Finally – and right in time for CLT – the Fedora 14 Media for EMEA have arrived! I was shocked 😯 when the guy opened his truck and revealed an euro 6 pallet. I didn’t expect 3000 media to be so much! Last time I got 1600, but they were in 4 parcels of 4 …
Autor-Archive: chris
Dear Fedora contributors
The spin-kickstarts repository is no self-service where you can just check in any random kickstart. If you want your kickstart file to be included in spin-kickstarts, please follow the spins process. Kind regards, your Spin Wrangler
Deemphasizing
From Fedora’s GNOME 3 feature page: Where has the appearance capplet gone? GNOME 3 is deemphasizing user customization, or ‘theming’ in favour of a ‘just works’ and ‘slick out of the box’ approach. Therefore, theme changes are no longer exposed in the core configuration UI, except for accessibility themes such as ‘High Contrast’ or ‘Inverse’, …
Xfce 4.8 for F14 now ready
I have updated my Xfce 4.8 repository at and it is fairly complete. Some packages however are now obsolete: thunar-shares-plugin: dead upstream, would needed to be ported from thunar-vfs to gvfs. xfce4-remmina-plugin: remmina now has a generic trayicon, however the new version is only available in F15 or my remmina backports repo. xfce4-stopwatch-plugin: dead upstream, …
FUDCon Tempe day 2
Day 2 of FUDCon was just as busy as day 1. First we continued with the talks and in the afternoon there were some lightning talks, before we actually started hacking.
FUDCon Tempe day 1
It’s already the second day of FUDCon and I am writing about yesterday. I was just too busy to blog.
FUDCon here we come!
Me and Jörg just arrived at Phoenix. It’s still some hours until we can check in at the Four Points Sheraton, so right now we are sitting in the lobby of the Courtyard Tempe Downtown, the primary FUDCon hotel. There are quite a few Fedora people here already and it’s nice to see some good friends again and I am excited to meet more people that I only know by IRC or mail or SCM commits.
Looking back at CLT 2010
Yesterday I came back from Cologne, where I stayed a night at Enrico’s before taking the train back to Münster. After I arrived home, my customers kept me busy, but now I have some time to blog about the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (Chemnitz Linux Days) last weekend.
Contributing to Fedora should be FUN
This is going to become an interesting FESCo meeting on Tuesday i think.
Wenn’s mal wieder länger dauert
… hilft auch kein Schokoriegel.