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adamw

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Fedora QA team lead. If Fedora isn't working, it's probably my fault! he/him/his

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danirabbit, to random
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Hey Linux YouTubers, podcasters, bloggers, etc:

If you find yourself saying “I don’t understand why they would do that”, reach out! I’m happy to have conversations and answer questions. We can make something more entertaining and fun and learn things together 🩷

adamw,
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@danirabbit good lord, so much this!

adamw, to random
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writes long email
re-reads long email to try and edit it to be shorter
adds more sentences to it instead

b0rk, to random
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I keep thinking about trying to write another zine about git -- for me git is something I feel totally confident using and I never really run into problems, and I really wish I could telepathically send that sense of confidence to everyone who’s struggling with git

adamw,
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@b0rk I think my mental shortcut with git is: absolutely anything that goes wrong with git is fixable until you run git push.

as long as you remember to check the status isn't weird before you do that, you can't really break anything too badly.

for me this makes me a lot more relaxed about 99% of what you have to do with git. yes it's a bit weird and you can get in some weird states, but it's always salvageable somehow.

adamw,
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@b0rk yeah - well, I suppose it's the difference between "it's salvageable" and "I know how to salvage it". but that could be an excellent subject for part of your zine? wink wink!

9to5linux, (edited ) to fedora
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Looks Like Asahi Spin Is Switching to the Calamares Graphical Installer https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-kde-spin-is-switching-to-the-calamares-graphical-installer

adamw,
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@9to5linux no, it isn't. it's using it for post-install initial setup. the install process is different. please read https://fosstodon.org/@marcan@treehouse.systems/111007133072456808 .

RL_Dane, (edited ) to fedora
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Tried a live USB on a 2015 Macbook Air, because it was handy (the laptop, that is).

No Wifi, no webcam.

Umm... what? On an 8 year old machine? I didn't realize fedora would be so... Debianish. ;)

Well, all I needed was to use it to copy files from an exfat partition to ext4. I'm done pulling backups off my old mac backup disks.

P.S. Just for clarification, I love debian, so it wasn't meant as a dis against either distro. I found the issue surprising, that's all. ;)

adamw,
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@RL_Dane @jason123santa it's not a question of "legally" exactly, just Fedora by policy does not ship non-free software, ever. There's some non-free software that Fedora theoretically could legally include, but we just do not do that. Fedora is all free software. (non-free firmware, defined as code that does not execute on the host CPU, is acceptable).

sesivany, to linux
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I borrowed a 32" 4K monitor and have two observations:

  1. the fractional scaling on improved quite a bit since I last tried it several years ago. This monitor requires 150% and I didn't have any significant issues with it.
  2. 32" is too large unless it's ultra-wide. This monitor wasn't, so I'm back to 24" QHD. When I look for a 4K monitor again, I'll be looking at something like 27-28".
adamw,
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@sesivany I use 125%, 150% seems too much for 4k 32" for me...

I'm pretty happy using a 4K 32" non-curved non-ultrawide monitor, though it took a bit of adjusting to. I use it the way I used to use two 22" monitors in portrait mode, essentially as two screens split left and right.

frumble, to fedora German
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Workstation 39 Planning To Drop Custom Qt Theming

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Dropping-Custom-Qt-Theme

Forum:
»"to reduce the maintenance burden"
A lot of stuff sure did get burdensome after the sale to . Oddly enough.«

adamw,
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@frumble maintenance burdens existed before RH was acquired by IBM too! Go check some past Changes / Features.

Conspiracy theories are always fun, but rarely accurate.

adamw, to fedora
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today:

adamw,
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the thing looks small, but it's quite a cool collaboration with upstream: what it (should) mean is that we catch when a change in something else, e.g. systemd, breaks something important in podman (more than we did already, by doing some functional testing of podman). upstream is excited about it, let's hope it works out well.

https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/19299

jonathanspw, to fedora
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I wrote a post about my first experience at

https://jonathanspw.com/posts/2023-08-12-flock-to-fedora-2023/

adamw,
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@jonathanspw but there were giant jugs of water and glasses in every conference room! you couldn't move for water 😂

fwilhe, to fedora
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Any insights how and will handle the license change in ? I don't hope they would include BSL code in the distro, so… freeze the version of vagrant before the license change? Any prominent OSS fork already?

adamw,
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@fwilhe we definitely wouldn't include BUSL source in Fedora, no. I don't know what the outcome will be, though - probably some kind of fork...carrying an old version forever wouldn't be practical, I don't think...

adamw,
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@fwilhe @vwbusguy I don't know, off the top of my head. It doesn't look like vagrant is.

adamw,
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@vwbusguy @fwilhe oh yeah, that'll be fun! glad it's not my job. :D

adamw,
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@vwbusguy @fwilhe yeah, I was gonna say, I see the irony but it's not really the same. The RHEL source change doesn't screw anyone using RH-maintained upstreams.

adamw, to fedora
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today:

  • won the #flocktofedora #covid lottery! woohoo!
  • lots more trying to get #fedora #openqa update tests working post-F39 branching; I think I have it in a good state now, and gating is enabled for #rawhide again. All tests should pass for Rawhide updates, for F39 updates the desktop_background tests will fail as we don't have F39 backgrounds yet, I have dropped these from the gating policy for now
  • got sysadmin-main powers. somebody has made a terrible mistake somewhere
adamw,
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@funnelfiasco
I don't really have anything else to do! Can't focus enough to read a book, it's easier to just work on small things...

b0rk, to random
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what helps people get comfortable on the command line? https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/08/what-helps-people-get-comfortable-on-the-command-line-/

Would love more stories of things that helped you in the last ~5 years!

(as usual, no need to reply if you don’t remember, or if you’ve been using the command line comfortably for 15 years — this question isn’t for you :) )

adamw,
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@b0rk
I've seen some people who actually put the repo on github. I don't know exactly how you go about conveniently applying the files to the right location on a system, though...maybe there's some tooling for it?
@angermcs

fedora, to fedora
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[Panel: Upstream collaboration & cooperation in the Enterprise Linux ecosystem]

We wanted to make sure this Flock session didn't get lost in the weeds. Primarily focused on upstream collaboration in Fedora, this conversation will be moderated by Project Leader @mattdm with representatives for @almalinux, @centos Stream, RHEL, and @rockylinux.

Watch live at 3:30 PM local time (10:30 AM EDT): https://sched.co/1Or6Q

adamw,
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@fedora @almalinux @centos @rockylinux confession: I...may have spent more time than was strictly healthy trying to find somewhere in Cork to buy a gigantic bag of popcorn to bring to this

adamw, to random
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Now at presents: A Week With @Conan_Kudo - activating the community to build cloud images

adamw, to random
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today: did my talk at , I think it wasn't quite as good as at devconf.cz because I was pretty tired, but went well enough! I'll post a link to a recording when one is up somewhere. lots of attending talks (some good ones on CPE team status and rpminspect), hallway track, pub quiz...now to try and get some sleep

adamw,
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@pjol thanks so much! I'm glad it was useful :)

adamw, to fedora
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yesterday and today: travel to ! I am here safely and will be presenting on the current state of automated testing in - that's and basically - at 3:30pm tomorrow in "Harbour 6". be there or...be somewhere else, it's up to you really! especially if you saw this talk one of the other three times I did it :D

https://flock2023.sched.com/event/de3fad0bd62299124e0ac852b71ee772

mobiuscog, to NixOS
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I've decided is not for me. It has a lot of useful capabilities, but in day-to-day usage, the complexity of passing different SDKs and development environments through to the IDEs that I use, is just too frustrating.

After also trying arch, void, and a few other 'new' distros, I am heading back to 12.

Along with (probably) as a Window Manager, and with providing the ability for extra diversity, it should provide a stable yet flexible setup.

adamw,
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@array @mo8it @mobiuscog grub is a tricky case, because moves very slowly upstream. in the RH world (including Fedora) we actually base our grub builds off a fork - https://github.com/rhboot/grub2 - partly because upstream is so slow.

upstream releases on average every two years, so it's not weird for distro builds to be way ahead of the last upstream stable. I wouldn't fault arch for that necessarily. bootloaders are hard, we all have issues sometimes.

adamw,
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@array @mo8it @mobiuscog it's also very tricky to be really sure bootloader changes are safe because they're very sensitive to hardware, disk layout and configuration. as the arch issue says, "Depending on your system hardware and setup this could cause an unbootable system" - emphasis added. it's hard to test every possible config ahead of releasing a new bootloader build, there's so many of them and obviously you can't test everything in virtualization or containers.

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