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Reunión en el canal #fedora-latam

Éste es un mail enviado por Tatica para invitar a todos los que quieran participar de una reunión en el irc en la cual cualquiera pueda plantear un tema y verlo con todos los compañeros de la comunidad latam:

Saludos.

Les recuerdo que hoy a las 20 UTC [1] estaremos realizando la 6ta reunión libre para todos los usuarios, embajadores, colaboradores y mentores del proyecto Fedora en LATAM.

Así mismo, recuerden que cada uno de uds es libre de proponer cualquier temática en la agenda. [2] Solo deben editar la wiki y agregar su tópico de interés
Fecha: Jueves: 02 de Septiembre del 2010

[1] Horario: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2010&month=09&...

Información: http://proyectofedora.org/wiki/Reuniones
[2] Agenda: http://proyectofedora.org/wiki/Reuniones/Agenda

Feliz día!!

NOTA: Es probable que hoy no los pueda acompañar, en dado caso, hay alguien que quiera/pueda liderar la reunión?
NOTA2: Recuerden reenviar este mail a sus listas :)

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tatica
Maria Gracia Leandro
http://www.tatica.org
http://www.fedora-ve.org
http://proyectofedora.org
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MariaLeandro

Bugzilla bugs and voting

A few folks were confused and dismayed to get an email today from bugzilla.redhat.com like:

“Some or all of your votes have been removed from bug NNNNN.

You had X votes on this bug, but X have been removed.

You have no more votes remaining on this bug.

Reason:

The rules for voting on this product has changed; you had

too many total votes, so all votes have been removed.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=NNNNN”

First, some background:

Bugzilla has “votes” on bugs. It allows each user to spend from their pool of votes and assign them to bugs that they like. I guess the idea is that highly voted bugs would show up as somehow more “important” and get more resources. We looked at generating a report on this to garner more resources for “important” bugs, but found that votes failed at this task for several reasons: They were hard to query, you could not tell how many people had voted, only total vote number, the vast majority of people didn’t see the voting interface so never voted, votes were never reported to maintainers in any way aside from the raw web interface, and others.

Additionally, some few people who did see the voting interface spent time and energy voting on bugs and asking others to do so, when in the end that did no measurable good aside from wasting their time. For these reasons, I asked the redhat.bugzilla.com folks to disable voting in the Fedora product.

Sadly, I was unaware that it would send emails to everyone who voted telling them (in a very negative sounding way) that their votes no longer counted. I’m sorry for any problems or negative energy this caused, I was just trying to save time and energy.

Additionally, I did hear of a valid use case for votes after the fact (but likely not enough for me to want to re-enable them): You can vote on bugs you care about, and use the voting interface to see progress on them (no need to CC yourself to a bug or spam it, you can silently see a group of bugs simply by voting on them).

So, I think this change was still for the best moving forward, and I would urge everyone who voted on a bug to go look at it and see what additional information could be added to it to move it to a resolution instead. FESCo has been looking at a way to see ‘very active’ bugs for a while now, please see: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-engineering-services/ticket/24 if you have ideas or would like to help out.

My linux counter machine
The "The Linux Counter" site is a good site.

At Sep 02 2010 16:22:56 GMT, there are
125104
users registered
133701
machines registered
My guess at the number of Linux users:
Twenty-nine million 

My number machine is :

We can use a script to registers or updates a machine's info in the counter.
The script is allow here.
We can use add, update and send mail with info about your linux machine.
We can add a crontab job with -c arg .
The user ID must only be able to send mail and write to its own home directory.

Ubuntu Bashing: Please Stop
Recently someone posted a set of pictures of burning an Ubuntu cd case and breaking up a dvd or cdrom. Hurray a great victory for the rights of Freedom everywhere, correct? No. It is just a ritualistic act to try and rally one group of apes who think they are about to be wiped out by some other clan of apes. It reeks of fear, hatred, and intolerance and I want the Fedora community to be above that.

Having had to deal with Red Hat Linux boxed sets returned to us stuffed with dog faeces, or ashes of disks.. I don't like seeing other people's work crapped on. Having grown up in area where book burnings still happened because of some group thinking it would save their children from the sinful world.. I will not stand quiet on this.

You want to promote freedom, make Fedora or the world a better place. Burning disks and posting hatred will not do that.

Recently on the planet.fedora

Today someone posted pics of burning another distributions cd sleeve and a broken cd/dvd from the same distribution and called the same distribution an evil dieity. I cannot agree with this act in any way. The Fedora community has no beef with this other distro nor should we put up with things like this to cause friction between any of our Open Source brothers and sisters.

All i can say to the other distro in this situation. Is that the one individual does not speak for the whole Fedora Community (nor I for that matter). But every Distro does have its fanatics that seem to want to generate problems.

The joy of SELinux relabelling.
One common complaint about SELinux is that it takes a long time to relabel. A relabel walks all of the mounted file systems that support labelling, and compares the file context on the file to the system default, if they differ, the process will fix the label. Sadly a common misconception about SELinux is that one of the best ways to fix SELinux problems is to touch /.autorelabel; reboot. Even I have suggested this a few times.

Note: File systems that support labelling are identified by looking for the seclabel field in /proc/self/mounts. File systems mounted with a context mount do not have this field. See below.

Full relabelling of an SELinux machine should almost never be necessary, Unless you disable SELinux. And none of you would ever do that :^), permissive mode is a much better idea. Running restorecon recursively on a directory is a better and much quicker solution. But sometimes a machine could get so totally corrupted that you have to autorelabel. An admin going crazy with chcon?

Every selinux-policy update package includes a limited relabel, although sometimes this is less limited then others. The package update fixes all labels that changed in the update. The selinux-policy package compares the file context file pre install and post install and attempts to relabel the greatest common denominator, if I remember my math terms correctly. Basically if is sees label changes in /usr/lib64 it will run a fixfiles /usr/lib64.

I have seen emails talking about the problem of length of relabelling like the following.

John Mellor states
"if I have a few petabytes of disks attached, I do NOT want that walked under any circumstances by the relabelling process."

Daniel Thurman asks "I have several versions of root distro partitions of which I do mount via fstab, but of course only one / and /boot partition is to be defined for the version to be booted.

What I would like to know is, if I do an /.autorelabel, for one boot/root partition, does this mean that every mounted filesystem that appears in /etc/fstab also gets relabeled? If so, this is not what I want especially if other root distro partitions are being mounted for example,
say: /md/{distro1, distro2, ...}

So, How do I get around this? "

One solution suggested by Paul Howarth was to create a local policy module called otherdistros.

"I create a local policy module for this sort of thing, with a file contexts entry like this:

# Don't touch stuff here
/srv/homes(/.*)? <<none>>

So you could have:
::::::::::::::
otherdistros.fc
::::::::::::::
/md/distro1(/.*)? <<none>>
/md/distro2(/.*)? <<none>>

::::::::::::::
otherdistros.te
::::::::::::::
policy_module(otherdistros, 0.0.1)

Building and installing that module should do the trick.
"
A simpler solution would be to execute

# semanage fcontext -a -t "<<none>>" '/md/distro?(/.*)?'

This semanage command tells the SELinux tools that the labels under '/md/distro?' have no default labels, do not try to relabel them.

Another solution would be to use context mount options, if files you do not relabelled exist on on a separate file systems. Adding a /etc/fstab entry like:

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /myweb ext4 context="system_u:object_r:http_sys_content_t:s0",defaults 0 0

stops the relabel from walking down that path. It tells SELinux to treat every file on the file system as http_sys_content_t.

Note: DO NOT do this on standard directories, meaning do not label all of /usr as httpd_sys_content_t, your system will not work.

Both touch /.autorelabel;reboot and yum update selinux-policy execute the /sbin/fixfiles bash script. If someone wants to patch it to allow admins to specify directories to execlude from relabel, patches accepted.

PRESERVE YOUR FREEDOM

Free Software comrades, do you feel UNDER THREAT? Merely follow these steps to rid yourself of THE DEVIL:

1.

2.

3.

My love story with Caroline
Caroline is one persona created to illustrate the various categories of Fedora users and she stands for the "Casual User", paraphrasing, she tries to spend as little as possible time on front of the computer but may be involved in some other communities.

Frankly, I used to root for Caroline and want to see her targeted more by our distro, but after seeing the changes in our distro made in the name of catering to her needs... I got to care very little (none?) about her and I am not far from hating her. Why? because those changes are making my life harder and my computer use less pleasant (I acknowledge is not always Caroline's fault, she's sometime used as a strawman to push some agendas).

We look desperate trying to "steal" the Ubuntu audience and forget what made Fedora Fedora and doing it poorly. As I see it, the key to the success on the desktop is: features, features, features, polish, polish, polish. Look at the features we advertise for F14 and, please, show me at least one desktop user that get excited by one of them. Of courde we are not perceived as a desktop distro and losing. Badly.

Drawing arrows with GIMP

Today I desperately neede to draw arrows in a picture to point parts of an Arduino stack with an Ethernet and Xbee shield.

So, I took the picture of the stack, increased the contrast and made other adjustments to perfect the pictures and I was ready to place the arrows. Arrows? How? OK, I googled and found this http://registry.gimp.org/node/20269

You just have to download the .scm file. If you are a Linux user (obviously I use Fedora), go to your Home Folder and press Control+H to unhide the hidden folders. Next, go to the “.gimp-2.6″ (1st: Yes there is a full stop, 2nd: 2.6 is the name of the folder right now according to GIMP’s current version). Inside this folder find the folder scripts and place there the .scm file. Now, open GIMP (or re-open if already running), go to Tools and you are good to go

(Tip: To draw an arrow you must use the path tool at the toolbox. Just click one time to point the start of the arrow and a second time to point the end. You will just make a straight line that will be used as a path)

In Greek : Στον σύνδεσμο που υπάρχει παραπάνω μπορείτε να κατεβάσετε το .scm αρχείο που θα σας επιτρέψει να σχεδιάζετε βέλη με το GIMP αυτόματα. Για να λειτουργήσει το αυτό το script πηγαίνουμε στο Home Folder, πατάμε Control+H για να αποκαλυφθούν οι κρυφοί φάκελοι και στη συνέχεια πηγαίνουμε στον φάκελο “.gimp-2.6″ (1ον ναι υπάρχει τελεία, 2ον το όνομα προέρχεται από την τωρινή έκδοση”). Μέσα σε αυτόν τον φάκελο υπάρχει ο φάκελος scripts όπου και τοποθετούμε το .scm αρχείο. Ανοίγωντας το GIMP τώρα μπορούμε να δούμε στο Tools το Arrow

(Συμβουλή: Για να φτιάξετε το arrow πρέπει να σχηματίσεται ένα μονοπάτι με το path tool. Αν απλά κάνετε ένα κλικ για την αρχή και άλλο ένα για το τέλος του βέλους εκεί που επιθυμείτε είστε έτοιμοι να φτιάξετε το βέλος με το Arrow που βρίσκεται στα Tools)

Sad/FUDCon
I am sad today: learned yesterday a good friend may possibly attend the Zurich FUDCon which would have been nothing short of awesome. Half a day later, sad reality hits: she won't be able to attend for the stupidest reason of all: didn't get a few days off from work. It's a shame! And her employer is supposedly in the FOSS business...

Last Combat :-)

For all the crazy things that go on in the world wide web, this one’s a unique addition. For those who have been in oblivion till now, Ladies and Gentlemen kindly visit Last Combat and add fuel to the fire

Fedora 14 Supplemental Wallpapers
We at the Fedora Design Team are not arrogant enough to think the default wallpaper we provide is the ultimate choice for everyone, we understand the diversity of our users and their tastes and trying to make a larger audience happy we want to provide a set of alternatives. The idea is not new, we started playing with it a couple of years ago, but only now it came to fruition.

Of course, other distros are doing it too and they may arrived faster to results, but we used the "Fedora way", more Free and more Open :D It started with a wiki page collecting submissions from everyone, it was announced on blogs/Planet, Fedora Weekly News, microblogging and so (as a writer for FWN I made sure the happenings are documented as they go).

After a generous submission interval we had the members of the team expressing their option/preferences/votes (you want the selection made by someone with an understanding about design, usability, photography and such) and this ended in a "winners" page containing the most voted images, some of the submission are creation of Fedora contributors and some are Free images gathered from the internet (Flickr)

The current step is to double-check the licenses (we became quite paranoid about this after the InvinXible/Solar incident) and at the first pass we struck down a couple of them due to restrictive license (CC-BY-ND and CC-BY-NC are not Free, so not acceptable for inclusion on Fedora). The second pass is to contact the unknown photographers and learn if they are happy with the attribution we are able to provide, some already replied positively. Expect the package to hit the repos before the Beta release and get a few improvements until final.

One of the last steps we are still trying to figure is providing attribution (author name, license and URL) in the wallpaper chooser application as tooltip, the current idea is to (ab)use ane XML file in /usr/share/gnome-background-properties/) and another is to try to persuade some spin maintainers into liking and using the package (it will probably be at least part of the Design Suite).

Rock it.

फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स मैथिली में तैयार है...
जाना-माना लोकप्रिय वेब ब्राउज़र फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स मैथिली में तैयार है. हमलोगों कुछ वर्ष पहले मैथिली में पूरा का पूरा कंप्यूटर तैयार करने की आकांक्षा पाली थी और खुशी है कि हम इसे पूरा कर पा रहे हैं. इसका उपयोग कीजिए और बताइए कि कहाँ-कहाँ हम इसे सुधार सकते हैं.

हम पहले ही फेडोरा, गनोम, केडीई जैसे मुक्त स्रोत सॉफ़टवेयरों को मैथिली में ला चुके है. फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स लोकप्रिय है. उम्मीद है कि मैथिली जानने वाले लोग हमें अपने सुझावों के रूप में योगदान देंगे.


डाउनलोड करें —

फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स मैथिली - विंडोज़ मशीन के लिए
फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स मैथिली - लिनक्स मशीन के लिए
फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स मैथिली - मैक मशीन के लिए

अगर आप संस्थापित नहीं करना चाहते हैं तो उदाहरण के लिए आप विंडोज वाली लिंक डाउनलोड करें और अपने पहले के खुले फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स बंद कर अनजिप करके फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स चलाएँ.
अधिक विकल्पों के लिए लोकेल नाम mai खोज कर  यहाँ से डाउनलोड करें.

आपके सुझाव की प्रतीक्षा में

— मैथिली कंप्यूटरीकरण टीम

Soporte Mp3 Beta Fedora 11 (Rawhide)

Hace poco, me decidí a probar Fedora, luego de que tanto la llame la distro de niñitas, jaja, bueno realmente a diferencia de ubuntu y otras emo-debian-derivadas, Fedora, me ha sorprendido, cuenta con una comunidad activa y cálida, así como una estabilidad sorprendente (y eso que estoy usando una versión beta). Así que me dispuse [...]