It's A Binary World 2.0

Category: Fedora

  • Fedora 21 Beta KDE Spin Part 2

    It’s a week and a half after the last time I looked at the Fedora 21 and about 2 weeks away from the final release if there aren’t any showstopping bugs. I just did an update and it appears that Fedora 21 will start out with KDE 4.x instead of KDE 5. I spoke to…

  • LEGO vs Playmobil

    I know I’m late to coming across this, but I found a presentation where someone was explaining the idea behind Fedora.next where there are 3 core products: Fedora Server, Fedora Workstation, and Fedora Cloud. But I also think it works rather well if you think of Gnu/Linux distros as LEGO sets and Windows/OSX as Playmobil.…

  • Fedora 21 Beta KDE Spin Part 1

    Booted it up in Virt-manager (which finally has bridging!) I love the new theme! But, sadly, it logs into KDE4, not KDE5. Perhaps 5 isn’t ready for primetime? What I find baffling, given that this is running in a VM is that it loads FASTER to the desktop than the computer it’s running on. I…

  • In case you’re having issues creating a new VM in Virt-manager

    Tried to use virt-manager again (more about that in a future post), but kept getting the error: qemu-system-x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Permission denied Well, turns out this blog post had the answer for me: sudo setsebool -P virt_use_execmem=on That blog appears to be a great…

  • Where Fedora Innovates

    Back when I was actively reviewing Linux distros and still learning all about Linux, it was in vogue to say that any distro was as good as the next. They all had the same GUIs and programs. The only difference was which package manager you preferred. Distributions started off, in fact, as a way to…

  • Fedora 21 Beta Released!

    Fedora 21 Beta Released! I’m torrenting the ISO now to check out KDE 5.

  • Watching Netflix on Fedora 20

    These instructions are from this site, but I don’t trust sites to stick around. Make sure Netflix is setup to prefer HTML5. This is in Your Account-> Playback settings. I have the latest nss (has to be equal to or better than 3.17.1) Need Google Chrome (you can PROBABLY do this on Firefox with a…

  • Exploring btrfs for backups Part 6: Backup Drives and changing RAID levels VM

    Hard drives are relatively cheap, especially nowadays. But I still want to stay within my budget as I setup my backups and system redundancies. So, ideally, for my backup RAID I’d take advantage of btrs’ ability to change RAID types on the fly and start off with one drive. Then I’d add another and go…

  • Exploring btrfs for backups Part 5: RAID1 on the Main Disks in the VM

    So, back when I started this project, I laid out that one of the reasons I wanted to use btrfs on my home directory (don’t think it’s ready for / just yet) is that with RAID1, btrfs is self-healing. Obviously, magic can’t be done, but a checksum is stored as part of the data’s metadata…

  • Exploring btrfs for backups Part 2: Installing on My /Home Directory and using my new Python Script

    I got my new hard drive that would replace my old, aging /home hard drive. As you read in part 1, I wanted to put btrfs on it. This is my journey to get it up and running. Plugged it into my hard drive toaster and ran gparted. Because of the peculiarities of btrfs and…

  • Exploring btrfs for backups Part 1

    Recently I once again came across an article about the benefits of the btrfs Linux file system. Last time I’d come across it, it was still in alpha or beta, and I also didn’t understand why I would want to use it. However, the most I’ve learned about the fragility of our modern storage systems,…

  • Upgrading to Fedora 20

    The original fedup – 0.7 – did not work. Upgrade to 0.8 and then it complained about three packages – gthumb, picard-freeworld, and kipi-plugins. I THINK what happened is that my Fedora 19 version was the same or greater than the version in Fedora 20, but the dependencies were written in such a way as…

  • Review: Installation and first Look: Fuduntu 2012.1

    Fuduntu started off as a customized Fedora install, but recently forked Fedora to create their own special distro that borrowed a bit from Ubuntu and a bit from Fedora.  It has a very nice look when it first starts up and I almost forget that it’s Gnome 2.x:     I decide to jump right…

  • Preupgrade from Fedora 15 (Lovelock) to Fedora 16 (Verne)

    As usual, every time I upgrade Fedora I write a blog post to preserve this knowledge for others who might run across the same problem or in case it happens to me again next year.  This time around the situation was a little less smooth than previous upgrades.  After the preupgrade was done, when I…

  • Testing out kde-telepathy in Fedora Rawhide

    I’ve been reading a lot about kde-telepathy and it seems to be the next evolution beyond Kopete.  So I decided to check it out in my Fedora Rawhide VM since that’s going to have the latest packages and telepathy is still in deep beta.  When I installed all the packages that seemed to be important,…