Posted on Fri 21 February 2014 in Blogging • Tagged with Mozilla, Open Source
Last week I read some posts about Mozillas thoughts to sell space for advertisement in their Firefox Browser. Of course I don't like advertisements in the web. And of course I don't like apps with a lot of advertisement and much more I don't like to be tracked on every …
Posted on Fri 31 January 2014 in Fedora • Tagged with kernel, security update, yum
Due to a known bug in Fedora 20 with some selinux updates I recognized a connected problem on my machine. While updating some packages I found this message:
Security: kernel-3.12.8-300.fc20.x86_64 is an installed security update Security: kernel-3.12.7-300.fc20.x86_64 is the currently running version …
Posted on Thu 16 January 2014 in Fedora, Programming, Qt • Tagged with Fedora, mesa, qt
To fix the "couldn't find IGL" error you probably get after installing Qt 5.2 package on Fedora 20 and you try to compile the first project, you should install the missing mesa package by running the following install command as root or using sudo:
sudo yum install mesa-libGL-devel -y …
Posted on Wed 15 January 2014 in Fedora • Tagged with Fedora, KVM, libvirtd, locale
Since I am using Fedora 20 now for a while on two machines I came over some smaller bugs with my configuration.
I installed my systems using the KDE spin and installed with en_US language but a german keyboard layout. It looks like something after installation on my workstation did …
Posted on Sat 04 January 2014 in Linux • Tagged with Fedora, Linux, upgrade
Since the Fedora 20 release called Heisenbug is now some weeks old and the first updates are available I decided to update my Thinkpad. As described in older posts I prefer to reinstall the system partition and only keep my /home partition which contains all my stuff.
This time I …
Posted on Sun 25 August 2013 in ArchLinux • Tagged with Arch Linux, raspberry pi, SSH, x11
Useful configurations, tools and more for the Raspberry PiFinally found some time to write down some of my first experiences with my Raspberry Pi. I own some of this devices to play with them and use them for home server and run them with Linux to make things easier …
Some weeks ago I finally reinstalled my Lenovo T-500 with Fedora 19 since Fedora 17 is end of life now. For Fedora 17 I built my own version of some packages like the i3wm tailing window manager. Fedora 18 and the new Fedora 19 include an actual i3wm with cairo …
Posted on Tue 18 June 2013 in IoT • Tagged with broker, CentOS, cluster, hivemq, m2m, MQTT, server
Posted on Wed 13 March 2013 in Fedora • Tagged with i3, i3wm, rpm, window manager, Fedora, Linux
The new version 4.5 of i3 and i3status 2.7 is available for Fedora 17 over my repository. Short how to update i3wm on Fedora17 can be found here.
The detailed release notes are available here:http://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-4.5.txt
If your using Fedora 18 there …
Posted on Sat 23 February 2013 in Linux • Tagged with Fedora, yum
While I planed to install Skype on my 64bit Fedora machine I had to install a lot of i686 packages which I want to delete after I came to the conclusion Skype is not worth to be installed if they are not able to build a 64bit package.
To remove …