I regularly use a screen that my fedora install doesn’t recognize. I mean, it can’t find the right resolution. And that’s annoying. Luckily there is xrandr to solve such problems. But always using 4 commands is rather annoying, so I made a small script for it. #!/bin/bash CVT=$(cvt $1 $2) if [ -n "$3" ] then DISPLAYNR=$3 else DISPLAYNR=”VGA1″ fi [...]

Fosdem 2012 is coming near, in a big month probably the biggest open source event in Europe will start again! And as always, Fedora people will visit fosdem with great quantities. So I’m putting a lot of effort in making this the best Fosdem for Fedora people ever. I hear you thinking, how can this event become even better? Well, [...]

If you follow me on twitter, you probably already knew I was in Italy last weekend. Milan to be exact. I think this was my first FUDcon where I didn’t give a talk – hacksession myself. Luckily there were enough other sessions happening so I wouldn’t get bored. At the moment I’m in a plane flying to Zurich, where I [...]

this is one I always forget. So I’ll write it down for myself There are 2 ways to unmount a device when it’s busy. 1. the clean way: # fuser -m /media/attached /media/attached/:        1249c ps auxw | grep 1249 bert      1249  0.2  0.3 1052124 30760 ?       Sl   Sep18   2:19 python /usr/bin/revelation revelation is what is keeping you away from unmounting [...]

Some months ago the Fedora Board decided on a ‘Vision statement’, a goal towards the Fedora project should strive in the long term. The vision statement states the following: The Fedora Project creates a world where free culture is welcoming and widespread, collaboration is commonplace, and people control their content and devices. I personally believe that this is  a good [...]

Day 0 The FAD It’s starts to become a tradition, the FOSDEM FAD [1] on Friday at ‘A la mort subite’, the day before FOSDEM starts. I think we were with some 20 people, which was nice. During the fad also people from other projects, like GNOME joined us. This is something we totally promote. Fedora is more than Fedora [...]

Hi! Fosdem is around the corner, and I wanted to keep you up to date with some things. For the Fedora people, FOSDEM starts on Friday. On Friday, From 1pm till 6pm everyone is welcome in ‘A La Mort Subite’ for our yearly FAD. I think there are enough in EMEA that we can talk about. After the FAD we’ll [...]

hi, Tomorrow is the day of days   We will have another release event in Don Bosco Werken en Leren in Wilrijk, Antwerp. I can now announce the full schedule for tomorrow * Contribute or die (Bert Desmet) * RHEL 6 Feature Highlights (Frederic Hornain) * Fedora 14 Feature Highlights  (Bert Desmet) * Extending RHEL6 with RPMforge and ELRepo (Dag [...]

Yesterday, FAMSCO elected four new mentors for the Fedora Ambassador Program. I was elected, together with Pierros for the EMEA region. So if you want to become an ambassador, and you live in this region, or more specific, in the BeNeLux, don’t hesitate to contact me. You can of course still ask me other questions about the Fedora project too, [...]

Fedora 14 is released! what a happy day for all of us! Get is here To celebrate this, we’ll have a release event again in Belgium. Our schedule is ready (but I don’t promise it’s *fixed*, if you have something cool to talk about, please let me know so we can fit it in..) As this event is not only [...]