There are 9 articles tagged as "fedora"

Visual sudo for shell scripts

on November 06, 2017. in Development, Software. A 2 minute read.

The other day I was putting together a small shell script to do some administrative tasks on my Fedora workstation.

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Issues with Vagrant after upgrading to Fedora 25

on December 24, 2016. in Development, Software. A 2 minute read.

Fedora 25 was released over a month ago, so I decided it was time to upgrade from 24.

Configure Fedora's firewall for Vagrant

on December 09, 2016. in Development, Software. A 2 minute read.

This one’s been in my drafts for a long time, might as well publish it.

Installing Python2 with Ansible

on June 29, 2016. in Development, Software. A 1 minute read.

Ansible uses Python2 to run the provisioning commands on the host machines. At this time it does not support Python3, which is the default python version in Fedora releases for quite some time now.

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This is the last post about the Thinkpad and Fedora. At least for a while. Promise.

This week I got myself a new laptop, a Thinkpad T540p. One of the features it has is that the battery’s life can be prolonged by setting custom charging thresholds.

Xdebug and private /tmp on Fedora

on December 16, 2014. in Development, Software, Programming. A 1 minute read.

This one was a bit weird and needed some figuring out. Xdebug profiler output files were not being generated in the /tmp directory.

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When a package update goes wrong

on February 06, 2013. in Development, Software. A 3 minute read.

I am running Fedora 17 on my laptop, and yesterday there were some packages to update. Nothing unusual, updates on Fedora are quite frequent and, up until yesterday, there was not a single problem I remember with any update. And it was a small update, four packages in total. What could possibly go wrong, right?

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Upgrading to Fedora 16

on November 12, 2011. in Development, Software. A 2 minute read.

Decided today to upgrade my laptop to Fedora 16, which was released a few days ago. I first switched to Fedora (with XFCE as the desktop environment) from Ubuntu in August, I think. An excellent decision as it is working really great for me. XFCE is also great, really happy that I made this switch.

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