Rawhide week 2013-05-28
Another week of rawhide. Only one issue really stands out from this week: The kernel switched to using a script provided by systemd to install. See: http://jwboyer.livejournal.com/47131.html for the...
View Articlerawhide for 2013-06-04
Another very dull week in rawhide. No particular breakage or issues here. I’ve been on the latest 3.10 rc3 kernel and since it’s an RC the debugging is off, so its been nice and fast. I did play around...
View ArticleDistributions vs applications: Fight!
After reading http://groveronline.com/2013/06/fedora-for-servers/ and the comments on lwn ( https://lwn.net/Articles/552800/ ) I thought I would share some thoughts on this. First, I agree with Andy...
View ArticleRawhide week in review 2013-06-11
Another week another rawhide review post. This week the main thing that stood out for me was the rsyslogd breakage. A new upstream version landed and it crashed on startup. ;( A bug was filed (...
View ArticleAttention Fedora 19 prerelease users
Fedora 19 is winding up to release soon, and so it’s that time in the cycle when a new fedora-release package pushes out that disables the fedora-updates-testing repository so folks who install after...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide 2013-06-25, a word about comps
So another week in rawhide without too much blowing up, however, astute folks might have noticed that there was no rawhide compose on 2013-06-21. This was due to a typo in the rawhide comps file. What...
View ArticleFedora 18 to 19 yum upgrade
With Fedora 19 being final (release is tuesday), I went and upgraded my main virthost and guest from Fedora 18 last night. I used fedup to upgrade a laptop and another machine, but as my main server is...
View ArticleFedora release days aren’t as frantic as they used to be, and why it’s mostly...
Folks who have been involved in the Fedora project for a long time may remember early releases where things were very frantic on release days. Servers and networks melting under downloads, eager users...
View ArticleAn Incomplete remembrance of a friend
As many folks may know, Seth Vidal was taken from us this last Monday Night. He will be dearly missed by many. He was part of many families: Fedora, Red Hat, Open Source community, Biking enthusiasts...
View Articlerawhide week(s) 2013-07-16 edition
Skipped a week there as there wasn’t much going on in the rawhide world, just rolling on. There’s a few oddities to mention this week however: On recent rawhide kernels, booting up results in no...
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