft is shipping some of the packages of Fedora Electronic Lab for at least 100$ for different platform (windows, solaris, linux, macos), under the name 'OpenEDA Toolkit 1.0'.
Fedora ships the packages of Fedora Electronic Lab for FREE together with a complete FREE Operating System as well as free applications for daily usage. FEL supports i386, x86_64 and PPC
Strangely, googling 'Reyesoft points to an extensive press coverage. However, in all the mailing list I'm subscribed I didn't come across something about the development of any of those packages.
All I hope that Reyesoft is not dreaming to get big bucks like Red Hat without contributing to real open source communities. VLSI open source packages are way behind proprietary software so that a particular engineer could adopt it for real work. Can Reyesoft be part of the team who can drive us to this dream ?
Yes somehow, I'm a bit divided in 2 halves.
No, I'm not jealous of any other Fedora Electronic Lab like project. However I would welcome more people to work with me and upstream.
Reyesoft is shipping some of the packages of Fedora Electronic Lab for at least 100$ for different platform (windows, solaris, linux, macos), under the name 'OpenEDA Toolkit 1.0'.
Fedora ships the packages of Fedora Electronic Lab for FREE together with a complete FREE Operating System as well as free applications for daily usage. FEL supports i386, x86_64 and PPC
Strangely, googling 'Reyesoft points to an extensive press coverage. However, in all the mailing list I'm subscribed I didn't come across something about the development of any of those packages.
All I hope that Reyesoft is not dreaming to get big bucks like Red Hat without contributing to real open source communities. VLSI open source packages are way behind proprietary software so that a particular engineer could adopt it for real work. Can Reyesoft be part of the team who can drive us to this dream ?
FEL: gerbv 1.0.3
This is to announce the fourth release in the stable branch of gerbv, 1.0.3 was just built for Fedora and will be available shortly among the updates.
This release represents a point release incorporating a few patches made against the 1.0.X source over the last 1 1/2 years. Specific updates include:
Gerber Viewer (gerbv) is a viewer for Gerber files. Gerber files are generated from PCB CAD system and sent to PCB manufacturers as basis for the manufacturing process. The standard supported by gerbv is RS-274X.
This release represents a point release incorporating a few patches made against the 1.0.X source over the last 1 1/2 years. Specific updates include:
- Incorporate changes from Joost Witteveen to support extended %SR% commands.
- Fix endless loop bug when gerbv encountered an unknown % code. Patch from Joost Witteveen.
- Fixed initial scale setting for %MOMM% Gerber files. Patch from Joost Witteveen.
- Fixed format for small drillfiles. Patch from Trevor Blackwell.
- Fix setting of the initial window size when the screen is larger than the display. Patch from David Carr.
Gerber Viewer (gerbv) is a viewer for Gerber files. Gerber files are generated from PCB CAD system and sent to PCB manufacturers as basis for the manufacturing process. The standard supported by gerbv is RS-274X.
firefox: no sound on flash videos
It happens that when I installed the adobe flash-plugin for Firefox, libflashsupport was not among adobe flash plugin's dependencies.
Unfortunately without libflashsupport, there isn't any sound on flash videos.
If you are encountering the same issue, yum install libflashsupport from adobe flash repository.
Then test it with this video (Le Train pour Pau):
Video recommended by Guillaume Assens.
Unfortunately without libflashsupport, there isn't any sound on flash videos.
If you are encountering the same issue, yum install libflashsupport from adobe flash repository.
Then test it with this video (Le Train pour Pau):
Video recommended by Guillaume Assens.
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