Packaging Session

 June 7, 2025 -  Praha, CZ

FESCO Q&A

 June 5, 2025 -  Praha, CZ

Upcoming Events: CEC, Flock, and DevConf.cz

 May 31, 2025

In the coming couple of weeks I’ll be heading to the Common Europe Congress (CEC2025), Flock 2025, and DevConf.cz 2025, some of the best community-driven events in the ecosystem. If you’re around, let’s catch up and share stories over coffee!

Common Europe Congress 2025 (Gothenburg, June 2–4)

The Common Europe Congress is the largest educational convention for IBM Power users in Europe. This year it’s taking place at the Gothia Towers in Gothenburg, Sweden. I’ll be there from June 2nd through the 4th, and I have two sessions lined up:

Fedora on Scaleway Dedibox with bootc

 March 31, 2025

For a while now, I’ve been looking into optimizing and reorganizing some of the infrastructure that powers my self-hosting services. After evaluating a few alternatives, Scaleway’s Dedibox lineup caught my attention: it is a European company with good hardware and decent pricing.

However, as with every good solution, it is not perfect. Scaleway does not provide Fedora as an OS option for their Dedibox machines. They offer a decent selection, including Rocky Linux, Debian, and Ubuntu — but no Fedora. Now, if you know me, you know that Fedora is not just my distro of choice — it’s the one I trust for both personal and professional projects.

Upcoming Events: CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and CfgMgmtCamp

 January 31, 2025

The next few days are shaping up to be packed with open-source goodness! I’ll be heading to CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and CfgMgmtCamp, three of the best events in the ecosystem. These conferences always include a great mix of technical talks, hallway conversations, and spontaneous meetups with friends—both old and new.

If you’re around, let’s catch up!

• CentOS Connect (Brussels, January 31)
  Although the event run yesterday and today, I’ll only be able to attend today. CentOS Connect is a small but incredibly valuable event where the wider CentOS community (Fedora, CentOS, and all the Enterprise Linux distros) meets to discuss the space’s present and future. It’s a great opportunity to meet contributors, learn about upcoming changes, and exchange ideas with people who shape the CentOS ecosystem. I really like this event because its atmosphere is similar to Flock: very casual and more like a friends’ gathering than a conference.

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Nebula VPN split configuration

 October 31, 2024

We have had Nebula VPN within the Fedora repositories for a couple of years. A couple of months ago, I changed the default systemd service unit. More specifically, this is the change:

-ExecStart=/usr/bin/nebula -config /etc/nebula/config.yml
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/nebula -config /etc/nebula

Although the change is only a few characters, this change allows for a much more flexible use of Nebula. Before this change, the configuration could only be placed in the config.yaml file. After this change, all YAML files in the folders will be read, merged, and used as configuration.

La strada verso l'immutabilità di sistemi Linux

 October 26, 2024 -  Milano, IT

Fedora CoreOS on Hetzner Dedicated server

 October 19, 2023

Over the last few years, I’ve moved many of my systems to Immutable versions of Fedora. One of the last systems still missing was my Hetzner Dedicated server. The blocking part for me was that Hetzner is not offering any Fedora or Immutable options.

However, Hetzner provides the Rescue System, which is a Debian system, so it is possible to leverage it!

After rebooting in Rescue mode: Go to Hetzner Robot. Select the proper server. Go to the “Rescue” tab. Click “Activate rescue system” after properly selecting the Public Key and keyboard layout. You can now reboot the machine, and after it boots back up, you can log in to the Rescue System.

Sway Spin and Sericea update

 August 2, 2023 -  Tivoli, IE

Fedora on Pine64 ROCKPro64

 May 29, 2023

Recently, I was looking for a couple of Single Board Computers (SBCs) for a project I’m working on. Given the characteristics I was looking for, there were not many options; in the end, I opted for the ROCKPro64 by Pine64.

Once I received the SBC, I immediately tried to put Fedora on it. The process proved slightly more complex than I was expecting since I assumed that U-Boot (or some other boot loader) was already present on the board. Turns out, it is not! So, the first step became installing U-Boot. An aspect I really like about the ROCKPro64 is that it has 128Mb of Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Flash memory. I appreciate this fact because it allows me to install U-Boot there and then a standard OS on another storage device. Speaking of other storage devices, the ROCKPro64 features both an optional eMMC and the mSD Card slot. The process turned out more complex than I initially thought since my goal was to use Fedora on the eMMC, but I forgot to get the eMMC USB adapter, so I had to leverage the mSD Card as well.