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• Fedora SELinux policy for Passenger
  Another great news for all Ruby programmers who are using Fedora Linux and are stuck from AVC generated by SELinux when trying to use mod_rails AKA Passenger. If you wanted to use Fedora as a deploying platform for Ruby projects based on Rack (typically Rails or Sinatra) before, you got stuck with two options. First was installing Passenger using gem install […]
• Fedora 14 Beta End Game
  One week from today, September 14, 2010, we reach Feature Complete for Fedora 14.  It also signals the start of preparations for the Beta release. Here’s how things will role from here towards the public release of the Fedora 14 Beta: 09-Sept :: Test Compose–Release Engineering Creates a “test” compose for QA to run tests on. This is helps make to make sure […]
• Tip: Pack files into a new disk image
  Note: This requires libguestfs ≥ 1.4 If files/ is a directory containing some files, you can create a new disk image populated with those files using the command below (virt-make-fs can also be used for this): $ guestfish -N fs:ext2:400M -m /dev/sda1 tar-in […]
• OSSMath – OSOL Lab of Szeged
  This is an interesting development takes ahead currently. Inside the University of Szeged Sofware Development department has 2 hungarian developer who works on an spin called OSSMath. Namely Janos Viragh és Zoltán Kovacs, and yes – they have chosen for base our beloved Fedora 13 (Goddard) distribution – and they taking very good advancing. OSSMath targets to […]
• Kicking off the Fall Quarter at RIT
  This morning I was able to attend the first session of RIT's Humanitarian FOSS class. As some of you know, the class has been running since Spring of 2009, but this time around it seemed like a much better start than we've had over the previous quarters the class is run. While I'd like to point you to the one thing that has me feeling more pos […]