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The Fedorian Dare

Ok, when I first installed http://www.linux-noob.com/screenshots/fedora/1/post/index.html, I got "all crazy" and installed KDE, XFCE and GNOME all at once!

It was quite an experience. I had a pentium 4 (1st gen) with 1 GB of RAM (133 MHz or something) and …


Haciendo mejor FOSS que nunca

Hola, lector desconocido al que le gusta el FOSS,

La neta, acabo de leer un comentario que me inspira. No por bueno; es uno de esos comentarios de un usuario que espera que el FOSS sea mucho mejor, pero que no piensa hacer nada para mejorarlo: un consumidor.

Yo sé …


Synapse: Should it retire from Fedora?

Hello, Fedorian Community!

I started maintaining Synapse in Fedora back in GNOME 2.x. It seemed like a great idea. It used Vala; no Mono and stuff.

Today, it seems abandoned:

I'd like to retire the package to …


Howto: Check if a browser has CACert installed as an authority

Well, I am working on a project to sell virtualization instances, a.k.a. vps, in http://bitcoin.org/.

Anyway, that has nothing to do with this. The thing is that I decided to go for http://cacert.org/ certificates. Why?

  • They're free
  • They do the work; which is encrypting …

HowTo: Bind10 resolver @ Fedora 19

I've been waiting for Bind10 to come to Fedora for a long time. I dunno if it's better or worse; I just like new stuff ;)

That said, I totally expect it to be better. It has some neat features and the idea of a modular app seems great. (huh? somebody …


My trip to Archland (Arch Linux)

I am an infamous Fedorian. Everybody who knows me, knows that. I love Fedora. Been with it since Fedora Core 1 and never left it.

This said, I just made a trip to Archland! I try to use some other distros between Fedora releases. The list of distros I have …


Fedora 19 up and running!

Yep, just upgraded. It's 5 AM and noticed the mirrors there.

I am totally happy! I can't believe it. FedUp did the trick this time!

fedup --network 19 --reboot

That was it. The production, testing and devel servers went down and up in 378 pings (1 sec per ping). This …


HowTo: Use ip instead of ifconfig

The other day, I was helping out some guy to set his IP address. He missed ifconfig; which is deprecated by the way, and I lent a hand; helping him get around the "ip" command.

Here's a micro cheatsheet:

# get some info on your link
# This will show your links …

Bitwig: Estación de producción musical para Linux!

https://bitwig.com/

Ok, aún no puedo creerlo!

Es posible que, si has leido mi blog, te darás cuenta de que tengo una banda. Soy músico y me gusta mucho componer. De hecho, tengo varios discos en:


HowTo: Identi.ca/Twitter/Laconi.ca en Fedora 18

Bueno, es muy fácil integrar identi.ca/twitter/laconi.ca en empathy/telepathy. Solo instala purple-microblog.

yum install purple-microblog

De esta manera, tendrás disponibles las tres cosas en tu "accounts" en Empathy; o cualquier cliente que use telepathy. Es lo más chido y sencillo.

La neta, esta no es una …