knurd42

@knurd42@social.linux.pizza

Tooting about Free & Open source software, Fedora and its derivatives as well as IT in general – and sometimes about Life, the Universe, and Everything, too.

Topic account. Other accounts of mine:

https://fosstodon.org/@kernellogger (EN): #LinuxKernel and related areas like #mesa, #wayland, #qemu
https://norden.social/@thleemhuis (DE): Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest
https://social.tchncs.de/@thleemhuisfoss (DE): #FLOSS

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knurd42, (edited ) to fedora

The brand new 6.7[1] is now available in my vanilla repositories for .

To install it on @fedora, follow the instructions on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories#Install_the_latest_Linux_version_meant_for_end_users

[1] see https://fosstodon.org/@kernellogger/111718525521838527

1/ BTW: the…

knurd42,

2/ …kernel vanilla repos for Fedora finally started shipping the kernel-tools stuff recently (e.g. bpftool, perf, ...).

Furthermore, new mainline releases from now on are shipped in the stable repo again: it seems that's what people want/expect. It was like that until two or three years ago, but then I stopped doing that because the Linux stable team sometimes was slow to pick up maintenance for new mainline releases; but that situation improved a lot, so I'm rolling back.

knurd42, to RedHat

and get ready to regularly build and ship (aka ) packages: support for building them was merged to kernel-ark, which among others is the base for Fedora's kernel packages.

https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2403

https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/commit/263cc874a205ff99a65fc5611f2c9b058c139adf

The RT logic is currently disabled and will remain so until the remainder of the PREEMPT_RT patches are merged upstream.

knurd42, (edited ) to RedHat

It saddens me to see all the false claims and speculations about #RedHat's recent announcement in news stories from the #media and comments in forums.

Don't get me wrong. I don't like at all what #RedHat announced yesterday.

But a lot of people apparently now think of the change as something that is way worse than it actually is. This could have easily prevented by communicating the change and its impact more clearly and in a open, honest way.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream

knurd42, to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiUPD-z9DTg

knurd42, to random

Coming events cast their shadows before: the end is nigh!

knurd42, to random

I'm living in #Hannover for 25+ years now and know about the curved elevator in our town hall for nearly as long.

Still Tom Scott beat me, as he managed to visit it, while I have not…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgDBIzClmPg #TomScott #Elevator

knurd42, to fedora

The just released[1] #LinuxKernel 6.6 is now available in my #Kernel vanilla repositories for #Fedora:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories & https://www.leemhuis.info/files/kernel-vanilla/repostatus.txt

Reminder, it for now is only available in the "mainline-wo-mergew" copr[2]. The "stable" copr will continue to serve the latest release kernel.org lists with a "stable:" tag. That will be a 6.5.y release until #Linux 6.6.1 is published.

[1] https://fosstodon.org/@kernellogger/111322103512812916

[2] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/kernel-vanilla/mainline-wo-mergew/

knurd42, to random

#PipeWire 1.0 – An interview with @pipewire creator Wim Taymans. https://fedoramagazine.org/pipewire-1-0-an-interview-with-pipewire-creator-wim-taymans/

knurd42, to linux

"'"There's a decent number of laptops with #fingerprint readers that are supported by #Linux, and #Gnome has some nice integration to make use of that for authentication purposes. But if you log in with a fingerprint, the moment you start any app that wants to access stored passwords you'll get a prompt asking you to type in your password, which feels like it somewhat defeats the point. Mac users don't have this problem […] Why the difference?"'"

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/68537.html (by @mjg59)

knurd42, to random

The @opensuse project announced that there will be a new vote on the logo:

"[…] there is a plan to organize a vote between the current logo and the proposed new design, allowing our community to have a say in this important decision. Furthermore, members of the project are collaborating with SUSE on the implications of the branding initiatives and some have expressed the desire for SUSE’s input to ensure there is an aligned vision for the future of openSUSE. […]"

https://news.opensuse.org/2023/12/15/insights-from-the-os-logo-contest/

knurd42, to random 

But over the last few years, Ed Sheeran has been highlighting the ways in which […] modern copyright is stifling rather than incentivizing music creation — directly in contrast to what we’re told it’s supposed to be doing.```

<https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/08/ed-sheeran-once-again-demonstrates-how-modern-copyright-is-destroying-rather-than-helping-musicians/> #techdirt #EdSheeran
knurd42, (edited ) to opensource

Fun fact reg. the "#SUSE has an impressive legacy deeply rooted in the world of #opensource"[1] for those that don't remember:

Suse's Yast only became Open Source in 2004; before that the license forbade to use it in other distros.

https://www.heise.de/news/YaST-wird-freie-Software-95583.html (German)

[1] quote from https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse/110633130799606251

knurd42, to random

Happy Holidays!

#Prachett #TerryPrachett #Hogfather #Gifts

knurd42, to random

Things I like:

When my Linux machines are able to send me a mail when needed, for example when the automatic backup fails.

Things I hate:

Configuring my Linux machines to send emails to my regular Inbox, because it's painful.

knurd42,

@johanneskastl

To quote from my toot:
"""
A simple

thl baz@example.com

in /etc/postfix/generic afaics doesn't to the tick.
"""

But maybe I did something stupid while testing this.

knurd42,

@johanneskastl

yeah, that was the path I was heading towards to, too, but then life happened :-D

knurd42, to fedora

The page about the #kernel vanilla repositories for #Fedora #Linux now describes how to use the repos on #Silverblue and other Fedora variants based on rpm-ostree: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories#Instructions_for_immutable_Fedora-variants_like_Silverblue_or_Kinoite

There is just a problem: it doesn't really work well currently.

If you for example try to enable the mainline copr it will fail; if you do that on Fedora workstation, you will get the latest package from the mainline-wo-merge copr, as intended. With stable-rc it works, but you get an outdated kernel.

knurd42,

@siosm, if you have a minute, do you maybe have an idea how to work around the problem the toot above briefly mentions?

The problem happens because "rpm-ostree overlay replace --experimental --from repo=…" afaics does not handle copr runtime dependencies. Those are needed to properly support the kernel vanilla repositories, as the right packages for users of some of the coprs are sometimes found in coprs that are a runtime dependency.

Screenshot from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories#Linux_kernels_offered_in_the_six_kernel_vanilla_coprs

knurd42,

@siosm

I used that as base for some tests and the instruction linked in the initial toot, just omitted the "--freeze".

And for mainline-wo-mergew this will work correctly for round about 9 our of 10 weeks (e.g. when a new mainline release is out before the first stable release comes out, which then should be installed from the stable-rc and stable repos.

knurd42,

@siosm

Took me a few days, but did so now. Hopefully it describes the problem I face better.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/how-to-properly-use-the-kernel-vanilla-repos-on-rpm-ostree-based-fedora-variants/97581

knurd42, to fedora

For users of stable releases out there that might encounter a regression with 6.8-* (now or once it becomes stable):

My vanilla mainline now keeps all daily snapshots around that were build during the merge window. That way you won't have to bisect over the whole range of the merge window to find the culprit , as you can narrow down the bisection range easily with these really available packages.

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/kernel-vanilla/mainline/builds/

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories

knurd42,

Side note: yes, you can do the same with the rawhide builds found in koji as well. But those are not vanilla, which sometimes makes a difference (but in the Fedora case often does not).

https://kparal.wordpress.com/2023/08/15/bisecting-fedora-kernel/

knurd42, to random

This applies to people from some parts of northern Germany as well -- including the one I came from (which is just a few kilometres away from the border to the Netherlands anyway).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrEZwe1nbBU

knurd42, to GNOME

Pablo Correa Gomez: On how to fork a #GNOME Core app without meaning to do so

https://blogs.gnome.org/pabloyoyoista/2024/01/26/on-how-to-fork-a-gnome-core-app-without-meaning-to-do-so/

"'"And if you did not know already, that Core app is #Evince, now renamed to #Papers and submitted to Incubation this week. But if you’re still interested after the spoiler, let’s start from the beginning."'"

knurd42, to random

going to lose access to its image server: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a0db38ec-347d-4b26-97a2-e77d679f05fe@gentoo.org/

"'"[…] Canonical re-licensed LXD […] Because LinuxContainers community can't lean on to LXD, they've decided not to build and publish LXD images anymore. Non-LTS LXD will gradually start losing access to these images immediately in 2024, while LTS LXD is allowed until ~April-May of 2024 to have a fair chance migrating into LTS, which is expected to be out in April 2024. […]"'"

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