10 basic linux security measures everyone should be doing
Akin to locking your doors and closing your windows there’s some really basic things everyone should be doing with their Linux installs (This is of course written from a Fedora viewpoint, but I think...
View Articlerawhide 4.9.0 pre rc1 kernels
Just a quick note that with the upstream kernel folks opening up the merge window for the 4.9 linux kernel, rawhide also has been getting these merge kernels. Of course there’s a ton of churn when the...
View ArticleRawhide kernels back on track now
Just another quick note that rawhide kernels are back to booting and working normally here at least. With 4.9.0-0.rc0.git3.2.fc26.x86_64 at least. That should be in today’s rawhide.
View ArticleFedora Infrastructure Outages (and the one on 2016-10-08)
Astute folks may have noticed that we had a pretty severe outage this morning that lasted just about an hour. This seems like a good time to talk about outages in general and this one in specific. In...
View Articlesqueezing out a bit more battery life under Fedora
In my experience, battery life on laptops has been getting better all the time with Linux/Fedora. However, there’s a few things you can do if you need just a bit more battery life than you are getting...
View ArticleFedora go/no-go meetings
Before each Fedora milestone release (Alpha, Beta, Final) there is at least one Go/No-Go meeting. As the name suggests this is the meeting where folks from QA, FESCo, Release engineering, Program...
View ArticleFedora 25 Beta is here
This morning we released Fedora 25 Beta: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F25_Beta_release_announcement Release mornings are always a bit stressful for us in Fedora Infrastructure, even though we have...
View ArticleThe Fedora infinote server
Many of you may not know that Fedora Infrastructure runs a infinote server instance at infinote.fedoraproject.org. Infinote is a collaborative text server. You can connect to it with the ‘gobby-0.5’...
View Articless: the netstat replacement
Many of the old network tools in the net-tools package have been deprecated for a while now. The replacement for the traditional netstat command is ‘ss’. It of course has a ton of options (like...
View ArticleThe greatest game in history…
I am of course talking about nethack. If you haven’t played in a little while (and you HAVE played nethack right?), it’s as fun as you remember it. Running around the dungeon fighting monsters and...
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