install docs note for getfedora
by Matthew Miller
I am on the phone walking my dad through installing Fedora Workstation. He
knows he needs to create a USB stick, and so the first thing he did was
install Fedora Media Writer _to the USB stick_. Maybe we could explain that
more clearly. :)
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
2 years, 8 months
Syngrafias - AsciiDocs Collaboration Tool for Fedora Documentation
Maintainers, Available for testing
by Nasir Hussain
Hi,
We'd like to announce the public testing of Syngrafias, an Asciidoctor
collaboration tool - a service for Fedora documentation maintainers aiming
to
provide an environment where they can collaborate by sharing their workspace
among multiple contributors with active synchronization of edits at every
end
and live preview of the Asciidoctor files.
The preview version for public testing is now available here:
http://35.231.107.163/
Please note that as it has been deployed on a low-tier Google Cloud
instance,
the first load might take a while.
Syngrafias leverages WebSockets backend to significantly improve upon the
collaboration experience among multiple documentation writers and ensures an
ultralight implementation of the workspace server. (~2MB above Python
runtime)
It also includes the following features -
- Live Asciidoc editing and preview
- Workspace identity can be shared among multiple people to collaborate in
real time
- Documents can be exported locally and imported in different workspaces
- Unintrusive and focussed editing with cells inside a document
We would love to hear your feedback. Please keep in mind that this is a
testing
deployment and is currently running on an underpowered cloud instance. We
are
proposing it as a candidate GSoC project for it to be deployed, maintained
and
integrated in the Fedora Infrastructure this summer. Also the deployment
goes
offline on 8th January so be sure to check it out soon.
Feel free to provide ideas or bug reports at
https://github.com/t0xic0der/syngrafias or simply send an email reply to
this
thread with all kinds of feedback and suggestions.
---
Nasir Hussain
2 years, 8 months
dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories, wiki, pkg README, pkg
repo mirrors
by Wes Turner
Installing the `fedora-workstation-repositories` package adds the `.repo`
files (`baseurl`, `gpgkey`,) for Chrome, PyCharm, RPMFusion (NVIDIA
drivers, [...]), and Steam to `/etc/yum.repos.d/` so that dnf will install
and update from those third-party repositories (which may or may not have
their own package mirroring system).
The wiki doesn't yet link to fedora-workstation-repositories in a couple
places:
## wiki:Third_party_repositories
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Third_party_repositories links to
-
https://askbot.fedoraproject.org/en/question/39797/sticky-what-third-part...
- but there's nothing about fedora-workstation-repositories (or [*] how
to list what's in there)
- [ ] Link to the docs: [fedora-workstation-repositories]
## Article re: fedora-workstation-repositories
- url: https://fedoramagazine.org/third-party-repositories-fedora/
- datePublished: 2018-04-27
- `dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories`
- Packages:
> - Google Chrome — a web browser (Fedora 27 & Fedora 28)
> - PyCharm — a Python IDE (Fedora 27 & Fedora 28)
> - NVIDIA graphics drivers (Fedora 28 only)
> - Steam
## fedora-workstation-repositories
- Source: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-workstation-repositories
- [ ] README: Link to the docs
- Docs:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Third_Party_Software_Repositor...
:
- Packages:
- PyCharm, Chrome, NVIDIA, Steam
- [*] List of files included:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-workstation-repositories/tree/m...
## Mirroring
- Hopefully each .repo baseurl= in yum.repos.d points to a local and/or
scalable package mirror with a GPG key (and possibly an SSL cert signed
with a CA in the ca-certificates trust root).
fedora-workstation-repositories repo mirrors:
- Chrome:
- PyCharm:
- NVIDIA:
- Steam:
Third-party Fedora repo mirrors:
- https://pkg.cloudflare.com/ only supports Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL & CentOS &?
- https://cloudflaremirrors.com/ only lists Arch and Debian
- https://mirror.facebook.net/fedora/
- https://mirror.facebook.net/fedora/linux/releases/33/
Fedora repo mirrors:
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring
- https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
2 years, 9 months
Mentored Project Proposal - Your views are VITAL
by Akashdeep Dhar
Hi folks,
Akashdeep/t0xic0der here. There's this project that I have been building for some time now and I believe it can be a helpful one when it comes to streamlining the way we write documentations while being synchronous (just like Etherpad or Google Docs) so the changes are replicated to all the users in a shared workspace in real time. The project would not only help to ease the way in which documentation are created but will also relieve you from the constant cycles of build-review just to see how your changes look with the help of live preview options. Synchronized changes would also help to review documentation changes fast and easy without even including the complexities of version control from the get go.
But in order to be able to use this project, it must become something that the community approves of - and for that, your views are VITAL. The project is in active development up at "https://github.com/t0xic0der/syngrafias" and many changes are rapidly being introduced to the "fomantic-and-asciidocs" branch of the repository. Do take a look at the discussion going on at "https://pagure.io/mentored-projects/issue/85" and watch the interactive demonstration of the project in the couple of videos posted at "https://pagure.io/mentored-projects/issue/85#comment-704009". Should you find the demonstrations interesting, do try out this project locally and join us at the project discussions at "https://github.com/t0xic0der/syngrafias/discussions".
I would love to know what you think about the project. Your approval to this proposal can make this project a mentored one for GSoC and a potential ease-of-use for the documentation team. :D
Thanks and regards,
Akashdeep Dhar
FAS/Matrix/IRC:t0xic0der
2 years, 9 months
more newbie-friendly dual-boot instructions?
by Matthew Miller
I came across this question on Ask Fedora:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/problems-making-dual-boot-fedora-w10/10766
where the person is having trouble getting Fedora Workstation set up for a
dual-boot-with-windows-10 environment.
There's a paradox or irony here: this is one of the most complicated things
we might ask completely new users to do, yet also, new users just dipping
their toes are probably most likely to want the comfort of being able to
boot back to their old OS.
Do we have better hand-holding instructions for doing this somewhere that I
could point this user to and which we could make more prominent?
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
2 years, 9 months
