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Fedora 12 filesystem showdown
Kernel: 2.6.31.1-56.fc12.i686.PAE I/O Scheduler: CFQ Encryption: LUKS/dm-crypt AES-XTS cipher 512 bit key Installation Media: rawhide boot.iso (20091010) Benchmark: bonnie++ Graphing script:...
View ArticleGood Python Habits: vim + pyflakes
Here is a neat little hack for running pyflakes on Python files after you save them. I like using pyflakes for quickly catching dumb errors, but you could easily replace it with a more comprehensive...
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New liveusb-creator release!
So I've gotten some pretty inspiring feedback from various users of the liveusb-creator recently, so I decided to put some cycles into it this weekend and crank out another release. "As a non-Linux...
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TurboGears2 in Fedora & EPEL
I'm excited to announce that the TurboGears2 web application stack is now available in Fedora 12, 11 and EPEL-5. What is TurboGears2? TurboGears 2 is the built on top of the experience of several next...
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FUDCon Toronto 2009
Another FUDCon is in the books, this time in Toronto. It was great to catch up with many people, put faces to some names, and meet a bunch of new contributors. I gave a session on Moksha, which I'll...
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RIP Fedora 10
Fedora 10 (Cambridge) (2008-11-25 -- 2009-12-17) Features Updates Source: bodhi Fedora 10 Updates Most updates per developer in Fedora 10 Most Updated Packages in Fedora 10 Packages with best karma...
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My dream machine
In an effort to optimize my home office, I recently donated my server rack to a local Boston record label, to hold their Red Hat servers. I'm also in the process of donating all of my computer...
View Articlenose 0.11
I know nose 0.11 is old news, but I've only recently discovered it's new multiprocess module. lmacken@tomservo ~/bodhi $ nosetests...
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Fedora Community Statistics
I'm pleased to announce that version 0.4.0 of the Fedora Community dashboard has just hit production. Along with the usual batch of bugfixes, this release contains a new 'Statistics' section that...
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liveusb-creator trojan in the wild
I've been noticing many different copies of my Windows liveusb-creator popping up on various sketchy-looking download sites. The majority of these copies contain a variant of the Vundo Trojan. "Vundo,...
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Fedora Updates Report
I recently wrote some code to generate detailed statistics of Fedora & EPEL updates within bodhi. Eventually this will be auto-generated and exposed within bodhi itself, but for now here are the...
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Professors' Open Source Summer Experience @ RIT
Last week Red Hat put on a Professors' Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE) at RIT. Being an alumni, I was excited by the opportunity to be able to go back up to The ROC and teach some of the people...
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liveusb-creator 3.9.3 windows release
I spent the majority of yesterday at a DOS prompt. Thankfully, it wasn't as painful as it sounds, as git, vim and Python make Windows development quite tolerable. Anyway, I was finally able to track...
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FUDCon 2011 Tempe
I meant to get this summary out the door weeks ago, however, I didn't want to distract from my post-FUDCon productivity :) Another FUDCon has come and gone. This time it was in gorgeous Tempe,...
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Fedora Photobooth @ SXSW
This is the first year that Fedora will have a booth at SXSW! Sadly, I am not going to be attending since it conflicts with PyCon. However, my code will be running at our booth. Usually the Fedora...
View Articlegit clone all of your Fedora packages
After doing a fresh Fedora 15 install on my laptop last night, I wanted to quickly clone all of the packages that I maintain. Here is a single command that does the job: python -c "import pyfedpkg;...
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Red Hat OpenShift Express & The Leafy Miracle
Red Hat made a lot of awesome announcements this week at The Red Hat Summit, one of which being OpenShift. I had the opportunity to play with the internal beta for a little while now, and I must say...
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Wielding the ANU Quantum Random Number Generator
Last week Science Daily published an article that caught my attention titled 'Sounds of Silence' Proving a Hit: World's Fastest Random Number Generator. The tl;dr is that researchers at the ANU ARC...
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Keeping your finger on the pulse of the Fedora community
For those who haven't been keeping up with all of the awesome code Ralph Bean has been churning out lately, be sure to checkout fedmsg.com. Hop on #fedora-fedmsg on Freenode or load up busmon to see...
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Bodhi2 Fedora Activity Day
The Bodhi2/Taskotron Fedora Activity Day happened earlier this month! A bunch of us gathered in Denver for a few days and worked on some of our critical releng & qa infrastructure. The hackfest...
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liveusb-creator 3.13 release!
A new version of the liveusb-creator has just hit the Fedora repos! It's been a long time since there has been any major changes to the tool, but I managed to find a couple of days last week to...
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Atomic OSTree updates for Fedora 21
With the new Fedora 21 Cloud Atomic Host released, we needed a way to continuously update the OSTree during the Fedora updates process. The rawhide & branched nightly tree composes are triggered...
View ArticleRelease Tools and Infrastructure FAD
The Release Tools and Infrastructure Fedora Activity Day happened recently at the Red Hat office in Westford, Massachusetts. The goal was to bring our release tooling and processes up to speed with...
View ArticleFedora 20 updates metrics, compared to F19.
Fedora 20 recently reached End Of Life. Below are metrics generated from Bodhi, along with the percent change compared to Fedora 19. 15012 updates (+8.37%) 6952 packages updated (+6.09%) 13207 stable...
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