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Category: Workstation

All articles in this category are related to the Workstation Working Group in the Fedora Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation

Fedora tackles Southeast Linux Fest (SELF) 2018

Fedora tackles Southeast Linux Fest 2018

Ambassadors Report for Southeast Linux Fest -Ben and Cathy Williams, Andrew and Julie Ward, Rosnel Echervarria, and Nick Bebout

Southeast Linux Fest June 8 – 10, 2018, Charlotte North Carolina

Julie and Ben just after setup

The annual event reached its historical 10 year mark this year. Southeast Linux Fest has been one of the most successful and long running events when it comes to Linux and only is topped by Scale and Linux Fest Northwest. Southeast Linux Fest (SELF) an event that is held at the Sheraton Airport Hotel Charlotte North Carolina. This event was centralized to accommodate attendance (easy access from Airport) from many of the surrounding states. We saw many individuals from the Tennessee, Georgia (Atlanta/Macon area), South Carolina, and Florida, as well as the local attendees from the Charlotte area and the state of North Carolina.

Event Goals from the desk of Southeast Linux Fest Coordinator

Discussing the primary goal of this event with the Coordinator (of Southeast Linux Fest), the target was to draw from the surrounding southern states. The secondary goal was opening the event to everyone interested in learning about free and open source software. Later in this report we will discuss some of the feedback given to the Coordinator about Southeast Linux Fest.

Test Day: Fedora Media Writer 2018-07-12

June 5, 2018 / sumantrom / Comments Off

Thursday, 2018-07-12, is the Fedora Media Writer Test Day! We need your help to test Fedora Media Writer!

Why test Fedora Media Writer?

This installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Fedora Media Writer . Fedora Media Writer, is used for creating bootable flashdrives on different operating systems and architectures. The tool is intended to be provided as the primary download option since Fedora 25, with the aim of lowering the barrier for potential users to try and install Fedora. In this test day, we aim to test both Fedora 28 and Fedora 29 Pre-Release boot-media creation on Windows, OS X, and Fedora, specifically targeting creation of ARM-bootable media.

Fedora 25 Supplementary Wallpapers: Vote now!

October 14, 2016 / Sirko Kemter / Comments Off

At the end of August, the submission phase for Fedora 25 Supplementary Wallpapers opened. Now, the submission phase closed and the voting phase is now open. If you have a FAS account and meet the CLA+1 group requirement, you can cast your vote in Nuancier.

Wallpapers for Fedora 25

We have 113 contributions from 80 different contributors and awarded 73 badges for submissions. This compares to 124 valid submissions from Fedora 24. In case your badge was not awarded, ping gnokii in #fedora-design on freenode.

As for past contests, a lot of the participants made their first contribution to Fedora. We will continue to improve Nuancier and the submission process for supplementary wallpapers. We will also try to improve quality of submissions. We already improved with limiting the amount of submissions. We also had longer phases for submissions and the time for the voting is also longer as before.

Be sure to cast your vote before October 23rd, 2016 to have a say in what wallpapers are included! By participating, you can also receive a limited edition badge too.

SCaLE 14x (2016) Event Report – Pasadena, California

February 1, 2016 / lajuggler / 5 Comments

SCaLE 14x (2016) Event Report

At a Glance: What is SCaLE?

What: Free and open source software conference in Pasadena, California
Where: Pasadena Convention Center
When: 21 – 24 January 2016

Our Ambassadors in the Field

This report is for the following Ambassadors:

Perry Rivera (FAS: lajuggler)
Matthew Williams (FAS: Lorddrachenblut)
Alex Acosta (FAS: aacosta)
Scott Williams (FAS: vwbusguy)
Brian Monroe (FAS: ParadoxGuitarist)

Welcome to SCaLE!

Christmas update of Fedora Developer Portal

December 21, 2015 / jstribny / Comments Off

Christmas is coming, so we cut a new release of the Fedora Developer Portal for you. We have a few new tools, a new member to our development team, and a new staging instance to test future updates of the Developer Portal before deploying them. Continue reading

Mumble ready for testing

December 2, 2015 / Justin W. Flory / Comments Off

Mumble is back

Mumble, a free and open-source VoIP program

The popular Voice Over IP (VoIP) program, Mumble, is being repackaged again for Fedora 22 and 23. Fedora contributor fedpop unretired the package from the Fedora Package Database and is working on getting it added to the stable repositories.

Mumble is available for testing for Fedora 22 and 23 users. Once enough positive feedback is received, it will be added back to the stable repositories for all users. Testers are welcome, especially for Fedora 22!

How to test Mumble

To test Mumble, open a command line and run the following command.

$ sudo dnf install mumble --enablerepo=updates-testing

Confirm the installation and the application will appear on your system. Give it a run and make sure everything works as expected! If it all checks out, leave feedback for the build in Bodhi so the package can move closer to being packaged for the stable repositories (links are below).

For help enabling the testing repository, see the QA Testing wiki article.

Find Mumble in Bodhi

Mumble, Fedora 22

Mumble, Fedora 23

HP Linux Imaging and Printing Driver Updated with Support for Fedora 23

November 24, 2015 / cprofitt / 1 Comment

On November 16th, HP released a HPLIP 3.5.11 which adds support for the newly released Fedora 23, OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 and Ubuntu 15.10. It also included support for custom AppArmor profiles, SELinux and discovery of network scanners. For more details please check out the release notes and knowledge base article.

Source: Softpedia

First update for Fedora Developer Portal

November 20, 2015 / jstribny / Comments Off

This article originally appeared on contributor Josef Strzibny’s personal blog.

Developer Portal updates

First update of what? If you haven’t notice it yet, we announced a new developer portal for Fedora some time ago. Today I released a first update with some new contributions that landed on our GitHub after the announcement. So what’s new?

With the help of the Fedora community we were able to merge two new language sections: Haskell and Mono. That means we are already covering the basics for ~11 language runtimes and compilers!

Apart from that this is mainly bugfix release fixing many typos, but some improvements are merged as well. One of those changes is for example suggesting using libvirt’s Polkit rules instead of those shipped by vagrant-libvirt-doc sub-package when configuring password-less access to libvirt domains via Vagrant.

Some of the pending contributions did not make it for this release, but the next ones might happen more often. Big thank you goes to all our new contributors! And if you haven’t submitted anything yet, perhaps now’s the time. 🙂

Wayland is default in Fedora Workstation Rawhide

November 11, 2015 / Ryan Lerch / 1 Comment

Fedora developer Ray Strode recently posted to the Fedora Developers list with the news that Wayland is now used by default when you log into GNOME with Fedora Workstation. Previously to try out Wayland with Workstation, there was an additional session in the login screen that allowed you to choose either login with Xorg or Wayland. This change is part of the much anticipated proposed Fedora 24 feature, Wayland by Default.

Ray also noted that, as the Change is still proposed, if Wayland by default doesn’t pan out, or the change doesn’t get approved rawhide will be switched back to having both sessions.

Ray also noted:

“But it’s good to get this in rawhide now, so we can get as much
exposure as possible to potential Wayland problems and get them fixed up before release.”

So if you use Rawhide, test away and file bugs!

Announcing the Fedora Developer Portal

November 11, 2015 / Justin W. Flory / 1 Comment

The Fedora Project is proud to announce the launch of the new Fedora Developer Portal. The Developer Portal supports developers working on software projects with Fedora as their primary operating system or inside a virtual machine. It helps them install essential development tools, language runtimes, and databases. It also introduces distribution and deployment options using COPR and OpenShift.