users October 2014

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by AV

Does it make any difference if mutt is compiled with '--with-gnutls' enabled or with '--with-openssl' enabled. Mutt (Fed20/21/Rawhide package) shows that '--with-gnutls' is used. I ask because I have no problem connecting to my ISP Ziggo with mutt when using Fedora. With the following in .muttrc: set ssl_starttls = yes set smtp_url = "smtp://volovics@ziggo.nl@smtp.ziggo.nl:587 the TLS connection is established successfully and I am asked to accept the certificate. Everything works OK from then on. But this does not work on a MacBook Pro with OsX Yosemite. I use the Homebrew mutt. This mutt is compiled with '--with-openssl', linked to 'openssl-1.0.1j'. Using the same .muttrc file I use in fedora the TLS connection 'aborts' and I get the error message: "SSL failed, I/O error. Could not negotiate TLS connection". The openssl-1.0.1j from Homebrew seems to be the same as in Fedora Rawhide though I have not checked all the patches. (Of course mutt in Fedora is compiled with gcc and the Homebrew mutt with LLVM Clang. Ziggo seems to be using TLSv1) AV

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A Linux for the totally maintenance free

by JD

Have a friend who wants to try getting away from windows, which, in spite of all the AV software the vendor had installed on her windows 7, it was plagued by viruses that rendered it unusable. So, since she is not technically savvy, I was thinking of finding a linux distro that is practically self maintaining, as she has zero tech savvy for doing things like updates, configurations, fililing abrt reports, .....etc. Any ideas what linux to use for such a person? Thanx.

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Driver for RTL8192su chipset

by JD

Hi I have a usb wifi dongle which uses the RTL8192su chipset. I found the following drivers in the current kernel: $ find /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi -name \*.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723com/rtl8723-common.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/rtl8723be.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/rtl8192cu.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192de/rtl8192de.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/rtl8192ce.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl_usb.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/rtl8188ee.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtlwifi.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/rtl8192se.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192c/rtl8192c-common.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl_pci.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/btcoexist/btcoexist.ko /usr/lib/modules/3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/rtl8723ae.ko None of these drivers supports the RTL8192su chipset. I found the URL: https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su but they want you to use their git wireless kernel source to build the driver: "...Currently, only kernels built from the latest wireless-testing.git are supported...." The driver from http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PFid=48&L... does not compile as it was made for a much older kernel. Wondering is anyone has a working driver for fc20 for this chipset. Thanx!

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Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

by Ed Greshko

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smplayer nagware

by Tim

I thought I'd escaped from this sort of crap when I shifted to Linux, all those years ago. I've just started up smplayer and got a pop-up saying "you can support SMPlayer by sending a donation or sharing it with your friends," with buttons to donate with paypal, and so something with facebook or twitter. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.16.6-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 15 13:48:38 UTC 2014 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.

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5tFTW: Fedora Beta, Council & Elections, Strategic Planning, Outreach Committee, and FUDCon Reports (2014-10-31)

by Matthew Miller

Reposted from <http://fedoramagazine.org/5tftw-2014-10-31/>. Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything that goes on. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each. Here are the five things for October 31st, 2014: Fedora Beta due Next Week ------------------------- I’ll keep this item short: Fedora 21 Beta is Go, and will be available Tuesday, November 4th. Next week, we’ll do an all-beta 5tFTW. This puts the final release target at December 9th. As always, these targets are more like guidelines than deadlines, but as we are verging on the holiday season we are going to make extra effort to avoid further adjustment. * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2014-October/001... * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/21/Schedule * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GMkuPiIZ2k Council Update and Elections ---------------------------- The Fedora Council — our new top-level leadership body — includes two of seats appointed by elected committees and two seats elected by the Fedora Contributor community at large. The appointed seats covering Fedora Engineering and Fedora Outreach (more on that below) are now filled, by Josh Boyer and Christoph Wickert respectively. (Congratulations and thank you to Josh and Christoph!) Now it’s time to fill the elected seats — see the schedule announcement for details. Quick summary: nomination period next week; “campaign” week after that, and finally a week for community voting after that. The Council will take over from the Fedora Project Board when this is complete. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2014-October/003236.html * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Objectives ----------------- If you haven’t seen it already, I would like everyone who cares about what Fedora does and where the project is going to take a look at my recent Fedora Magazine article about Fedora objectives — why, how, and eventually what. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, high-level strategy discussions can feel disconnected and pointless. This is a process by which we can actually connect them into what we’re doing in a meaningful way, and by doing so increase the impact of our actions. Take a look, and take part in upcoming discussions on the public board discuss list. * http://fedoramagazine.org/lets-talk-about-fedora-project-objectives/ * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2014-October/003235.html * https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss Fedora Outreach Steering Committee? ----------------------------------- Fedora has long had two high-level elected steering committees, FESCo, the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, and FAmSCo, the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee. The meritocratic representative positions on the Council are appointed by these committees. This is straightforward for the relatively wide-reaching FESCo, but the seat appointed by FAmSCo is actually intended to represent a much broader section of the project than ambassadors alone. This lead to a discussion about creating a new Outreach steering committee, tying together and coordinating efforts of Ambassadors, Marketing, Brand/Design, some aspects of the product Working Groups, Docs, various support channels — overall, all the parts of the project which are outward looking rather than focused on building the distro and infrastructure. Since FAmSCo has successfully delegated a lot of responsibility to regional ambassadors committees, and since the new Council will work on the high level community budget, this new body would make FAmSCo obsolete — so we’re not just piling on yet more committees, here! If you’re interested, join the new Fedora Outreach mailing list and let’s start building this! * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Ambassadors_Steering_Committee * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/outreach Reports from FUDCon Managua --------------------------- As promised last week, some updates from FUDCon Managua, our user-and-developer conference held this year in Nicaragua. Check out reports from: - Alejandro Prez (Lots of pictures and people!) - William Moreno Reyes (In Spanish *and* English!) - Rino Rondan (All in Spanish, although the photographs are multilingual) - Robert Mayr (Just “day 0″ so far; check back for more updates from robyduck!) - Kiara Navarro (In Spanish with a lot of details, and again a lot of photos — and also, there’s part 2 and part 3) - Abdel G. Martínez L. (Particularly, highlights positive impact of the event on project contribution — nice!) - Daniel Bruno (In English) Thanks to everyone who made these reports, and thanks to the FUDCon LATAM organizers, and congratulations to everyone on yet another successful Fedora Premier Event! * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Managua_2014 * http://msvslinux1.blogspot.com/2014/10/fudcon-managua-2014.html * http://otroblogdegnu-linux.blogspot.com/2014/10/fudcon-managua.html * http://www.itrestauracion.com.ar/?p=2002 * http://robyduck.fedoraonline.it/?p=12 * http://panamahitek.com/fedora-users-developers-conference-managua-nicarag... * http://panamahitek.com/fudcon-fedora-users-developers-conference-managua-... * http://panamahitek.com/fudcon-fedora-users-developers-conference-managua-... * http://www.abdelmartinez.com/2014/10/fudcon-managua-final-report.html * http://dbruno.org/fudcon-managua/ -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> Fedora Project Leader mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org <http://fedoraproject.org/>

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password troubles

by Beartooth

I'm having troubles getting some PCs to accept their passwords, either directly to sign in, or over ssh from another machine, or both. I've even had a situation (more than once) where A would not let me ssh in from B -- but I could ssh from B to C, and from C to A. No matter how carefully I type, watching each finger onto the next key ; even if I type out the password on another tab (so that I can inspect it), then cut & paste; I still get this : [btth@localhost ~]$ ssh 192.168.1.123 btth(a)192.168.1.123's password: Permission denied, please try again. btth(a)192.168.1.123's password: Permission denied, please try again. btth(a)192.168.1.123's password: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password). [btth@localhost ~]$ Also my old Dell PowerEdge SC1420 (long since reconfigured to be a PC with two hard drives, not a server with one and a backup) does not let me ssh in with userid, but only as root. I've also tried a big hammer, revising a set of known hosts. Sometimes that does the job; but sometimes it does only this : [btth@localhost ~]$ nano .ssh/known_hosts [btth@localhost ~]$ ssh 192.168.1.123 The authenticity of host '192.168.1.123 (192.168.1.123)' can't be established. ECDSA key fingerprint is 36:2e:66:7e:e8:e9:96:ae:37:bd:99:da:38:5b:37:fb. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.123' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts. btth(a)192.168.1.123's password: Permission denied, please try again. .... and so on, till it locks me out for trying too many times. Fwiw, at one point I went out and bought a nice brand spanking new keyboard. No change. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

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Gnome 3.12/3.14: how to define default keyboard layout

by Pavel Lisy

Hello I'm using Fedora 20 with Gnome 3.12 from Copr repo. I've found one bad regression in latest gnome versions. There is not possibility how to set default keyboard (I use "us" and "cs"). It seams that it use last state (even after reboot and new login). This is even worse when I set "Allow different sources for each window" I've just tested Fedora 21 Alpha with Gnome 3.14 and there is the same problem. In Cinnamon (Linux Mint 17) there is possible to choose ( ) New windows use the default layout ( ) New windows use the previous window's layout Is there any possibility how to define it? Pavel Lisý -- Pavel Lisý <pavel.lisy(a)tmapy.cz>

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iptables adding rules not in /etc/sysconfig/iptables

by JD

These are the rules being added that I do not care for: # iptables -L -n Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:53 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:53 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:67 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:67 Why is this taking place? I do not have any other superuser script that would do this.

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Fedora 20 on an old tablet PC

by Ranjan Maitra

Hi, I would like to install (and use) Fedora 20/21 on an old Gateway TB120 tablet PC (2Gb memory, 300GB disk, Core2 Duo processor, etc) that has been lying around at work. I was wondering if anything special is needed wrt installation and how to get the stylus, etc going. According to the shell of the laptop, it appears to have a Wacom device. Is there any place I can read up on this? I am interested in being able to use the tablet features and the stylus. Is the generic Fedora Gnome spin the best one to use or is something else more preferable? Sorry for all these questions: I have no experience with tablets but I thought that this might be worth trying and learning! Thanks again for any advice! Best wishes, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more!

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