I’ve just been to two traditional Czech open source conferences – LinuxDays and OpenAlt – and I’ve noticed one interesting shift: the communication on social media during the conferences has disappeared. After 2010, we suddenly all had a device in our pocket that we could easily … | Continue reading
Last weekend I went to Prague to represent Fedora at LinuxDays 2024. It’s the biggest Linux event in the country with more than a thousand attendees and the Fedora booth is busy there every year. Like last year the Fedora booth was colocated with the Red Hat booth. It made sense … | Continue reading
After many months, I finally found the time to finish the GNOME desktop/application settings migration in the Linux Desktop Migration Tool and made another release. It basically involves exporting the dconf keys on the source machine and importing writable keys on the destination … | Continue reading
The feature my team worked on – Nvidia Driver Installation with Secure Boot Support – was approved by FESCo earlier this week and its upstream implementation was also approved several days ago, so it’s on its way to Fedora 41 and I decided to write a blog post with more context a … | Continue reading
Last Friday I organized a Fedora 40 release party in Prague. A month ago I got a message from Karel Ziegler of Etnetera Core if we could do a Fedora release party in Prague again. Etnetera Core is a mid-sized company that does custom software development and uses Red Hat technolo … | Continue reading
I know that some blog posts on this topic have already been published, but nevertheless I have decided to share my real-life experience of bisecting regressions in Fedora Silverblue. My work laptop, Dell XPS 13 Plus, has an Intel IPU6 webcam. It still lacks upstream drivers, so … | Continue reading
Do you have a blog running on WordPress and are you in the Fediverse? You might want to try the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress to increase reader engagement. I’ve had a blog for almost two decades and in the last ten years I’ve noticed that the comment activity on my blog has … | Continue reading
The Vivaldi browser is now available on Flathub. It’s been available for 2 weeks now actually, but I didn’t find time to blog about it until today. When Jon. S. von Tetzchner, the CEO of Vivaldi, asked users for feedback on Mastodon, I replied that it’d be great to have Vivaldi … | Continue reading
I made another release of Linux Desktop Migration Tool. This release includes migration of various secrets and certificates. It can now migrate PKI certificates and the shared NSS database. It also exports, copies over, and imports existing GPG keys, ssh certificates and setting … | Continue reading
I have been using Nextcloud as a cloud for personal use for over 7 years. I’ve written a few blog articles about it in Czech, but the last one is from 2018 and a lot has happened in the Nextcloud world since then, so I decided to revisit the topic. When I started Nextcloud back … | Continue reading
After 12 years on WordPress.com I decided to move my blog to my own server. Ads on free tier blogs were getting more and more ridiculous and I have a server with a lot of spare power, so paying for a premium plan seemed like a waste of money. So the blog has a new home, on my se … | Continue reading