Fedora

As the year grows to a close I find myself finishing up projects and preparing for the new year. I put together roughly 90,000 lines of code this year on a single project with one other developer, probably split somewhere around 80/20. It is, as I’ve told him, our boss […]

Top ten things I’ve learned about software development

Mon December 15, 2008 in Software Development tagged dell / Fedora / gnome / GTK+ / holiday / java / jni / Linux / Open Source / patents / Wordpress / Writing (updated 2248 days ago)

Migrations to new releases of Fedora are not a huge problem for me since I use a separate partition for system files (including repository managed packages) and separate partitions for home directories (/home), multimedia files (/store and /music), and web server root directories (also under /home). About the only […]

Migrating a MythTV server from pre-Fedora 10 to Fedora 10

Sat November 29, 2008 in General tagged atrpms / Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / hauppauge / holiday / ivtv / Linux / livna / multimedia / mysql / MythTV / rpm / ubuntu / Video / Wordpress / Writing / yum (updated 5963 days ago)

If you hadn’t heard, Fedora and Red Hat systems had a break in of sorts that impacted their software repositories. I don’t quite understand the details but apparently nothing bad happened except that they need to create a new GPG key to sign their software packages. That means that all […]

The Fedora signing key issue – a plan for users

Thu August 28, 2008 in Fedora / Linux tagged Fedora / lwn (updated 6089 days ago)

After installing F9 I had to go through the process of reinstalling all my old multimedia tools. Fedora doesn’t generally include support for playing MP3s or DVDs so you have to install them from alternate repositories such as Livna or ATrpms. I’d written up how to do this in the […]

Fedora 9 postinstall: multimedia dependencies, sounds and other annoyances

Sat August 16, 2008 in Fedora / Linux / MythTV tagged atrpms / Fedora / livna / multimedia / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum (updated 6102 days ago)

My Epson Style 740 finally gave out earlier this year, joining a Lexmark E210 laser printer that had given out before that. That left me without a printer (though my wife has two nice printers for her graphics design business). So I decided to get a low end model for […]

A new printer: Epson Style Photo R280

Thu August 14, 2008 in Fedora / Linux / Open Source tagged epson / Fedora / GIMP / gnome / graphics / Linux / printing / r280 / rpm / yum (updated 6103 days ago)

I’ve gotten into the habit of skipping every other Fedora release since that lets me skip doing upgrades every year.Â I feelÂ a little more productive that way.Â Most especially since I have lots of boxes at home doing special things (development, httpd staging, MythTV servers and frontends, etc).Â Well, […]

Fedora 9 upgrade but a GNOME downgrade

Sun August 10, 2008 in Fedora / Linux tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / Linux / MythTV / nvidia / Writing

I made notes on my upgrade from 0.20 to 0.21. The software upgrade is clean but the runtime is somewhat broken on two of my three frontends. These are my (raw) notes. Upgrading to MythTV 0.21 All upgrading was done via the ATrpms repository which provided the previous release (0.20) […]

MythTV 0.21: problems with playback profiles

Wed March 12, 2008 in Linux / MythTV tagged acer / atrpms / epia / Fedora / intel / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum

I keep running into this problem and I decided it was time to make notes on how I resolve it. The problem is that I’ve used the methods I’ve described previously to include missing multimedia support in Fedora 7 and when I do updates I run into this problem: Error: […]

Updating xine with DVD playback (or how to deal with ...

Wed March 12, 2008 in Linux / MythTV tagged Fedora / graphics / livna / multimedia / rpm / yum

I got an interesting question the other day that I thought might be of value to the general public. The requestor thought there might be a problem with the Linux scheduler, but that really wasn’t the issue: I’m using FEDORA 7 at work and I have run into a problem […]

Sockets vs pipes vs ordinary files

Mon January 28, 2008 in Linux / Software Development tagged Fedora / Linux

I’m building Minimyth on a number of machines in order to debug a problem with the build I’m having on Fedora 7. The machines are running FC5 and FC6 and are on an internal network that connects to the Internet via a proxy. Minimyth’s source is a build system whose […]

A little tip: wget through a proxy

Tue November 06, 2007 in Linux / MythTV / Software Development tagged Fedora / Linux / proxy

I’m finally getting back to using my Epia M10000 board as a MythTV frontend. The goal here is to configure it to run with a CF card for booting and a wireless card to communicate with the backend, and use the TV-output connected to our TV in the living room. […]

Bringing up MiniMyth on an EPIA M10000 using wireless

Sun October 21, 2007 in EPIA-M / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / Software Development / Via Motherboards tagged epia / Fedora / graphics / Linux / MythTV / Video / wifi (updated 6402 days ago)

My main system at work is up to date now, thanks to some help with missing multimedia tools and various other applications. Two sites helped with this: The Fedora 7 Installation Guide and Fedora 7: Installing multimedia Support. Both are well written and very helpful, but not absolutely complete. Neither […]

Fedora 7: The missing applications

Wed October 17, 2007 in Linux / Open Source tagged atrpms / Fedora / graphics / livna / multimedia / rpm / yum (updated 6406 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

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