Fedora
lekhonee v0.6 released
I just released lekhonee v0.6 . Download the source.
For RPM(s) , download from koji.
New features and fixes:
- Preview option fixed in the KDE based frontend, old menu based options removed
- Editing option for the last 10 blog posts. Users please tell me if you need to get more
- Insert Link error in the gnome frontend is fixed
- Add categories is also working under gnome frontend (forgot to write code in the last release)
- “Save Draft” option on the gnome frontend is also working (Again forgot to write the code)
If you want to go back from the “Old Posts” list in the gnome frontend , just select anything the list and press “Escape”, in KDE one, there is a button on top to handle this.
To edit the entries you have to double click on the post title.
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pyexiv2 problem in rawhide
pyexiv2 is the python extension of Exiv2 library. It helps to find the EXIF information from an image.
The current rawhide version is broken, it just can not be imported.
[kdas@d80 ~]$ python
Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Mar 17 2009, 11:44:21)
[GCC 4.4.0 20090313 (Red Hat 4.4.0-0.26)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pyexiv2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyexiv2.py", line 60, in <module>
import libexiv2python
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libexiv2python.so: undefined
Tried to find what that symbol is using c++filt
[kdas@d80 ~]$ c++filt _ZNK5Exiv29Exifdatum6typeIdEv Exiv2::Exifdatum::typeId() const
Now is this a very new pyexiv2 which contains symbols from latest exiv2-lib or a problem itself ? The bug is here.
Update: It seems to be a local symbol. It comes from exiv2-lib only , but it shows as local with “notype” from the eu-readelf output :(
How to install Soas on your regular box
Soas (Sugar on a Stick) is a LiveUSB system with sugar on it. It is based on Fedora. You can carry it and boot anywhere as you want like any other live system. You can download the ISO from here.
I was using it on a Eee PC (4GB model), suddenly thought of installing it on the system.
The other Fedora based systems have an option on desktop to install on hard disk, but this system is running sugar so no desktop means no such option. From the #fedora-devel I found the command is “liveinst” which is part of anaconda.
So I installed anaconda ( #yum install anaconda ) and then used the command “liveinst” ( without quotes) , this will fire up the installer for you. Then go through like any other installation.
After finishing the installation I found X was crashing, tried with many different config but nothing helped. Finally decided to install gdm and gnome on that box ( #yum install @gnome-desktop gdm ), also installed system-switch-displaymanager using which I changed the display manager to gdm. Next task was to change the init to 5 in inittab. Rebooted and found gdm , chose “sugar” as the desktop option and logged in :)
If you want any help come to #sugar on freenode.
“I am Fedora”
Here is a small video, enjoy :)
What else we did at foss.in
We talked and talked and kept on :) foss.in is a great event to meet all your friends and I love that part a lot. In day 1 after reaching the venue as we were standing just outside the main gate other speakers also started coming. Pradeepto landed with Sharan, Adriaan and Sayamindu were also there. We all went together towards the 750 hall for Harald‘s keynote which was as good as expected.
After the keynote we all moved out, the kde-in local team (BMS lug people) also joined us and managed to setup the KDE stall with full of awesome posters including amarok posters :) We, the fedora people also sat down on the ground in the same stall and as they ran out of CDs I started putting Fedora 9 live CD to distribute. Rest of the day we just talked on everything. All other friends also came and joined us there. The hot topic of the first was the kde handbook. After the day ends we started moving out. At night I went through the details for my talk.
The second day started with Sayamindu’s talk on “Coding for education, coding for the last one billion“, this talk helped me personally a lot as I was not so much familiar with Sugar. He started with very basic details on Sugar and went on to the code level. After that we again came to the stall and put the XO(s) on the desk , Sayamindu was carrying two and I carrying one from office. It suddenly became a huge crowd puler as everyone was too much excited to see those little green wonders. We also distributed lot of stickers and live cds. My talk was scheduled just after lunch on the same day on “Getting Started with OLPC Activity Development” and this time I made only one jpeg image as slide (which I forgot to show anyway). I started vim and started to talk :) Within my talk I also copied code from Sayamindu’s Imageviewer and used it in my Jukebox to add a new feature. The talk was too much code oriented and no one asked a single question in the end. The review-o-matic workout was also started in the same time of my talk, my only contribution in that workout was giving git commit rights to rishi. tuxmaniac also joined the group from 2nd day.
Next day was full of KDE, we had some superb entry level talks on different parts of KDE and some high level ones also. Me and Soumya already made a plan to work on maps for Kgeography (Soumya made total 3 which I need to commit) and sat down in the stall with others , OLPCs were working as crowd puller anyway :) Someone suddenly came and told that he liked my talk :) Susmit also joined the Fedora team that day. At night we all went together to “Rasa” for dinner. Veg and Non veg people sat in different table and somehow we managed to make a hilarious scene while dividing the bill.
Day 4 we spent while chasing people with video camera and doing interviews and funny interviews :p . Again almost the whole day was spent in the stall , somehow people were really less in that day.
Everyone was tired on day 5 (usual story in the last day of any event). Kalyan’s end keynote was really mind blowing. I am trying to put the video up somewhere. The full photo set can be found here.
Also read Sayamindu’s report and Soumya’s report.
Through my lenses: FOSS.IN 2008
You can find my event report here (11MB). This is my first try to make something like this. Nicu helped a lot with my poor spelling mistakes. Comments are welcome.