Monday, October 5, 2015

F22-20151004 (Updated Lives -- 4.1.8-200) Available

Hello again fellow Fedorians,

Available today is your newest  installment of  Updated Lives (Desktop Spins).  This  installment comes with the  4.1.8-200 kernel and  assorted updates.

These updates are  available at the usual permalink:

For any issues,concerns, or  info on how to  make thy own spins (sysadmins, curiosity, a  future installfest / conference) feel free to  join  us in  #fedora on  freenode IRC server (irc.freenode.net/#fedora)  The  main architect  is Southern_Gentlem | kk4ewt I among   3  others  help keep things  seeded and  have  learn many things on the process from him.

His  wordpress blog  is:

Monday, September 14, 2015

Startup Update (Project skunkWorks)

For those  following  my startup venture:  Project SkunkWorks,



A Few updates that  may have been lost in the  swarm of  things I do:


Aug 25th:  The base case design   officially  granted  "Patent Pending" status  with USPTO.


Sept 1 and Beyond:  


  • Looking for  those  loving to  code drivers (BSD,MIT,(A/L)GPL2+)  
  • Looking for  First round  funding  equity / royalties  a  possibility,  return of  150% guaranteed, customized  model of  choice  for you and up to 2  family members or designated  friends/colleagues.
  • Looking  for  security minded and  security  novices willing to learn to help make this project a reality.  

F22-20150912 Updated Lives -- Ready

Hello again fellow Fedorians,

Available today is your newest  installment of  Updated Lives (Desktop Spins).  This  installment comes with the  4.1.6.-201 kernel and  assorted updates.

These updates are  available at the usual permalink:

For any issues,concerns, or  info on how to  make thy own spins (sysadmins, curiosity, a  future installfest / conference) feel free to  join  us in  #fedora on  freenode IRC server (irc.freenode.net/#fedora)  The  main architect  is Southern_Gentlem | kk4ewt I among   3  others  help keep things  seeded and  have  learn many things on the process from him.

His  wordpress blog  is:


Friday, August 28, 2015

Fosscon 2015 Event recap / follow up

Fosscon 2015   played  host to  several  projects, one of  which was  Fedora,  Mike Depaulo (mikedep333)  and  I (Corey84)  partook in the  event as  Fedora Ambassadors.

Fosscon 2015

Other  participants  included:


  • SunGard: A consulting firm  for  enterprise entities.
    • http://www.sungard.com  
      • Looking  for  JS and  barebone  Developers
        • send resume to nikita.desai@sungard.com

  • CoreDial: A cloud based  PBX | VoIP offered  as a UCaaS  (Unified Communication as a Service)


  • Matrix: A WebRTC / cloud based  VoIP / IM solution using   beagleboards and raspberry pis for  clients

Several  attendees  were  impressed  with  the XO and sugar  support.

Several were also  concerned at  both the  lack of  32  bit  install media on hand ,  and the  path to dropping  32  bit support that  signaled.







Thursday, August 27, 2015

Updated Lives (with 4.1.6-200 Kernel) Available

The  community project that  brings you the  updated  Live ISOs  is  proud to  announce the availability of  20150826  (with the 4.1.6-200 Kernel) :

20150826 Lives (Permalink)

These  Lives  include 32 & 64 ISO Downloads and  Torrent Downloads of:



  • Fedora 22 KDE 
  • Fedora 22 LXDE
  • Fedora 22 MATE
  • Fedora 22 XFCE
  • Fedora 22 SoaS (Sugar on a Stick -- per sugar community request )  Sugar Labs

Side Note  for  Ambassadors:  The  Multi-Boot is  still available  there as well for a short while (great for  Demo Days / conferences -- Next big one is Ohio LinuxFest )  If you  wish to  have a  newer  copy  or  a  specific one  feel free to  contact  Southern_Gentlemen or me  for   details on  creating one.   I  personally  will be  making a  solid effort to  make  updated multi-boots in  lock step with the Lives -- No guarantees  they are  available at  same time tho....

Sunday, August 23, 2015


Available today, The Official updated respins, will be ready for download from:


Live Respins (Permalink)

The Folks maintaining the live-respins are all volunteers and use a whitelisted tracker, we kindly ask that you not add additional tracker and instead publicize it on your social media networks and where others may be made aware of it.



All respins are hashed with a sha512sum:


F22-i686-DESK-20150819
F22-i686-KDE-20150819
F22-i686-LXDE-20150819
F22-i686-MATE-20150819
F22-i686-XFCE-20150819
F22-i686-SOAS-20150819
F22-x86_64-DESK-20150819
F22-x86_64-KDE-20150819
F22-x86_64-LXDE-20150819
F22-x86_64-MATE-20150819
F22-x86_64-XFCE-20150819
F22-x86_64-SOAS-20150819

For more info on SoaS, feel free to head to the project site: Fedora SoaS

So what comes in today’s release:
the 4.1.5-200 kernel
all updates as of mirror sync this morning (Aug 18th).
SoaS now part of the Monthly installment

Fosscon 2015 (Pre Conference)

Fosscon 2015:

Free And Open Source Conference 2015, is a 9-5 conference that is STRICTLY about foss projects and initiatives, regardless of language (spoken or coding), Operating System, or most any other common limitation.

Date: Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015

Where: Friends Center, Philadelphia, Pa

Cost: 2 options FREE, donation welcome : Donations include Fosscon Tshirt, Fosscon Hoodie for donations of $25 / $50 respectively.

Schedule:

So what can you expect to see at Fosscon:

Some notable Speakers:
Christopher Wink:
cofounder and Editorial Director of Technical.ly
Talk: How open Source is changing the world.
Paul Snyder:
SunGard, P.h.D.
Talk: Functional Testing For Hard-To-Test Software Using Docker and Wiremock
Chris Norton
Avid Plug (Philly Linux User Group) member
LVM And All its Capabilities in Linux

Full Speaker list: Speaker List