Re: What is this gibberish?

2018-02-02 Thread Matthew Miller
? Huh? I don't know what exactly is going on, or why the unit has such a strange name, but a "unit" is systemd-ese to describe all of the various individual things it can work with -- services, devices, mount points, sockets, etc. See `man system

Re: "canonical" link to info about a fedora package?

2018-02-14 Thread Matthew Miller
aproject.org/ and see for example: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/git-extras (Which *also* has links back and forth to the other things.) -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: "canonical" link to info about a fedora package?

2018-02-14 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 07:38:27AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ > ... snip ... > ah, yes, that's what i'm talking about, thanks. It's a lot less discoverable than it should be. I added a link on https://fedoraproje

Re: Where to report dependency problems.

2018-02-15 Thread Matthew Miller
kstart -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Where to report dependency problems.

2018-02-15 Thread Matthew Miller
the ssh-agent. But I > always get a "permission denied" error, while trying to clone. Even > with my public ssh key added in my profile. If you make a fork in the web ui (see the "Fork" button in the top right), can you clone from that fo

Re: To replace fc27 Gnome with KDE spin?

2018-02-16 Thread Matthew Miller
p them in the firmware setup. -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Matthew Miller
this? I'm not sure about R in specific, but generally the rationale is "no one did it". Are there particular packages that you're interested in? -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedo

Re: livecd-creator -

2018-02-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 06:51:10PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > How do I make a "livecd" from a fedora 27 iso? It used to be done > with an application listed in the menu. Do you literally want a CD, or do you want USB media? -- Matthew Miller Fedor

Re: Fedora 27 + Gnome 3.26.2: How to add a BRIDGE on VLAN interface with Gnome Network Control Panel ...

2018-02-27 Thread Matthew Miller
case, you would just use the NetworkManager tools. Think of them as "advanced configuration". -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

2018-03-02 Thread Matthew Miller
vidual messages. (If we had to remove one from the archive for privacy law or other legal reasons, _all newer messages that month_ shifted in number, making any links to them wrong.) This link is persistent and generated when the mail is sent. -- Matthew

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

2018-03-04 Thread Matthew Miller
is what > one would expect to see labelled as "users mailing list" rather than > the mailto: link which is actually there. Putting that in the standard list message footer seems reasonable. -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader _

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

2018-03-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 02:46:12PM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Putting that in the standard list message footer seems reasonable. > If you can influence that, thanks. I'll see what I can do. I can't see anything in the mailing list config interface off hand. --

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

2018-03-04 Thread Matthew Miller
. It is in mailman 2, but I'm not seeing an option in the Postorius config interface. -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Is there a way to get something into a Fedora How To list?

2018-03-15 Thread Matthew Miller
this up (including adding search and some other infrastructure essentials). Familiarity with asciidoc will help a lot (create the document, make a pull request!) but otherwise you could file a ticket at https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/quick-docs and someone with asciidoc knowledge can help with the convers

Re: upgrade to 28 beta question?

2018-04-06 Thread Matthew Miller
the other hand, if you _haven't_, you probably don't need `--allowerasing` either. > # dnf clean packages <-- optional > # dnf system-upgrade reboot Yep. And you might want to clear /var/cache/dnf after. -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

2018-04-10 Thread Matthew Miller
> with better cryptography? I just don't get it. The basic idea of cryptocurrency is that instead of "some physical thing", they are tied to a different limited resource: compute time. Hence, the "mining". -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Matthew Miller
battery applet in GNOME doesn't show detailed information. However, there is GNOME Power Statistics -- install it from Software, of course -- which both shows detailed information and can track usage and provide deeper info. -- Matthew Miller Fe

Re: Sudo but no su -

2018-04-26 Thread Matthew Miller
rk space for root and I was unable to do that, could not do > dnf upgrade or groupinstall xfce unless I used sudo. Is that a > virt-manager feature or is it going to be normal for Fedora 28? That's the default for Workstation now, yeah. It's easy to set a root password if you pre

Re: Smooth upgrade -- Thank you

2018-05-03 Thread Matthew Miller
t. > > It just works! :-) Thanks! -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Mouse pointer moves but does not click

2018-05-03 Thread Matthew Miller
using Fedora 28. I'm not a VirtualBox user and am not sure how much I can help, but... a couple of questions: * Was the mouse working and it suddenly stopped? * What application is your file open in? -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader __

Re: Mouse pointer moves but does not click

2018-05-03 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 03:28:09PM +, birger monsen wrote: > Ctrl-s is pretty universal to save in both windows and linux apps. Alt-F for the File menu, too. -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ users mailing list -- us

Re: WTF is this nonsense from bash -x ?

2018-05-15 Thread Matthew Miller
s is hard). > What the heck is this nonsense? Probably you have installed, and perhaps enabled, the environment-modules package. -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: WTF is this nonsense from bash -x ?

2018-05-15 Thread Matthew Miller
high performance computing and other academic/research environments in combination with software installed in a shared NFS tree (or AFS, although probably not so much anymore). I'm not sure what exactly pulled it in for you -- possibly a new soft dependency of some package you have installed. --

Re: gimp-2.10

2018-05-20 Thread Matthew Miller
work right with packagekit -- work is in progress. In a few weeks, you should be able to enable modularity and install it. Or, you can do so _right now_ -- just make sure to avoid using PackageKit or packagekit-powered tools like GNOME Softwarwe. -- Matthew Miller Fedora Pro

Re: Display cmd within shell

2018-06-11 Thread Matthew Miller
d > is run from the cmdline. > > ls -al /cloud_nfs_parse/austincc*__parse.dat | wc -l > 10 Can you clarify what exactly you would like the output to be? Is there any reason to not just duplicate the line with "echo" in front of it? --

Re: >60gb of reserved memory??

2018-06-21 Thread Matthew Miller
ually available. > Unfortunately I don't have physical access to the machine, which is > a HP desktop bought last fall. According to dmesg, the model is > something like Is there anything about memory in /proc/cmdline? -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader _

Re: >60gb of reserved memory??

2018-06-21 Thread Matthew Miller
nning an up-to-date Fedora 27 x86_64 with kernel 4.16.15-200.fc27.x86_64" -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedor

Re: sed and grep stopped working!

2018-08-17 Thread Matthew Miller
ours to see if memory corruption > is happening (in, for instance, the in memory copies of > pages from shared libs the tools might have been using). Or look for signs of malware / intruders. -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___

Re: fedora cloud AWS randomly shutdown

2018-09-27 Thread Matthew Miller
code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader _

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

2018-10-22 Thread Matthew Miller
y that for Ask Fedora. The AskBot software is not really actively developed (and has no community around development). -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to us

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

2018-10-22 Thread Matthew Miller
elopment). > I use that forum daily, and find it good enough at what it does. > There are some minor tweaks I'd like to see, such as telling new > users that their question/answer/comment is waiting for moderation, Right, minor tweaks like that are very unlikely, and bug fixes are t

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

2018-10-22 Thread Matthew Miller
s the name for using some of our designed-for-cloud-usage technologies for a desktop operating system. You can read more about it here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/ -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ users mailing

USB wireless that works-out-of-box?

2010-02-20 Thread Matthew Miller
ately, this seems to be a compatibility minefield -- can anyone suggest something that will just work for him? (No ndiswrapper, please!) Thanks! -- Matthew Miller Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Computing & Information Technology Harvard School o

Re: Anaconda is insisting on installing TigerVNC-Server for dependencies

2010-09-02 Thread Matthew Miller
it wants to reinstall Tigervnc-server for > dependencies, but, if I try to do that, it conflicts with RealVNC > server - anyone else seeing this? Why do you want anaconda installed? -- Matthew Miller Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Harvard School of

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-04 Thread Matthew Miller
h everything possible into user space. -- Matthew Miller Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedora

Re: Liberation or Corefonts?

2010-09-13 Thread Matthew Miller
tion fonts are free software fonts which happen to be drop-in replacements for certain Microsoft fonts. The Microsoft fonts you can get via the "corefonts" package are free-to-download-from-Microsoft, but are not free as in speech (or even completely free as in beer). -- Matthew Miller

Re: fedora 14, systemd question

2010-09-14 Thread Matthew Miller
t; for "maintenance". "failed" in newer versions of systemd, by the way. And since the kinks are still getting ironed out, an update is highly recommended. (Should be in the Fedora 14 test updates.) -- Matthew Miller Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research

Re: rm and old rpms

2010-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
> wasn't using repomanage (or another rpm specific tool), I'd use > tmpwatch rather than roll my own solution with find. +1 to both suggestions. -- Matthew Miller Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Harvard School of Engineering & A

Re: kernel update breaks virtualbox

2010-09-22 Thread Matthew Miller
er-space level functionality, but this is a kernel module. -- Matthew Miller Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

2010-02-03 Thread Matthew Miller
is wouldn't be terribly hard to implement as a yum plugin (checking for a gl dependency). -- Matthew Miller Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Computing & Information Technology Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- users

Re: F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

2014-01-01 Thread Matthew Miller
hese errors would have been forwarded to the mail > spool via /etc/aliases. Now it is lost. rsnapshot should be patched to log those. In the meantime, though, the package could have a dpenedency on an MTA. -- Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project Architect -- -- users mailing list users@l

Re: Fedora 20 install - can I revert to the old installer?

2014-01-03 Thread Matthew Miller
est one of two things: 1. For a single system, do a minimal install and build up your system after using yum or yumex. 2. For multiple systems, write a kickstart file, which gives you even more control. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mail

Re: avoiding renaming of the wlan0 device

2014-01-05 Thread Matthew Miller
/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules. This is still correct. Creating the symlink to /dev/null under /etc/udev "masks out" the default rule found in /usr/lib/udev. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or ch

Re: F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

2014-01-05 Thread Matthew Miller
nment used on my network" should be on the list. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedo

Re: FYI: Centos joins RedHat

2014-01-07 Thread Matthew Miller
Fedora fits in: http://wordshack.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/centos-welcome/ -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fe

Re: FYI: Centos joins RedHat

2014-01-08 Thread Matthew Miller
is going to affect us. Well, Robyn touches on some of that. I think overall the answer is "as much as we want it to". -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fed

Re: Policies

2014-01-08 Thread Matthew Miller
anyway. I'd suggest helping your friend subscribe to the group. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of

Re: basic question - running modified kickstart file??

2014-01-09 Thread Matthew Miller
he install, how do I > do this, and use the modified kickstart that I now have? You just need to give that kickstart file to anaconda. Have you see the documentation at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Guide/ch-kickstart2.html ? -- Matthew Miller-

Re: SOLVED SSHD ??

2014-01-13 Thread Matthew Miller
rted sshd , what puzzels me is how the setiing of port 35881 got > in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Either you put it there or someone else did. The default, of course, is 22. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: what's the point of filing bugs against Fedora?

2014-01-14 Thread Matthew Miller
ect.org/packages/calc But there's no general indication of whether bugs should be filed in a different bugzilla -- nor, really, is there overall project agreement that that's best practice. Adding something like that on a per-package basis to the pkgdb is an interesting thought. -- M

Re: Anyone upgraded from F19 to F20 with yum?

2014-01-15 Thread Matthew Miller
p > doesn't work with this setup. It should. I used it on my system which uses extlinux, and it just worked. (This is becsuse Fedora uses a tool called "grubby" to abstract out updating bootloader config, and as long as grub legacy support doesn't require any big changes I expec

Re: yum-cron koji pkg info F20 ?

2014-01-16 Thread Matthew Miller
k in the main yum source tree, so you can find builds under http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=21 for example http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=491154 -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: systemd boot-up another daft question

2014-01-16 Thread Matthew Miller
booting with systemd.log_level=debug ? -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduc

Re: f20 - difference between i386 and x86_64 distros

2014-01-20 Thread Matthew Miller
gt; think that I can put the demands on the machine as I used to. The reason I > switched is to contribute more to this group. This I would lose if I went > back to i386. Other than that, I can't say that there is anything to lose. Some amout of greater performance, since the x86_6

Re: spectrum

2014-01-21 Thread Matthew Miller
06 > It looks like that spectrum requires libgloox.so.8 while fedora 20 > offers only libgloox.so.11  with gloox-1.0.9-1.fc20 > This glitch happens with the new release of gloox! Yep. And here's the bug for Spectrum to be rebuilt: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055807 --

Re: Fedora 20 Installation Problem

2014-02-05 Thread Matthew Miller
appropriate configurations, I have run the Fedora installation which, > unfortunately, has hung after just a minute. What do you suggest I should > do? What is on the screen when it hangs? -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 20 Installation Problem

2014-02-06 Thread Matthew Miller
ppears, unfortunately. -- Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedora

Re: Best practices for SSD

2014-02-06 Thread Matthew Miller
- mount using relatime (or noatime for CentOS 5) This is the default. > - move /tmp to RAM: /etc/fstab >tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 This is the default. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: why would using "sftp" require disabling "vsftpd"?

2014-02-06 Thread Matthew Miller
arn you that vsftpd in its non-SSL configuration (which is the default, I'm pretty sure), any passwords or other sensitive information transferred will go in plain text on the wire (or through the air with wireless, of course). -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users

Re: why would using "sftp" require disabling "vsftpd"?

2014-02-07 Thread Matthew Miller
re: telnet and telnetd rlogin and rlogind ssh and sshd ftp and ftpd Which actually makes me surprised there wasn't a `http` client sooner. Not surprisingly, there actually _is_ one in Fedora -- try `yum install /usr/bin/http`. And it actually looks kind of nice. It's got

Re: Development question

2014-02-07 Thread Matthew Miller
M laptop designed for open, general Linux rather than ChromeOS. But, overall, I think this is a difficult and low-margin business to break into. And there actually _are_ a few small companies trying to do this already, so you wouldn't be first to the party. -- Matthew Miller--

Re: NTP slowing down system shutdown, how to disable?

2014-02-11 Thread Matthew Miller
ou could try 'systemctl mask ntpd.service". You may want to try chrony instead, by the way. Not to be confused with cronie -- *sigh*. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: systemd security?

2014-02-12 Thread Matthew Miller
> folks who are more than curious out there... This might help: http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#auth-protocol -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.

Re: recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-15 Thread Matthew Miller
ng distinct server, desktop/workstation, and cloud targets for Fedora.next. We'll be able to make the right decisions for different use cases with conflicting needs. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-15 Thread Matthew Miller
it looks like two years later, btrfs is *still* "about two years out". That's not a good trajectory. I spent some time talking to kernel filesystem experts on this at FOSDEM and DevConf the last couple of weeks, and the feedback I get is that while it's still interesting, we r

Re: Working update sitting in testing

2014-02-15 Thread Matthew Miller
e if you know that the update doesn't have backwards-compatibility issues or major UI changes. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/l

Re: recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-15 Thread Matthew Miller
et? Hallway talk, I'm afraid. However, we talked about actually having a session (or even a mini-track, if there's a lot of interest) at the next Flock about the near- and medium-term future of filesystems in Fedora. -- Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org <http:/

Re: recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-17 Thread Matthew Miller
o be replaced while > keeping /home. I agree that the last one seems like an important case which the installer could cover better. Separately, if we're really interested in allowing/encouraging parallel installs, we probably should figure out how to make OSTree work officially. https://lwn.

Fedora.next update + panel discussion video from DevConf

2014-02-22 Thread Matthew Miller
t here's the video for now. There are also a number of other incredibly-relevant and interesting recordings from the conference at <http://www.youtube.com/user/RedHatCzech/videos>, many about Fedora directly, and others about interesting related open source software. -- Matthew Miller--

Re: Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

2014-02-28 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:07:38AM -0600, Dan Mossor wrote: > What do y'all consider the most efficient network file system? NFS? > SMB? SFTP? NFS over UDP. Less reliable, but less overhead. Can be significant if you have a lot of data to push around. -- Matthew Miller-- Fed

Re: Critical bug in GnuTLS

2014-03-04 Thread Matthew Miller
3.1.20-4.fc19 These need testing and karma. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject

Re: Anti-brute force to those using firewalld?

2014-03-06 Thread Matthew Miller
ot work with firewalld. For reference, here's the bug for making it so it *does* work with firewalld: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046816 -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change sub

Re: how does one (or does one) report a fedoraproject wiki page out of date?

2014-03-10 Thread Matthew Miller
is topic, see". (Maybe there is a template for this? Not sure.) -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of

Re: Backup question

2014-03-16 Thread Matthew Miller
uot; -- http://rpm-ostree.cloud.fedoraproject.org/. As the name implies, this lets you do atomic updates and switch back if thereis aproblem. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Backup question

2014-03-16 Thread Matthew Miller
* ones, plus /tmp may be on tmpfs. Type 'mount' and look at what you have on your system. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listi

Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-03-18)

2014-03-18 Thread Matthew Miller
helpful to post this here? If so, is full text important, or is posting a link to the web site fine? Would it be helpful to post it to other lists as well or instead? What about repurposing the defunct "news" mailing list for just this purpose? -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Projec

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

2014-03-19 Thread Matthew Miller
myself) might miss them. I definitely will. Thanks. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/c

Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

2014-03-19 Thread Matthew Miller
dia, or at any bar or coffee shop within walking distance of Boston's MBTA. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

2014-03-21 Thread Matthew Miller
?", "What can > be done to make Fedora a better distribution for everyone?", "Do we want > more people to use Fedora?", "How do we get more software into Fedora?", > "How do we get more people to contribute?", "How can we decide what we >

no default mta [was Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)]

2014-03-21 Thread Matthew Miller
's arguably actively harmful to have it running by default. That's all. No one is removing MTAs from the distro. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

2014-03-21 Thread Matthew Miller
an do some of those things, but not necessarily in the same way, and I don't think we'll be able to do anything meaningful by imitating what they did years ago -- that window is past and we need to go our own way. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list

Re: no default mta [was Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)]

2014-03-21 Thread Matthew Miller
gs to see if it ran correctly or not. We definitely need better alerting and monitoring, mail-based or otherwise. Help wanted. :) -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription op

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

2014-03-21 Thread Matthew Miller
> tinker with things or who aren't willing to accept that not > everything in their distro is really ready for prime time. +1 to this, too. I don't think we *want* to become the mainstream windows-replacement OS, because that's not where we want to be on the innovation curve.

keep the tone civil

2014-03-22 Thread Matthew Miller
- it certainly doesn't help convince anyone who disagrees, and it makes the whole conversation less useful overall. Thanks. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedora

minimal install [was Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)]

2014-03-22 Thread Matthew Miller
rful GUI partitioning tool ever made. > Seriously? And like I said, I don`t like GUI installers at all. Seriously. And since you don't want a GUI installer, you probably should preconfigure your disk with whatever tools you want and then install onto it with kickstart. (more on the r

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?"))

2014-03-24 Thread Matthew Miller
at you are suggesting is a bigger problem -- getting user input into Fedora. How could that be done better? Surveys? More user testing? An active "User Feedback SIG"? -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

2014-03-24 Thread Matthew Miller
e how that might feel to people on the other side of the equation. Please, everyone, assume good faith on the part of the other. Software developers have the best intentions in making changes, and frustrated users are just frustrated. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- us

the "separate /usr" subthread

2014-03-25 Thread Matthew Miller
s not really an issue. (And, hey, you can fit minimal Fedora in that space!) It might be neat for some special cases, but I hope we can all agree that it *is* a special case (and that Fedora isn't necessarily the right thing to cover all special cases). -- Matthew Miller-- Fed

Re: the "separate /usr" subthread

2014-03-25 Thread Matthew Miller
ver all special cases). > It`s probably not totally impossible to do it, or is it? Probably not, but you might need to do some special work (including possible changes to "normal" Fedora) and that's probably okay. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users

Re: user and groups permissions

2014-03-25 Thread Matthew Miller
writable by the group, and use "chmod g+s" to set the bit which will make all new files created inside that directory also owned by that group. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscrip

Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-03-25)

2014-03-25 Thread Matthew Miller
* Thanks to Stephen Gallagher for content suggestions this week, and Joe Brockmeier for proofreading. If you have tips for the next week, please send ‘em to me. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: the "separate /usr" subthread

2014-03-25 Thread Matthew Miller
y is local? On modern Linux/Unix, the "/usr" directory holds system binaries and libraries -- it is not the user directory. On Fedora (and most Linux systems), that is "/home". And there's no problem sharing that over the network. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Pr

Re: Is it irrelevant what users of FOSS think? (Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?"))

2014-03-26 Thread Matthew Miller
move from 19 to 20 to 21 through the daily updates > instead of a major upgrade. You might want to try running Rawhide, our development branch. It works exactly that way. Sometimes there are issues, but... that's thr price you pay for that. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project--

Re: "Atomic"?? (was Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-03-25))

2014-03-26 Thread Matthew Miller
n progress, you may get surprises. "Partially atomic" usually refers to systems where safe rollbacks happen on failure, but where it might be possible to accidentally make an access while the thing is being changed with unpredictable results. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project

Re: the "separate /usr" subthread

2014-03-27 Thread Matthew Miller
ed pencil and > >paper, and we were grateful. ;-) > And you probably ate dirt and carpet fuzz as well. I think the Godwin's law of the Fedora Users mailing list is: all long-enough threads eventually get to everyone competing to be the oldest with the most esoteric use of anc

Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part II, “What’s Happening?”)

2014-03-28 Thread Matthew Miller
in any media including replies here, on the article, on the social media, or at any bar or coffee shop within walking distance of Boston's MBTA. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- "Tepid change for the somewhat bette

Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

2014-04-01 Thread Matthew Miller
of general Fedora knowledge. Is it helpful for me to (as above), give a quick explanation when I talk about Rawhide, Flock, or FESCo? Or, does that just increase the word count for no reason? Let me know. Also, as always, tips on what's going on in your part of Fedora are appreciated — e-

Re: Fan speed going up and down?

2014-04-03 Thread Matthew Miller
does the waste heat, and therefore, no fan. -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- "Tepid change for the somewhat better!" -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.

xwayland lands in xorg

2014-04-07 Thread Matthew Miller
interest here. http://blog.mecheye.net/2014/04/xwayland/ -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- "Tepid change for the somewhat better!" -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: h

Re: xwayland lands in xorg

2014-04-07 Thread Matthew Miller
;followups" section, because I do already have 5 new things. :) -- Matthew Miller-- Fedora Project-- "Tepid change for the somewhat better!" -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription option

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