fucking the white bunny rabbit

It’s about a month that f-spot is in version 0.4.4 on fedora 10. This should not a problem, but f-spot 0.4.4 has know bugs and is not usable.

I opened a ticket asking to update it about 20 days ago, today I submitted my quick and dirty review request

If you want to use it, here my self-made RPMs (only for x86_64, if you need 32 bit version you can rebuild it):
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Enjoy!!!

Update 29/12/2008@22:09 As noticed in comments, You can try to install f-spot 0.5 also from rawhide that, if don’t try to install the ‘-f11 world’ should be better than my rpms.

Update 06/01/2008@10:38 F-spot landing on fedora testing repository, to install it, just use

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install f-spot

I know. A lot of people don’t like chain letter, this is time is different: I want to try to use it in useful way.

I wish to know a bit more all people who I see every day in IRC and sometimes during meetings. More and more time I asked myself questions like “which distribution $person used before now?”, “what is he story?”. I love to know your Linux stories. So here we are

This post was made for Fedora people but I generalized it

!) Which was your Linux distribution story?

My first distribution was Mandriva 7.2 started about in 2000/2001, then I switched to Redhat 7 (If I don’t remember bad). Both of those didn’t work fine, so I found my first-really-cool distribution in Slackware 7. I used Slackware for three releases (7, 8, 9), during this time, I returned to Windows two or three times.  The needed of a package manager switch me to Debian 3. I used Debian for 1 year and half then, when I got a new Desktop I tried Ubuntu, but it was a really epic fail. Finally I switched to Fedora 5 and I felt good. Then I use Fedora.

2) What is your preferred $your_distribution version? (by default $your_distribution is Fedora )

Fedora 8 Werewolf

3) Write a short story (more like and anecdote) about your past distribution.

I feelt the sensation doing a ‘rm -rf /’ (fortunately my /home directory was on another partition and that saved it).

I send this chain letter to: Paul Frields, Max Spevak, Francesco Crippa, Francesco Ugolini, Gianluca Varisco, Gianluca Sforna, Marco Palazzotti, Joerg Simon, Michael DeHaan, Marco Mornati, Luca Botti, Adrian Likins, Alejandro Acosta, Fabian Affolter, Lorenzo Villani, Davide Panelli, Jeroen van Meeuwen, Daniele Segato

Finally, mugshot.org is back AND works fine!!

I’m so happy about it. It’s a really cool application!

Big sorry for late…but, you know, procrastination may be dangerous…

By the way, the release party goes well. To be honest, I’m not really satisfied about it because there wasn’t so much people (only ~25) although the place was simple to reach and the meal was good and free.

We lack a bit with announcement coordination, which was posted only few days before event, as a owner of this event, I’m not happy with my work, I don’t know…I think I made a lot of mistakes to coordinate people and calculate deadlines.

During the event Gianluca Varisco made an informal presentation about Fedora 10; I did a presentation, but without slides: I presented 2 new fedora people: Alexjan Carraturo and Stefano Cavallari. Alexjan Carraturo is new to Fedora but very motivated, he joined to Fedora Ambassador group in December; Stefano Cavallari is, right now, a contributor (afaik in Fedora Bug Triaging, but I’m not sure) but he planned to became an Ambassador in 2009.

Fedora got two new quality people.

Il 26 Novembre e’ stata rilasciata la distribuzione Linux Fedora 10. I membri italiani del Fedora Project sono lieti di invitarvi a partecipare al “Fedora 10 Release Party” che si terrà a:

• Roma: il giorno 9 Dicembre, ore 20:30 presso la Ludoteca “La Civetta sul comò”, Via Cereate 8 (zona S.Giovanni) vicino alla fermata S.Giovanni (Metro A)
• Milano: il giorno 11 Dicembre, ore 18:30 presso il “Tijuana Café”, Via Massarani 5 (angolo di corso Lodi) tra fermata Brenta e Lodi TIBB (Metro M3)

Il “Fedora 10 Release Party” è un evento internazionale, un party informale e conviviale, un ottimo modo per conoscersi e passare la serata in allegria. Come tutti gli eventi Fedora, è dedicato a utenti e sviluppatori di tutte le distribuzioni.

Al “Fedora Release Party” si potrà:

• Mangiare e bere per tutta la serata
• Avere la possibilità di installare automaticamente Fedora Live sulla propria penna usb (da almeno 1 GB) scegliendo tra GNOME, KDE o XFCE come ambiente grafico.
• Parlare con alcuni Fedora Ambassador a disposizione per eventuali chiarimenti o domande in merito al progetto Fedora.
• Chiedere aiuto in fase di installazione e/o configurazione della distribuzione.

La partecipazione è libera. Sarà possibile, fino ad esaurimento scorte, avere diritto ad una consumazione gratuita, previa iscrizione qui.

Vi aspettiamo numerosi

Gli ambassador italiani