Change in Fedora leadership
by Mike Chambers
Case folks from Fedora User list aren't on the announe list, and missed
this.
Yes am top posting but wanted to leave the msg untouched.
You may go now haha.
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
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From: Jared K. Smith <jsmith(a)fedoraproject.org>
Reply-to: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
To: announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Change in Fedora leadership
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:54:16 -0500
One of the things I like most about the Fedora Project is the
opportunity for people to move and grow in (and out) of different
roles and responsibilities. The position of Fedora Project Leader,
in particular, has never been a long-term leadership position, but one
that regularly invites new people to assume the role and bring new
ideas and new energy to the project. I would like to take this
opportunity to share some of my thoughts about being the Fedora
Project Leader, and inform you of upcoming changes in Fedora
leadership. Any time we make leadership changes in Fedora, we that
that challenge seriously, and do everything we can to make the
leadership transition as smooth as possible.
Although I've been using Fedora since the split from Red Hat Linux,
it's only been the past five of six years that I've really been an
active contributor. Sure, I was hanging out on the mailing lists,
trying out the pre-releases and reporting bugs, but I didn't really
consider myself a part of Fedora. It wasn't until I got started with
the Docs team and attended my first FUDCon that I truly caught the
spirit of the Fedora community. Since then, I've thoroughly enjoyed
rubbing shoulders with people who are infinitely smarter than me, and
I've learned a tremendous amount -- both about the technical bits and
bytes, and also about free software communities. And for the last
little while, it's been my honor and privilege to serve the community
as the Fedora Project Leader. The role of Fedora Project Leader isn't
an easy role, but I am proud of the things we've been able to
accomplish both within the distribution and within the community
during my tenure. We've had three solid Fedora releases during my
time as FPL, each one with a myriad of new features. I've worked hard
to expand our international outreach, and to get more international
representation on the Fedora Board. We've updated the Fedora website.
We've improved our quality assurance processes. We've been able to
deliver Fedora images for the Amazon EC2 cloud on release day. We've
improved our translation system. I'm thankful for all those who have
worked hard to help drive Fedora forward. Now is the time for me to
pass the torch to the next Fedora Project Leader.
As you probably already know, Red Hat employs the FPL to ensure
someone is accountable to Red Hat and the rest of the community for
the Fedora Project as a whole. After all, many Fedora leaders have
referred to the FPL as "the one throat to choke" when it comes to
Fedora. The FPL is still subject to the same process as any other Red
Hat hire, though, and ultimately Red Hat is responsible for that
decision. It is imperative that the decision be a good one for the
entire Fedora community, so the Fedora Board is consulted about the
selection. This process has continued to work well for several
previous FPLs, and the Board provided positive feedback about our
selection this time around, too.
I'm happy to announce that Red Hat has selected Robyn Bergeron to be
the next Fedora Project Leader. Robyn has proven herself in the
Fedora community over the last several years, and I have complete
confidence in her abilities to lead the Fedora Project. In addition
to planning FUDCon Tempe in 2011 and helping to lead the Marketing and
Cloud SIGs within Fedora, Robyn has been an integral part of many
other Fedora events and endeavors. Most recently, she has held the
role of Fedora Program Manager, helping to ensure that we all stay on
schedule and helping the Fedora feature process stay on track. Please
join with me in welcoming Robyn into her new role, and in giving her
your help and support in her new role. I'll be working with Robyn
over the next weeks and months to help her in the new role.
--
Jared Smith
Former Fedora Project Leader
12 years, 1 month
Nvidia drivers thru RPMfusion
by Lawrence E Graves
Just wanted to know has there been any solution to the fact on some
laptops there is still that problem with the installation of rpmfusion
nvidia drivers install. I am still using the 275.43.run drivers from the
nvidia.com in order to have use of nvidia drivers.
There was a thread a month or so ago concerning this problem. Ivan help
me with it and there was still no solution so I let it die for fear of
offending people. I got in touch with the nvidia people and they said a
fix was coming and that has been some time ago. Just inquisitive as to
the progress being made toward this problem.
--
Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
12 years, 1 month
kernel-3.2.2-1.fc16 breaks wifi
by Christian Menzel
Hi,
the kernel-3.2.2-1.fc16 update broke the wifi on my Lenovo X220 (Intel(R)
Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6205 AGN, REV=0xB0).
The system detects and connects to a wireless lan, but after some minutes
the system cannot connect to other hosts anymore.
The wifi icon still shows and the system still has an ip-address but all
pings answer 'destination unreachable'.
After stopping/starting wifi the Internet connection will stay for a short
time before failing again.
For me kernel 3.2.2 is unusable and I went back to 3.2.1.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
Chris
12 years, 1 month
manual network setup, manage multiple wifi access
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all,
I would like to manually setup my network on my laptop, not with
NetworkManager.
I am especially looking for a way to manage Wifi network.
Just for example, on Debian/Ubuntu, I use:
# /etc/network/interfaces
iface home inet dhcp
wireless-essid rktmb
wireless-key foobar
iface work inet dhcp
wpa-ssid wifiatwork
wpa-psk ababababab
And then, in CLI:
$ sudo ifup wlan0=home
or
$ sudo ifup wlan0=work
to up the Wifi.
For convenience (we use Fedora/CentOS for all Linux boxes), I'm going to
switch to Fedora 16 on my laptop, but really want to up the network via CLI.
What could be the Fedora equivalent?
Would you have some documentation link about that?
Thank you.
--
RMA.
12 years, 1 month
Router help please - Linksys Windows only?
by don fisher
I am receiving The following error messages every 30 seconds in
/var/log/messages:
avahi-daemon[1029]: Received response from host 192.168.7.1 with invalid
source port 32783 on interface 'eth0.0'
I looked on the internet and found a blog with the same problem:
http://homecommunity.cisco.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/Received-response-from...
I went to CISCO to determine what the resolution was.
1. Live Chat support informed me that Linksys was only supported under
Windows and that I could call live support at 1-800-326-7114.
2. Live support made be perform rather silly tests under Windows. Then
passed me to a supervisor.
3. The Supervisor could not find the above email thread on their own site!
Linksys does not have an email address for support. And the people I
spoke to were not savvy enough to understand the problem as described in
the above thread.
Is Linksys a known problem for Linux systems? Should it be?
Are there any suggestions on how to bound the size of my message files
other that editing avhi so that it does not issue these warning messages?
I was online or on the phone to Linksys for over 3 hours. I do not know
where they are located, but I could barely understand their english. It
was one of the worst support experiences in my 35 years of system
involvement!
Don
12 years, 1 month
Samsung RF711-S02 anyone?
by Geoffrey Leach
I'm shopping for a desktop-replacement-grade laptop. The Samsung RF711-
S02 (Intel i7/4G DDR3 /750 GB / 17") looks like it might be a good fit.
BUT, can't find any info on Linux-compatibility. Anyone have data on
that?
Thanks.
12 years, 1 month
ATI HD 6570
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I got a new computer with a ATI HD6570 graphics card and a AOC monitor
capable of 1920x1080, but
fedora 16 live does not run because of the graphics does not seem to be
correct.
I am the same problem with my standard live tools, gparted, TRK, etc...
With some distributions (ubutu, knonopic), I can get some graphics
but with a low resolution, typically 800x600 or 1024x768
I do not know what is due to the driver and to the monitor.
Can somebody help?
Thank.
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12 years, 1 month
Amarok hangs with recursive search enabled
by Gene Smith
On Friday before applying a f16 update I was using Amarok. I don't use
it often but it seemed to be working OK. Then after the upgrade, on
restarting amarok, it asked my location (US) for Amazon store which I
entered (don't remember being asked that before). Anyhow, after the
upgrade, Amarok would run for a short time and then hang with lots of
disk activity going on but continue play a song. After killing it I
noticed a amarokcollection indexer running in the background which I
also killed.
After starting it a back a few more times with the same result (Amarok
hangs with the collection program running hard) I found that I had to
disable recursive directory searches to prevent this in Amarok preferences.
I think maybe amarok uses mysql but not sure. After this same upgrade
that I applied on Friday, indexing a large LXR database with mysql took
a *very* long time, as I mentioned in an previous post. Both of these
problems seems to start after the Friday update that included a mysql
update and possibly an amarok upgrade too. (LXR is a add-on sourceforge
program that consists of perl scripts and is not part of Fedora.)
-gene
12 years, 1 month
transmission, unity, the tray
by Matej Kosik
Hi,
When I recently started to use Fedora, I lost the ability to run
transmission so that when I close the main window, transmission
continues to run but it packs itself to the "tray" (like "pidgin",
"stardict", "skype" at al.)
Can this be somehow enabled again?
Thanks in advance.
12 years, 1 month