New account, migrated from old. I guess I should do an #introduction post for the #fediverse.
Hello! I'm a father, husband, and DevOps Engineer by trade. I build award-winning custom motorcycles in my down time.
I've had the fortune of messing with tech since the TRS-80. My dad helped successfully steer us clear of Microsoft product offerings my whole life. From Deskmate > GeoWorks > OS/2. Then from there, Linux > BeOS > MacOS > Linux. I really enjoy #elementaryos and #fedora.
I'm running for the EPEL Steering Committee. If I've ever helped you with EPEL, or you've enjoyed my conference presentations about EPEL, please consider voting for me.
This release party we will be joined by our downstream friends from @UniversalBlue and @ultramarine! Contributors from each will be sharing updates from their projects. Happy to have them here as we try to be intentional with our downstreams. :)
We're excited to hear about the community updates that will be presented at the Fedora 40 Release Party. 😬 We'll learn about the Mentored Projects initiative, the git forge investigation, EPEL 10, and Week of Diversity!
Audio on #Linux was long the butt of many joke. My goodness, has #pipewire delivered. I love how well my A/V IO works and behaves out of box on #Fedora these days.
sudo dnf up
then sudo dnf system-upgrade download releasever=40
(you can also do 39 if you'd prefer)
then finally sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
then wait and you're done!
Installed #Waydroid on my #Fedora Linux PC today. Took a while until I understood how to add some ARM emulation support. Followed instructions for adding Google PlayStore, hooked up the Xbox 360 controller and fired up #AmongUs where the little one immediately started to show me the ropes.
Voting is under way for the Fedora 40 election cycle! Please look at the candidates and their responses to questions about serving in the roles they are running for.
Open seats are for the Fedora Council, FESCo, Mindshare Committee, and EPEL Steering Committee.
The Fedora Week of Diversity team is looking for participants for videos! We want to share a message that says "From every culture, every language, every walk of life, Fedora brings us together as one community."
My laptop screen broke, so I figured I could use my #SteamDeck as replacement. Didn't want to loose Steam OS, though, it's a gaming device after all.
So I bought a SanDisk SD card for 35€, and used #mkosi to flash a #fedora workstation disk image onto it. Took a few days to understand what #fedora packages I need for the full workstation experience, but in the the end the process was surprisingly smooth.
I tried downloading #Fedora straight from the website and even that failed validation during installation, so I guess Fedora is just screwed atm.
Then, I tried #Ubuntu finally, which I was trying to avoid. It installed okay, but as soon as I log in, it goes straight to an "Uh oh something went wrong" crash screen.
For all the shit it takes, I haven't had any such problem with #Windows on this same hardware (at least not since the 95/98 days).
I don't know how #Linux can ever truly take off while such fundamental issues persist. But I also don't know how I can remain with Windows as they push ads and spyware into their OS.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place, I guess I'll just procrastinate on this issue until I build out my next rig.