Fedora 16 is out!!

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Fedora 16 is ready to download!!

New features are:

  • GNOME 3.2
  • GRUB2
  • KDE 4.7
  • A lot of enhancements in Virtualization including some Cloud features.

You can start downloading it here.
Full feature list is here.

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CISL 2011: we were there

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Yesterday, September 9th, we were present in the CISL (Free Software International Conference). Our presentation was shorter than we had planned because the previous speaker didn’t finish on time but fortunately we had enough time to cover all the important points.

It was Rino’s first event as a Fedora speaker and he did a great job! He also enjoyed it a lot!! Welcome Rino!!

After our presentation we met Hernán Vivani, one of our Fedora’s  SA, and Claudio Pereyra Díaz, one of our translators . Hernán told us about the presentation he had given the day before. It was about how he switched a small national company from  proprietary to free software

We also had some time before Richard Stallman’s presentation to give LiveCDs and answer questions to the participants.

You can download the presentation here.

Some pics:

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Review: Netflix in Argentina

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Today is the first day of  Netflix in Argentina, the subscription is easy, you have to give them your credit card information (ouch!) and you will get a free subscription for one month. At the second month they will charge it directly to your credit card without asking.

As a first look, some things are missing, like Linux support (-5 points in my personal scale). And subtitles, you only can watch a movie in spanish, portuguese or english but with no subtitles (-2). But a good point is that there is a lot of movies or series to watch. (+2).

That is what I could look so far… Maybe watching a movie I could find more things to complain. :P

Edit: While using full screen on Firefox, movie freezes

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CISL 2011 I will be there

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Conferencia Internacional de Software Libre means Free Software International Conference.

On September 9th I will be giving a talk about Fedora 15 in our National Library. I will also talk a bit about the spins and what is coming in Fedora 16.

Another thing I will be talking about is the community and the different roles that our project has and how everyone can join us!

If you have any hint please feel free to leave a comment and/or wish me luck!

To register go here: CISL.

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phew.. thanks resize2fs for being cool

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Yesterday while shrinking a filesystem my computer got stock due a hardware failure:


[root@mirror /]# resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/vg_mirror-LogVol03 410G
resize2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
Resizing the filesystem on /dev/mapper/vg_mirror-LogVol03 to 107479040 (4k) blocks.
Begin pass 2 (max = 15391251)
Relocating blocks XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX------------------

Booted from a DVD in the rescue environment, mounted the filesystem and everything was OK. The size was still the original. I performed an e2fsck and then tried again. Apparently, the “Relocating blocks” part doesn’t cause any corruption if interrupted :D

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