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Btrfs Fedora Remix

valent — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:37:43 +0000

Currently I’m testing if it is possible to create btrfs live CD-USB Fedora Remix. If this works next release of Community Fedora Remix will have btrfs by default.

What you need to do is to edit Fedora kickstart file. Instead of just one line that creates single ext4 root partiion you also need a dedicated /boot partition. Currently it is not possible to boot from btrfs partition.

Original lines from Fedora kickstart files look like this:

part / --size 5000 --fstype ext4

And you need to change so it look like this:

part /boot --size 120 --fstype ext4 part / --size 6000 --fstype="btrfs" bootloader --location=mbr --append="btrfs"

Keeping my fingers crossed that this works ;)

UPDATE:
This isn’t working, livecd-creator just fails when use kickstart file that is edited this way. I got a tip to try one different setup:

part /boot –size=128 –onpart=sda1 –fstype=ext3 part pv.01 –size=128 –onpart=sda2 –grow volgroup VolGroup pv.01 logvol / –size=128 –vgname=VolGroup –fstype=btrfs –grow –name=root –fsoptions=ssd

This works so far that it creates iso image but it is ext3 image, and not btrfs?!? Any ideas on how to create btrfs livecd is more than welcome.

Izašao je Community Fedora Remix 13.1 “Lucky 13″

valent — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:08:11 +0000

Nakon mnogo mukotrpnog rada, štrikanja kickstart skripti, pravljenja novih rpm paketa i testiranja Community Fedora Remix 13.1 “Lucky 13″ je spreman za download.

Dvije su osnovne ideja koje stoje iza Community Fedora Remixa, prva je “više od upstreama” a druga je “multimedija odmah”.

Što znači “više od upstreama”?
Fedora je vrlo usko vezana za upstream projekte (GNOME, KDE i sve ostale) te s njima ima jako usku suradnju, takav način suradnje donosi i puno prednosti pri razvoju novih mogućnosti. No bliska suradnja s upstream projektima ima i nedostatak ako netko želi bilo što eksperimentirati s nekim promjena na desktopu to ne može napraviti u Fedori već sve treba prvo dogovoriti s upstream projektima, što ubije sve ideje u početku. Zbog toga je izgled Fedora desktopa malo “zaostao” u odnosu na druge Linux distribucije koje grabe hrabro naprijed poput Linux Mint-a. Ovdje ne mislim na dizajn jer Fedora dizajn tim radi odličan posao, već na ukupan izgled i funkcionalnost desktopa.

Kao je Fedora projekt omogućio pravljenje Remix-a iskoristili smo tu mogućnost kako bi napravili najbolji mogući Fedora Remix za desktop korisnike.

Što znači “multimedija odmah”?
Druga ideja “multimedija odmah” znači da su multimedia codeci i flash podrška odmah instalirani, nema potrebe za instaliranjem bilo kakvih dodatnih paketa.

Ovaj Fedora Remix možete zamisliti kako Pimy My Ride verziju Fedore ;)

Jedna od najvećih promjena u odnosu na sve mainstream distribucije je korištenje mintMenu-a i DoxkbarX-a na GNOME sučelju umjesto standardnih GNOME panel komponenti.

Ovim putem vas pozivam da se i uključite u ovaj projekt. Ako imate ideju i znanje kako ju implementirati više ste nego dobrodošli. Ako imate samo ideju kako poboljšati ovaj Remix svakako javite, bilo bi nam drago da čujemo vašu ideju, a još draže da se priključite i sami ju ostvarite. Ako nešto i ne znate pomoći ćemo vam oko tehničkih detalja.

Za suradnju se prijavite na mailing listu ovog Community Fedora Remix projekta.

Kako pomoći ovom projektu:

- ako imate ideje i znanje:
* kako poboljšati Linux Destop
* koje programe instalirati kao standardne
* koje programe izbaciti s popisa standardnih
* koje GNOME teme instalirati

- ako ste grafički dizajner
* pomognite nam u dizajnu web stranica
* dizajn logotipa i zaštitnog znaka distribucije

- ako ste web programer
* pomognite nam podići novi web site, forum i sve ostalo što treba

- ako ste Linux Ninja
* uključite se u direktan razvoj ove distribucije

Za detalje pogledajte i službene stranice.

Fedora 13 – btrfs and Asus eee issues

valent — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:57:10 +0000

I have friend’s Asus eee 701 with only 512 Mb of RAM and 2GB SSD storage. I would like to install Fedora 13 on this netbook and increase SDD performance and speed via btrfs and enabling compression.

I immediately stumbled upon some issues:
- Anaconda graphical installed doesn’t support 800×480 resolution
- Anaconda text installer fails on 2GB SDD
- No support for btrfs compression during the install

I reported these three issues:

RFE: Include btrfs compression option in Anaconda installed

Anaconda installed doesn’t fit Asus eee screen (800×480)

Anaconda text install fails on 2GB SSD

Any help with getting Fedora 13 installed on Asus eee 701 with btrfs + compression is more than welcome.

Fedora transparency?

valent — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:40:46 +0000

From what I have seen in this blog post looks like Ubuntu has gained option to have transparent GNOME windows.

I hope this feature goes upstream as fast as possible so that Fedora gets this great feature as soon as possible, maybe for Fedora 14? Anybody has some insight regarding Fedora and transparency?

mintMenu in Fedora

valent — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:42:00 +0000

LinuxMint is considered by many the best Linux desktop distribution, it is a Ubuntu based distribution and has some really great additions for desktop users on top of Ubuntu features. LinuxMint team has worked hard on porting mintMenu to Fedora.

mintMenu is currently stuck in review process, but hopefully it will come to Fedora repositories soon so everybody can test it and start using it.

We at Community Fedora Remix are looking into making mintMenu default Gnome menu for our next release.

Community Fedora Remix 12.3

valent — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:05:30 +0000

We would like to announce live DVD/USB release of Community Fedora Remix 12.3

* 100% compatible with Fedora
* Compiz Fusion compositing window manager
* KDE + GNOME desktops
* multimedia support out of the box (mp3 playback)
* additional XFCE desktop
* GNOME Do – intelligent application launcher (http://tinyurl.com/yntg9l)
* OpenOffice 3.1
* Inkscape, Scribus and GIMP 2.6
* Blender
* Evolution with native Exchange support (mapi)
* Thunderbird 3.0
* better hardware compatibility for broadcom wireless cards
* better printer hardware compatibility
* better games selection
* Educational and astronomy software installed
* Google Chrome Internet browser + Firefox
* wireless security tools (aircrack-ng and kismet)
* GPS and location apps (TangoGPS and tools)
* Nautilus in browser mode by default
* enabled clicking via touchpad by default
* optimized smaller iso image (1.7GB vs 2GB)
* many other enhancements

If you have any suggestion on how to make this Remix better and to get involved feel free to join us and make this Fedora Remix even better on our mailing list community-fedora-remix@googlegroups.com or via comments on this blog.

Torrent download: linux tracker and demonoid
direct download: coming soon

Fedora Chromium repo no more?

valent — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:36:32 +0000

Tom “spot” Callaway ~~Spot~~ has been mainataining Fedora Chromium repo, but now it is gone and there is no explanation on Tom’s ~~Spot’s~~ blog :(

UPDATE: But there is an explanation in README.txt file.

It looks like Chromium won’t be making its way to Fedora repos anytime soon because of Googles non-cooperation :(

To make things worse Community Fedora Remix included chromium repo by default and now updates are broken for lots of people because of that :(

Is there some new Chromium repo or is the only solution to install Google Chrome instead?

Tom ~~Spot~~ congrats to your wife and you on baby! Also on moving to a new house, I hope you continue maintaining chromium repo.

Community Fedora Remix 12.2

valent — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:58:34 +0000

We would like to announce live CD release of Community Fedora Remix 12.2

* 100% compatible with Fedora
* Compiz Fusion compositing window manager
* KDE + GNOME desktops
* multimedia support out of the box (mp3 playback)
* additional XFCE and Enlightenment desktops
* GNOME Do – intelligent application launcher (http://tinyurl.com/yntg9l)
* OpenOffice 3.1
* Inkscape, Scribus and GIMP 2.6
* Blender
* Evolution with native Exchange support (mapi)
* Thunderbird 3.0
* better hardware compatibility for broadcom wireless cards
* better printer hardware compatibility
* better games selection
* Educational and astronomy software installed
* Chromium Internet browser + Firefox
* wireless security tools (aircrack-ng and kismet)
* GPS and location apps (TangoGPS and tools)
* Nautilus in browser mode by default
* enabled clicking via touchpad by default
* optimized smaller iso image (1.7GB vs 2GB)
* many other enhancements

If you have any suggestion on how to make this Remix better and to get involved feel free to join us and make this Fedora Remix even better.

Download links:
direct download: http://iso.linux.hr/fedora-community-remix/

Fedora virtualization has rough edges

valent — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:28:57 +0000

After seeing lots of buzz about Virtualization improvements in Fedora 11 and 12 it was time to give it a try. I have experience using desktop virtualization over 10 years; mainly VMWare in beginning and in last few years mostly VirtualBox, but also qemu with kqemu via command line. VirtualBox is the preferable one because of it’s ease of use for desktop virtualization.

After installing virt-manager in Fedora 12 I hit first speed bump on the road to native linux virtualization – it failed to install libvirt (bug reported). Without libvirt virt-manager GUI just sits dead in the water. How such an obvious thing got unnoticed so far? Is anybody actually using virt-manager after installing Fedora 12 from live cd?

It was a simple thing to install libvirt and start the service, but something that basic should be done automatically. After starting virt-manager I was pleased with it clean looking UI.

The idea was to install Ubuntu and see how it performed in this virtual environment, but virt-manager only offers root partition as storage location of virtual image. That is just not acceptable for various reasons.

On my system root is used only for Fedora, also usually reformated on every new Fedora release. Root partition on my system is 10GB – plenty of room for Fedora but not for additional virtual images. There is no reason why virt-manager shouldn’t have a choice where to save your virtual images, I guess that I’m not the only one who would like to save virtaulization storage images in /home partition (bug reported).

After consulting qemu wiki it was a simple step of issuing qemu-img create -f qcow2 .virt-manager/ubuntu.img 6000M and choose that image in virt-manager. Installation went flawless, resizing VM display to fit my window worked great.

One thing that is missing are tools similar to VirtualBox Guest Additions that enable mouse to be used in both VM and on Fedora without VM needing exclusive right to use the mouse, and then pressing CTRL+ALT keys to ungrab the mouse to make is available on Fedora desktop again. And also clipboard sharing.

Native linux virtualization for desktops looks closer and closer to being a really nice experience, I know that virt-manager guys will fix these issues so go ahead and try it out and share your experience with it.

Fedora 13 as semantic desktop?

valent — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:30:06 +0000

Nautilus + Tracker tags integration

After viewing this video I tried enabling Fedora (Gnome) to have these semantic desktop features.

yum install nautilus-python tracker-search-tool tracker

After restarting nautilus I enabled nautilus sidebar but didn’t see this feature there. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

You can read about this feature more in this article: A Metadata Enabled GNOME

I also posted a bugzilla bug report regarding this issue and there is also a Fedora forum post also (not posted by me).

UPDATE:
After reading blog post from Debarshi some things got much more clear, so what we need is newer version of tracker in Fedora, this could be a cool new feature. Fedora 13 should have semanatic desktop features if it is possible, all Fedora users would surely appreciate that.