Category: Fedora
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Fedora on the Finnish metro
While browsing through Flickr, I noticed this photo, taken by darkismus: That’s an info screen from a metro train of the Helsinki metro. It says “Welcome to Fedora Core” on the screen and you can see the traditional Red Hat style init messages going on 🙂 Helsinki is the only city in Finland which has […]
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The Linux/FOSS desk at Assembly Summer 2008 – with Fedora
I’m currently blogging from the Assembly demoparty in Helsinki, Finland. The Finnish Linux User Group and the user communities of different distributions have organized a Linux/FOSS support desk here. We have three demo computers here, one is running Fedora with KDE4, the other is running Ubuntu with Gnome and the third is running Frets on […]
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Fedora 9: Fonts in KDE 4
I just spotted this thread in fedora-list about KDE and fonts. Apparently the default font in Fedora 9’s KDE 4 is Nimbus Sans L. I switched the font in my KDE to DejaVu Sans earlier – just like Kevin Kofler recommends – but forgot to write about it in my previous posts. This font looks […]
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My adventures with Fedora 9, part 2
I’ve updated my Smolt profile for the laptop, it’s here. Since this laptop has an Intel 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (I have no idea which one it actually is 😉 ), I tried kernel modesetting by adding i915.modeset=1 to the kernel boot line in /etc/grub.conf. At first it seemed to work just right and it […]
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My Fedora 9 upgrade story
I upgraded my laptop – an Asus S5A, Intel based – from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 today. I used the DVD and the upgrade itself went with no problems. But after I booted into Fedora 9, I’ve been having some problems with it. I used to use KDE in Fedora 8 and so I […]
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FLSCo Nominations
Dimitris threatened to poke me with a stick if I didn’t nominate myself for the Fedora Localization Steering Committee, so now I have. The elections will take place between the 14th and the 20th of April 2008. Please remember to vote, even if not for me 😉 . Fedora in general and also the L10N […]
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The Google Highly Open Participation Contest and MoinMoin
I haven’t blogged in a long time, but this is something I think deserves to be mentioned. Today Google announced The Google Highly Open Participation Contest, which is a program for pre-university students. They participate in some of the 10 open source projects and Google pays them a maximum of $500 for it. MoinMoin, the […]
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Weekly report: week 34
Last week was a lot about fighting with Texinfo. As I’ve probably said earlier as well, makeinfo –docbook is supposed to make DocBook XML. But it doesn’t really work that well. In the best case, it produces something that is well-formed XML but not really DocBook if you validate it against the DTD. Which means […]
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Weekly report: week 33
Last week introduced a lot of code cleanups, some of which will also hopefully save some memory. I also made a fix for one problem we had with my Fedora test environment, but I’m not sure if it’ll go to Moin main branch, as it seems Moin was meant to give up and crash at […]
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Weekly report: week 32
Last week I implemented support for translated man pages, fixed yet more bugs and did some serious code cleanups and refactoring as suggested by Thomas Waldmann and pylint. I got a public test wiki setup from the Fedora Infrastructure project, we spent about a day setting it up with Paulo Santos, also with some help […]