Linux conferences are one of the best ways to meet people from the community and also meet people that you have worked with for years but never in person. The Fedora Unity team openly welcomes submissions for conference banners we should have on our site. Contact us via #fedora-unity and we'll work on getting the banner up to help promote the events that we all go to and enjoy.

Fedora Unity Releases Pastebin Updates

Updates included in this release:

• Captcha Support - Viewing of expired pastes is now possible by filling out a captcha.
• User Preferences - It is now possible to set preferences for "author" and "expires".
• User Paste History - Users may now see a list of their own pastes, and delete pastes they own.
• Bot Protections - We have implemented a few things to auto-ban abusive IP addresses.
  

Fedora Unity Updates Pastebin

If you have some extra bandwidth, consider helping host the new Re-Spin torrents. Fedora Unity still prefers Jigdo because it allows us to utilize bandwidth from existing public mirrors, but some people prefer torrents.

If you happen to find something that doesn't work or you receive any errors, please file a bug.

Apologies from all of us at Fedora Unity. We had a hardware failure on our primary dedicated server and have now restored most services. We are going to be populating the server with the Re-Spin in testing (watch the Test-Team list for updates) and should have the pastebin back up over the weekend. Spread logging still needs to be setup again and a few other things are needing to be finished. Please file bugs for any services you notice that are still not working. Thanks!

We here at Fedora Unity have been updating a few of our systems. Included in those systems are our Plone based sites and our TurboGears based pastebin. A few changes arn't too important, rather just maintenance and updates. However there have been some changes that will be more noticeable. Feedback welcome.

Fedora Branded Pastebin

Our pastebin has been in "development" for some time now. Apologies for that, however we have made some good progress on the system this weekend. The most noticeable changes are going to be the minor CSS updates. We are hoping that the backend changes make the site run much, much faster but not everyone notices things like that. We are still working to move the instance to mod_wsgi but that might not happen this weekend. We have changed the backend SQL store to MySQL so we can actually do multi-threading (previously we were using sqlite.) This change alone should speed things up, but we also made a change to serve all static content via apache rather then cherrypy. This change should free up requests to cherrypy and increase the number of requests we can process a second. The following ProxyPass config for Apache might help others at some point:

Alias /static /var/www/fpaste/stickum/static
ProxyPass /static ! 
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:7278/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:7278/

This configuration basically proxies all requests that do not match /static to a cherrypy server running on port 7278 and also translates any links returned from the cherrypy server from 127.0.0.1:7278 to the ServerName directive in the config.

Plone Sites

on FreeNode.

(note: as of 7/17/08 the current production run is sold out; the next batch will be available 7/25/08)

As FUDCon F10 approaches, I find myself divided between wanting to go as a developer and presenting a barcamp item for the projects I have going and then just going as a Fedora user. I don't think I would ever be able to go to a FUDCon/Redhat Summit as just a user anymore and thus I've been working on sorting out what it is I would like to submit as a barcamp item. As I did last FUDCon, I'm leaning more towards going the route of presenting along side Jeroen again and then just being available to discuss any of my projects ad-hoc rather then a formal barcamp item. However, I think I need more feedback from the community regarding pyJigdo and where I should focus my limited number of Fedora development hours. If anyone is interested in pyJigdo and making it work right, please let me know. I don't want to waste a barcamp session, my time or anyone elses. A pyJigdo session will likely be very technical and might be better suited for a hackfest session over a presentation slot. Anywho, let us (Fedora Unity) know. I'll need a little time to do up some slides and other "best practices" for presenting otherwise I end up just putting code up on the projector and giving an overview of what it does and why and then asking for feedback on the concepts.

FUDCon F10 is going to be one of the best FUDcons so far. It looks like we are going to have a large precense of Fedora community members. I'm also looking forward to making myself available to Redhat Summit attendees that show up for the FOSS track. If you are still undecided about going, go. FUDCon is an amazing way to meet the people you interact with every day on mailing lists, irc and otherwise (such as SCM commits.) It's also where The Next Great Thing(tm) is discussed, designed and developed. Maybe someone with more time then myself will be able to count LOC changed during the duration of FUDCon and the Redhat Summit. It would be an interesting metric.

What is a 'meme'?

My Results:

[jon@damaestro ~]$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -nr|head
221 ./pyjigdo.py
126 vi
98 git
91 dig
60 ll
45 cd
41 rpmbuild
36 mock
31 rm
23 rpm

[jon@damaestrojr ~]$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -nr|head
118 ll
114 vi
84 ssh
83 ./transit-schedule-scrape.py
77 cd
70 git
68 dig
67 exit
38 sudo
29 rm

After a long time of being offline...

We here at Fedora Unity have finally found the time to revive the long lost Fedora Sites Search portal. We need feedback and feature requests to make the system worth-while and functional. The basic concept is back online and will be improving more and more over time.

I want to try it!

Why change what works?

Well, that were my exact thoughts too. I've used xmms for all my streaming needs since I found out about it when I started using Linux. It works, why change? I will tell you, the audacious interface blows the xmms interface away and welcomes the xmms (bmp) code base to the 21st century.

What about non-free support?

There are many plugins and Livna has you covered.

Available Packages:

audacious
audacious-libs
audacious-plugins
audacious-devel  
audacious-docklet
audacious-plugin-fc
audacious-plugins-amidi
audacious-plugins-arts
audacious-plugins-esd
audacious-plugins-jack
audacious-plugins-metronome
audacious-plugins-nonfree-aac
audacious-plugins-nonfree-alac
audacious-plugins-nonfree-lame
audacious-plugins-nonfree-mms
audacious-plugins-nonfree-mp3
audacious-plugins-nonfree-tta
audacious-plugins-nonfree-wma
audacious-plugins-pulseaudio
audacious-plugins-vortex
audacious-plugins-wavpack
 

yum install audacious

 
Home Page: http://audacious-media-player.org

Fedora Unity has been waiting for Quills to make it to a somewhat stable point and that point is now. I've been waiting for Quills to work on Plone 3 since the release of Plone 3. All in all, Quills is impressing me and was worth the wait. We look forward to enabling the Fedora Community to easily share their experiences. Look for more features soon!

On another note...