February 29, 2016
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the biggest public cloud provider and has released a set of tools to help out sysadmins and developers for integrating with their infrastructure.
The three tools we are going to discuss in this article are three of AWS’s most-used and well-known tools:
- botocore: Low-level Python library
- boto3: High level Python library
- awscli: Command-line interface written in Python
All those tools are currently available in Fedora (22+) and EPEL (7).
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February 8, 2016 - Brno, CZ
My last day at Brno has come, and I took the bus to Wien Airport, where I later got a plane to Milan.
Overall, this was a very nice experience.
I’ve met a lot of very interesting people and a lot of people I already knew but only by their IRC and FAS name.
It’s always nice to be able to give faces to the names you always read.
I really look forward for the next Fedora Event that probably it will be Flock 2016 for me.
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February 7, 2016 - Brno, CZ
Today there were a lot of Fedora talks and sadly I was not able to see them all since there were two Fedora tracks.
The most interesting talk I’ve assisted today was probably the Denise Dumas and Matthew Miller one about Fedora.
Being the last day of the conference, it ended earlier so we (EMEA Ambassadors) were able to gather and meet to work a little bit on the 2017 budget.
This was still pending because this year we were not able to meet at the usual FAD designed to make decisions for the Ambassadors budget.
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February 6, 2016 - Brno, CZ
Today I spent the morning looking at very interesting sessions mainly about containers.
Probably the most interesting talk of the day has been the one by Josh Bressers about security.
In the afternoon I’ve had a very pleasant meeting with the Fedora Internationalization team to see where the various community are and what we can do to improve the current situation.
Later I went to the party, but having misinterpreted the situation, I walked with Patrick and Ralph to their meeting place before going to the right location.
Walking with Patrick and Ralph has been very interesting.
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February 5, 2016 - Brno, CZ
This morning things started in the right way.
My day started with Tim Burke’s talk and it was very interesting.
After that talk, I attended the Adam Miller talk about immutable infrastructures and Daniel Walsh talk about Docker vs Systemd and I enjoyed them all :).
Later on I had a very nice hallway talk with Remy DeCausemaker about local communities and translations, followed by an actual meeting about globalization in Fedora.
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February 4, 2016 - Brno, CZ
Few days past from FOSDEM and I’m at yet another conference!
Today I flew to Wien and then took a train to Brno.
After the hotel check-in I went to the conference location and I had a nice time with the Red Hat people while we were preparing the location for the event.
The majority of the work was already done when I arrived, but few things were still missing (mainly indications to make users life easier like arrows pointing to the rooms, schedules, etc) so I got the opportunity to help :).
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January 27, 2016
A couple of weeks ago, I’ve announced the availability of AWS tools for Fedora.
I’m very happy to announce that today they are available in the EPEL7 repository as well.
The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository is an RPM repository managed by the Fedora community that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Scientific Linux (SL), and Oracle Linux (OL).
As you can imagine, the 7 stays for the version, so only the version 7.x of the named distributions will allow you to install those packages.
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January 16, 2016
In the last few weeks I’ve worked toward bringing the Amazon Web Services tools in Fedora.
The three AWS tools that are coming in the next few days in Fedora are:
- botocore: a low level Python library to interact with Amazon Web Services APIs
- boto3: a high level Python library to interact with Amazon Web Services APIs
- awscli: a Command Line Interface to interact with Amazon Web Services APIs
Botocore just landed in Fedora updates repositories while boto3 and awscli will be pushed to the updates repository tomorrow or Monday morning.
If you want to see them in the repo even sooner test them and give feedbacks, in this way Bodhi will allow those packages to be pushed to the stable repository if feedbacks are positive.
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December 22, 2015
Innotop is a tool that allows you to control the status of a MySQL/MariaDB database.
It is widely used since it shows the data with an interface very similar to the top one.
Lately it’s development has slowed down, but small changes do come regularly.
The biggest change this time (compared to the 1.10.0-0.2 version) is the addition of a patch that allows innotop to work properly with MariaDB 10.1 and 10.2 that has recently hit the Fedora 24 repositories.
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December 18, 2015
In the last few weeks I’ve worked toward bringing qBittorrent 3.3.1 to Fedora and EL7.
Today I’ve requested the stable branch for Fedora 23 and in the next few days I’ll do the same for Fedora and EL7.
Why am I writing about it instead of just leaving the updates come to you with the classical “dnf update”? Simply because this is a huge and very interesting update.
The biggest change in this update has been the switch from Qt4 to Qt5.
It should be pretty stable since qBittorent has been able to compile against Qt5 for more than one year and Fedora already has a lot of Qt5 packages.
So why waiting for such a long period before switching Qt version in Fedora packages?
We decided to respect the upstream decision to wait, so we switched to the Qt5 dependency when they did it.
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