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Fedora Packaging Workshop for Beginners
A week ago, I wrote that we wanted to organize a packaging workshop and asked for feedback. Well, thank you, I received a lot of answers. And here we go, we formed the first workshop: Because there were big differences in packaging experience, we decided to actually make to workshops – one for beginners and one…
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Fedora Packaging Workshop in Brno
I’ve decided to organize a Fedora packaging workshop in Brno offices of Red Hat. The workshop will be taught by the most experienced package maintainers in our office. And it has two main goals: To learn how to make an RPM package for Fedora/RHEL right. To learn how to get a package approved to the…
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What Desktop Environments Are Czech Fedora Users Using?
Yesterday, I posted results of a survey to find out what distributions and desktop environments Linux users are using. Today, I asked the editor-in-chief of Root.cz for figures solely for Fedora to find out what desktop environments Czech users of Fedora are using. Here are the results (and comparison with figures for Ubuntu from the…
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User Bases of Linux Distributions in the Czech Republic
The biggest Czech Linux magazine Root.cz organized a survey to find out what distributions Linux users are using on desktops. There were 4423 answers which I think is quite a lot from statistical point of view. And here are the results: I expected Ubuntu to have the largest user base. But still, such dominance is…
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LinuxTag 2012
At the end of May, I and Jarda Řezník visited the biggest Linux event in Europe – LinuxTag in Berlin. Like last year, we were there to help at Fedora booth. The booth was a bit smaller and we had to share it with CentOS guys this year. On the other hand, there was a…
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1600 km and three F17 release parties in five days
I set a pretty hard goal for myself this year – to organize three Fedora 17 release parties in three different cities. The last release party in Brno was really crowded, close to limits of our office rooms. So I decided to try other cities, too. Prague was an obvious option because it’s far the…
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160 kg of beefiness
A 160 kg package of beefy stuff arrived to our office today. It was a job for 4 guys to get it upstairs (who said software has no weight? 🙂 ). Anyway, we’re starting to make media packages to ship them ASAP. So hold on, dear Fedora Ambassadors in EMEA, the Beefy Miracle is coming!…
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Summer Internship in Red Hat – update
Two weeks ago, I wrote about an opportunity to do a summer internship in Red Hat Czech. The interest was huge. The post was read by almost 7,000 people and we got many applications. Today, I’ve got a few updates for you: Schedule for tests that will take place in our office (Purkynova 99/71, 612…
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Summer Internship in Red Hat
Looking for a summer job? Red Hat Czech (based in Brno, Czech Republic) is opening intern positions for this summer! Do you code in Java, C, Python, Ruby, Perl, or Bash? Would you be willing to spend 15-20 hours a week on development and testing? Looking for a way to try what working for Red…
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State of Czech Linux Community
The more I look outside the Czech Republic the more I’m surprised how strong the Linux community in the Czech Republic. We always looked at our neighbour – Germany, where there are huge events such as LinuxTag and a lot of active FLOSS contributors, and felt there is not much going on in the Czech…