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Google wants http:// to die

valent — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:28:30 +0000

From what Google is doing in Chrome/Cromium browsers it is obvious that Google wants http to disappear. Google is saying that http confuses regular users, but that is just pure PR nonsense and a lie.

The real reason is that spdy:// would confuse users, but Google is spinning it a different way and Chrome/Chromium developers must do as Google tells them to do.

If you aren’t familiar with spdy:// it is a new and protocol that is faster and better than http protocol for browsing, it is developed by Google.

Spdy hasn’t gained much traction since it’s announcement, and none of major sites uses spdy protocol yet, so to make it ambiguous Google has decided to remove http from Chrome/Chromium browsers address bar thus causing lots of havoc.

Chromium developers aren’t listening to any comment and just ignore all issues that have been cropping up. For me first issue is that copy/paste of url links on Linux is broken, but there are more serious issues if you read through comments.

Now even commentig is disabled and on the bug page there is a message saying: “This issue is read-only. New comments cannot be added.” This is a really bad move from Chromium developers. The discussion was locked on first mention of spdy protocol.

The obvious solution to show http:// when users click on the address bar just isn’t what Google wants, no matter what users want.

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.

DockbarX in Fedora? Yes, please.

valent — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:06:15 +0000

DockbarX brings much needed advancement in terms of dockbar features, ease of use, features and usabillity. This is especially noticable on netbooks where screen real estate is much better handled in DockbarX than in any other dock for Gnome desktop.

DockbarX is DockBar (a TaskBar with grouping and group manipulation) with some “experimental” features. It is not a fork of DockBar. This is just a branch of DockBar holding new “experimental” features.

The goal of this branch is to bring new and innovative features to enhance the experience of using DockBar in the long run, rather than to bring stability in terms of predictable behavior from a release to the next.

The branch do aim to be as bug free as possible, though, and to be usable for everyday computer usage (for people who are not bothered by rapid changes).

I really hope DockbarX comes to Fedora repositories as soon as possible, this dock is much better than any other on Gnome and works great. Also there are some great themes for DockbarX.

You can also look at Gnome Look page for more info on DockbarX.

Retro čekićanje

valent — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:23:33 +0000

Ovu subotu smo imali zabavno druženje osječkog ogranka Hrvatske udruge Linux korisnika. Primarni cilj nam je bilo druženje i upoznavanje jer se većina ljudi zna samo preko forum prepiski.

Događaj je tematski bio posvećen Retro Linux Gamingu, a Teeworlds je kao igra pobrao najviše simpatija. Prostor nam je ustupio Tehnološko Razvojni Centar te im se još jednom zahvaljujemo na tome. Rado nam je poklonio licence za Galcon Fusion koje smo podijelili najboljima.

Zabave nije nedostajalo te ćemo vjerojatno uskoro ponoviti ovakvo neformalno druženje.

Par slika s događaja biti će na galeriji, Facebook grupi i na forumu.

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.

Moovida still not in Fedora :(

valent — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:03:23 +0000

I’m looking forward to seeing Moovida in Fedora, but currently it is stuck in bugzilla limbo :(

Currently Ubuntu has much better choice of multimedia and media center apps, that is why I hope Moovida gets in Fedora repos soon.

If you know somebody who would sponsor this packet please point him/her in the right direction.

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 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.