(Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog
August 24, 2014
Hi guys, my name is Fabio Alessandro Locati and I’m a Fedora packager involved in multiple packages. Also I’m in the process of becoming an Ambassador.
This is my first blog post on Planet Fedora and I think I’ll post here mainly about the packages I’m involved with. I will also, sometimes, blog about events, Fedora and Linux in general!
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August 24, 2014
One of my clients asked me to upgrade their MySQL 5.1 installation to MariaDB 10. This caused some problems mainly due to the fact that many MySQL clients are not MariaDB 10 ready. An example of a MySQL client not yet ready for MariaDB 10 is Innotop.
Innotop is a widely used client for MySQL/MariaDB that shows you an interface similar to the “top” Unix command. To solve this, I found a patch online and, after some testing, I’ve added it to the Fedora package.
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July 23, 2011
The EeePc 1015PN, at least the European version, comes with these two video cards:
The first one is a nice Intel integrated card that allows you to have good performance in the 99.9% of the typical netbook user-cases.
In the other hand, the Nvidia ION is way more powerful than the integrated Intel card.
ION is capable of running HD videos, full-screen Youtube HD videos, games, and much more.
The downside of the nVidia card is the power drain.
This version of ION does drain 600mA more than the Intel integrated card.
These 600mA, as you can imagine, need also to be dissipated, forcing the vent to spin at its maximum speed.
Even with the vent at the maximum speed, the temperature increases from the 4055°C (idle with ION deactivated) to 65~80° (idle with ION active).
Therefore I’ve created a script that keeps ION deactivated by default and allows the user to active it when is needed and stop it when is no more needed.
April 23, 2006
About one year and a half ago, I tried Fedora Heidelberg (Fedora Core 3), but it did not last too much on my machine because I was eager to test Ubuntu Warty Warthog.
Fedora Bordeaux (Fedora Core 5) got released about one month ago, and I immediately installed it. It has been a month now since I’ve installed it, and I like it. I feel that I’ll be using Fedora for a long time because I found an environment that feels right to me for the first time.
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