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Fedora at LinuxCon Europe 2015
This week, another edition of LinuxCon Europe took place in Dublin and as always Fedora was there. The Linux Foundation confirmed our booth quite late, just two weeks before the event, so we didn’t have a lot of time for preparation. On the other hand, we got the stand and three passes for free which…
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Brno will host LibreOffice Conference 2016!
So I can finally share publicly that Brno will host LibreOffice Conference 2016. After GUADEC 2013 and Akademy 2014, it’s the third major desktop conference that will take place in Brno. The venue will be the campus of Faculty of Information Technologies of Brno University of Technology which is one of the major computer science…
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How ABRT helped us make Fedora Workstation more stable
Last week, the official Fedora Project account asked users on social networks why Fedora is their distribution of choice. Probably the most frequent answer was that Fedora is THE GNOME distro, that it has the best supported GNOME, which really made me happy, but what made me even happier was that I found a lot…
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Fedora Group Chat on Telegram
I created a Telegram group chat for Flock 2015 and it turned out to be very popular. Around 70 people joined the chat which is half the attendance of the conference. It was also pretty useful, some found an adapter to borrow, some found a ride back to Boston etc. When Flock was over, I…
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Where is Fedora Magazine most popular?
Matthew’s keynote at Flock 2015 contained a lot of data about the status of Fedora. One of the stats that caught my attention was what countries draw the highest number of views at Fedora Magazine. There are not many surprises. The United States are leading by a large margin. Big countries such as Germany, UK,…
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I’m going to GUADEC and Flock!
Tomorrow, I’m traveling to GUADEC 2015 which is held in Göteborg, Sweden. It’s going to be my 4th GUADEC and the location is kinda special to me. When I was a kid and was a lot into football, my most favorite goalkeeper was Thomas Ravelli who played for IFK Göteborg which thus became my favorite…
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Most popular web browsers among Fedora users
Google Chrome is the most popular browser in the world. It is so popular that some call it a new Internet Explorer. But that’s based on global stats. In Red Hat, I’m responsible for web browsers, so I wondered what are the most popular web browsers among Fedora users. So I asked through Fedora accounts…
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Growth of Fedora Repository Has Almost Stalled
I went across statistics from Fedora Package Database and what caught my attention is that the increase of number of packages in the official Fedora repository has almost stalled: The number of packages in Fedora 22 is 17021 and is not going much since Fedora 20. Does it mean there are no more projects worth…
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Chrome and missing key
Are you using Chrome in Fedora? You might have noticed messages about a missing public key and you may have encountered problems with updating the application. That’s because Google fails to provide the public key for the Chrome RPM package. It’s become a serious problem in Fedora 22 where it aborts the update process completely…
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FUDCon APAC 2015 in Pune
I had the pleasure to attend my second FUDCon APAC, in Pune, India this time. I arrived the day before the conference at the airport in Bombay where I met Tuan. After four tiring hours, we arrived to Pune and met Kushal. My contribution to the conference was a keynote on Fedora Workstation. I found…