VideoConference Package?
by John Mellor
In this extended period of Covid-19 isolation, is there a
videoconference package available?
Hosted systems like Zoom are not opensource, do not use a browser as a
client, feed connection data to Facebook, only allow 2 participants for
free, and not available for a local install.
I thought of Webex, but its Cisco. Maybe its just me :-)
I took a quick look at Jitsi, but users say it has a fatal extreme
processor utilization bug, the rpm packages are 3 years out-of-date, and
does not seem to be present in the normal rpm repos.
I also took a quick look at BigBlueButtion, which looks pretty good.
However, it only runs on an ancient version of Ubuntu, and uses a shell
installer for some unknown reason.
This seems like a major application type that appears to be completely
missing from the repos. Is anyone building one, and just hasn't
announced it yet?
2 months, 4 weeks
Is an encrypted Fedora Live CD possible?
by Earl Terwilliger
Hi,
I've managed to use the kickstart files to create a Fedora 31 KDE live CD
without any problems.
Actually I have a simple python script which conglomerates all the KS
files together to make it easier to deal with. Then I customize it and
have it copy some files into the /var/www/html directory.
I am now trying to see what is necessary to have it encrypted (with Luks)
so it prompts for the password at boot time.
part /boot --size=512 --fstype=ext4
part / --encrypted --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --size=8200 --fstype=ext4
Those commands don't seem to make it encrypted.. Is encryption ignored for
the livecd? Am I not doing something correctly, or is this not possible?
Thanks,
Earl
4 months, 1 week
System becomes unusable when copying a large file via USB into HDD
by Sreyan Chakravarty
I have just installed the latest version of Fedora Gnome on my HP laptop. I
had to import a 50 GB OVA file from my USB HDD to my hard drive via USB 3.0.
When the copying was taking place through VirtualBox, the system hung
almost completely, I was not able to even move my mouse.
Why does this happen ?
Reading this:
https://askubuntu.com/q/397249/628460
It seems to be the case for Debian based OSes, but then why is it happening
in Fedora ?
I just formatted from Windows 10, and while I hate a lot of things about
it, it never made the system unusable during heavy I/O operations. I had
multiple tabs in Chrome open without any lag whatsoever.
I say this, not to criticize Fedora but to point out this should be the
case in modern OSes. So why am I facing this issue?
Let me know what you think and if any further information is needed.
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty
4 months, 1 week
how to solve this error any solution available ??? on rhel 8 system
by VISHAL DHANURE
[root@localhost ~]# ./netbeans-8.2-linux.sh
Configuring the installer...
Searching for JVM on the system...
Extracting installation data...
Running the installer wizard...
Can`t initialize UI
Running in headless mode
Exception: java.awt.HeadlessException thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in thread "main"
4 months, 1 week
What do you open .mobi files with??
by Beartooth
Something on sourceforge has been recommended to me, but I try to
stick to things that dnf can install. Surely there must be some Fedora-
native ebook reader!
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
4 months, 1 week
RE: VideoConference Package?
by J.Witvliet＠mindef.nl
Jitsi’s VOIP/XMPP-client RPM are outdated, but their src is kept up-to-date ( jitsi-src-2.11.5633.zip 2020-03-26 21:49 58M )
Most of their time is now given to their video-meeting application ( jitsi-meet_1.0.4353-1_all.deb 2020-03-31 17:18 2.8K)
Alas, they are UB@#$%^&-addicts, but perhaps a decent guru can make ends-meet
From: George N. White III <gnwiii(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 5:48 PM
To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: VideoConference Package?
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 09:57, John Mellor <john.mellor(a)gmail.com<mailto:john.mellor@gmail.com>> wrote:
In this extended period of Covid-19 isolation, is there a
videoconference package available?
Ekiga<https://www.ekiga.org/> was previous Gnome Meetings:
Available Packages
Name : ekiga
Version : 4.0.1
Release : 46.fc31
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 8.5 M
Source : ekiga-4.0.1-46.fc31.src.rpm
Repository : fedora
Summary : A Gnome based SIP/H323 teleconferencing application
URL : https://www.ekiga.org/
License : GPLv2+
Description : Ekiga is a tool to communicate with video and audio over the
: internet. It uses the standard SIP and H323 protocols.
I've never used Ekiga as my video conferences have all had macOS or Windows
participants.
Hosted systems like Zoom are not opensource, do not use a browser as a
client, feed connection data to Facebook, only allow 2 participants for
free, and not available for a local install.
Zoom says they have fixed the Facebook data leak.<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b745/zoom-removes-code-that-sends-da...>
I thought of Webex, but its Cisco. Maybe its just me :-)
I took a quick look at Jitsi, but users say it has a fatal extreme
processor utilization bug, the rpm packages are 3 years out-of-date, and
does not seem to be present in the normal rpm repos.
I also took a quick look at BigBlueButtion, which looks pretty good.
However, it only runs on an ancient version of Ubuntu, and uses a shell
installer for some unknown reason.
This seems like a major application type that appears to be completely
missing from the repos. Is anyone building one, and just hasn't
announced it yet?
Skype now has a linux version.
--
George N. White III
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4 months, 1 week
Anyone successful build a homebrewed kernel on F32
by sixpack13
Hallo
I'm unable to build an home-brewed kernel 5.6-rc7 on F32.
I copied the config-5.6.0-0.rc7.git0.2.fc32.x86_64 to .config.
But the kernel is crashing with "stackprotector"-${something} just at
the beginning of the boot process.
I also see a lot of warning during build, but no errors.
I also tried Kernel 5.5.13 without success and same above crash.
thinking something was missing I also tried with:
sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools" and
sudo dnf groupinstall "C Development Tools and Libraries"
Idea's ?
--
sixpack13
4 months, 1 week
GRUB2 removing args "quiet" "rhgb" - grubby doesn't work
by Philip Rhoades
People,
In the olden days I used to just edit the grub conf file and delete
these args manually - now I am supposed to use grubby but doing this:
grubby --update-kernel=ALL --remove-args="quiet"
grubby --update-kernel=ALL --remove-args="rhgb"
does not make any difference to the boot information I see before the
graphical login . .
What am I missing?
Thanks,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
4 months, 1 week
New Laptop - Fedora compatibility
by S.Bob
Hi All;
I just ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad P73 with the following specs;
Just curious if anyone sees any compatibility red flags that I missed:
DIMM Memory 64GB(32+32) DDR4 2666 SoDIMM
Display 17.3FHD IPS AG 300N
Fingerprint Reader Fingerprint Reader
Graphics Quadro P620 4G G5 128b
HDD Config 2xSSD
HDD Total Capacity 4TB
Keyboard Backlit KB NP BK ENG
Absolute BIOS Selection BIOS Absolute Enabled
Processor Core i7-9750H 2.6G 6C MB
Storage Selection 2TB M.2 2280 NVMe TLC OPAL
Second Storage Selection 2TB M.2 2280 NVMe TLC OPAL
Security Chip Setting Enabled Discrete TPM2.0
System Expansion Slots Smart Card Reader
Wireless LAN Intel AX200 2x2AX+BT vPro WW
Thanks in advance
--
`When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*".' (By Linus Torvalds)
4 months, 1 week
sudo related
by David
To the few of you who recommended that I do a reinstall, to fix my sudo
problem, I just wanted you to know that the marvelous Fedora self-healed
itself.
I assume something in systemd update yesterday, or kernel rc7, fixed the
issue
that I was having.
Anyways, yesterday's update of systemd and kernel rc7 and the other stuff
that
tagged along for the ride, seem to work fine on my install.
I wish people would stop telling me to use Rawhide, and instead teach me
tiny
things that my brain might be able to understand. I am 100% certain
that I have
the lowest IQ of anybody using a developmental version of a Linux
distro. But the
perk to that, is that I might notice something that the programmers don't
see.
On the virus-front,
things are looking bleak over hear in near Houston, Texas, USA.
Not only do we have to worry about the
virus, but now we have looters, and thieves and the normal crime is now
elevated because
the government released hardened criminals onto the streets when there is
no employment.
Everybody here is polishing their guns. Booze or liquor are still
selling because people
are short-sighted and think this is only going to last two weeks. There
are still people
here who think it is a politically motivated event. The government is
sending out
retarded messages - Beaches are free, go to the beach, breath, Beaches are
closed, violators
will be sent to jail, so they can make room for the hardened criminals to
be set free.
Pinch me, I must be dreaming.
David Locklear
4 months, 1 week
