Devan and I were chatting a bit about Fedora upgrades this morning. Given that he and I are both recovering debian users, we do miss (apparently) seamless live upgrades between releases. So following on the heels of Doug and Devan, here is my take on upgrades.
First, offline upgrades will always be required for some cases. [...]
On the subway ride home I played around with adding a progress bar to pkcon, PackageKit’s command line interface.
I’m quite certain this is the most worthwhile thing I’ve done this week.
Fedora People, rather than concerning yourself with who posts what in which language, how about using atom’s support for per-post language tagging and filtering the feed?
Here is an English language only Fedora People feed (courtesy Yahoo Pipes).
I like using gnome-terminal, but I find the default fonts hard on my eyes. So I don’t forget (and for anyone who is interested), here are the steps to use xterm’s default font in gnome-terminal:
As root, run `yum -y install bitmap-fonts`
As root, run `ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/`.
Close all open gnome-terminal windows.
Launch gnome-terminal and edit the [...]
Thanks to skvidal for adding me to Planet Fedora.
A bit about myself:
By day I work on Red Hat Network
By night I work on yum
My hackergotchi’s hair is not to scale.
system-summary is a little dialog window I whipped up (with help from Mr. Goodwin) after talking with Will Woods about how there is no one place you can send someone to give you basic information when they file a bug. The idea is that this will be launched from System/About This Computer.
system-summary will probably get [...]
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The brains and biceps of Fedora, originally uploaded by James Bowes.