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Upgrading SuperMario to Fedora 21
The latest curl works with XBMC (now Kodi) so it’s time to upgrade my main Fedora computer. fedup --network 21 --product=nonproduct So that started running at 1427. The d/l finishes at 1500, but as...
View ArticleProgress marches on….
I can’t believe in 2006 I was excited about the new possibilities of an nVidia card with 128 MB of RAM. Today we’re talking about 4GB+ of DDR5!
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Fedora Unleashed: My 2003 Gateway into Linux
I was happy to be interviewed for Fedora Magazine about How [I] Fedora and I mentioned that there was a Fedora book that led me to pick Fedora. (I also mentioned that on this blog here) Recently I’ve...
View ArticleA Quick Update on my use of btrfs and snapshots
Because of grad school, my work on Snap in Time has been quite halting – my last commit was 8 months ago. So I haven’t finished the quarterly and yearly culling part of my script. Since I’ve been...
View ArticlePost Script to yesterday’s btrfs post
Looks like I was right about the non-commit and possibly also about the df -h. Last night at the time I wrote the post: # btrfs fi show /home Label: 'Home1' uuid: 89cfd56a-06c7-4805-9526-7be4d24a2872...
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Taking Fedora 22 KDE Spin Beta for a spin
It’ll be of no surprise to regular readers of this blog that I’m both a fan of the Fedora distribution of Linux as well as the KDE desktop. For the first time in six years, the KDE desktop is changing...
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My Main Linux Activity Desktops
I just updated the Desktop Screenshot page. Here’s a gallery of my latest desktop with KDE 4:
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Fedora 22 Upgrade Part 1: tanukimario
Started off with the guest room computer as it’s the least used. If things go pear-shaped there’ll be less complaining. fedup had a complaint about the one of the dependencies of the Dolphin Emulator....
View ArticleFedora 22 Upgrade Part 2: tanukimario
Turns out that the issue was the Fedora SDDM theme. Once I changed that to the default KDE theme everything worked. I wonder what I need to do to get the Fedora theme so that works as well. At least I...
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Fedora 22 Upgrade Part 3: kuribo
Today I upgraded my netbook. Interestingly, this had less problems than yesterday with the guest computer. Perhaps because I wasn’t using KDM on my netbook? Anyway, I was actually expecting a worse...
View ArticleFedora 22 Upgrade Part 4: supermario
Today was the big one, time to upgrade supermario, my workhorse machine. As usual I had to remove the kmod-nvidia packages. This time around, because my card was getting a little long in the tooth, it...
View ArticleFedora 22 Upgrade Part 5: supermario
I was pleasantly surprised to see the next day, when I woke up, that plasma had loaded up despite the fact that I removed kmod-nvidia. Also, I did not have the same issue with KDM as I did with...
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My First Attempt at Customizing my Fedora 22 KDE 5 Plasma Desktop 5
So I found out today that there is no way to re-enable different backgrounds and plasmoids per virtual desktop. It appears to be a mix of forcing people to finally use activities and a complication...
View ArticleChanging to SDDM on SuperMario (Fedora 22)
Whenever I boot up post upgrade to Fedora 22, it takes much longer to load KDM than it used to. So I thought maybe it has something to do with Wayland and the fact that KDM is EOL’d. So I thought I’d...
View ArticleChanging BACK from SDDM (to KDM)
SDDM just kept crashing on my system. I can’t figure out what’s screwed up about it. And when it would get me to a KDE desktop, I couldn’t click on anything. So it’s back to KDM for now…
View ArticleWhat I learned while trying to diagnose a slow boot
I spent the weekend trying to figure out why SuperMario boots so slowly. I ended up overturning my ideas about what the problem was and learned a lot of new techniques. The only bad thing is that while...
View ArticleModern Fedora and SSH Server
Today I was banging my head against the desk trying to figure out why I couldn’t ssh to one of my Fedora machines. I knew that while Fedora wasn’t the most secure Linux distro out there, it was more...
View ArticleFedora Print Debugging Tip
I was having trouble printing and couldn’t figure out what was going on. I tried everything, including reinstalling the printer and reinstalling the driver. I was getting a misleading “you are using...
View ArticleAnother Fedora Print Debugging Tip
The wife told me she couldn’t print from her computer. Sure enough, I couldn’t print from mine either. I tried the trick from last time and ran system-config-selinux but selinux wasn’t responsible this...
View ArticleFedora and Dell Inspiron 17
I recently had to reinstall an OS on the wife’s Dell Inspiron 17. I was unable to complete an install for Fedora 22, but Fedora 21 and Fedora 23 beta were able to install. It would always freeze...
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