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This post will guide how to upgrade from F23 to F24 with gnome. First lets start with a machine with Fedora 23 fully updated. Once you are done, you will be ready to start off. **Make sure you are not going to use your production machine as this test might result in data loss. Enabling COPR repo : dnf copr enable rhughes/f23-gnome320 Update your system : $ sudo dnf update        REBOOT your system before proceeding furthur!                               Editing the fedora.json file You can find the file at ~/.cache/gnome-software/3.20/upgrades/fedora.json .                                    Find f24 and change the status...

Internet of Things, its a very new thing to us but when we think of it, we had access to internet for a long amount of time and we come across "things" in day to day life,they have been making our life easier each day. Let's say for example a light bulb, it consumes energy and produces light which helps us everyday.Technology and improvements has stripped down the consumption of resource to bare minimum and optimizing the output , Now we have a era where the mobile industry and teleco industry booming and the speed of internet being unimaginable as ever before. Hence, the idea of making things smarter by connecting them to internet and analyzing  petabytes of historical and real-time data and automating their operation.This will result in a smarter way of living. IoT affects almost all the major areas of the industry viz Agriculture, Healthcare,Home Automation and many more. This post is POC of how easy it is to smartly control light on an Arduino without et...

OpenQA and getting started with it! Life is too , hence comes the need to automate test cases. Installation Steps [You must be in the root] 1.dnf copr enable adamwill/openQA  #Needs to be enabled 2.dnf install openqa openqa-httpd  openqa-worker 3.create filesystem layout cd /var/lib/openqa mkdir factory/hdd cd /etc/httpd/conf.d cp openqa.conf.template openqa.conf cp openqa-ssl.conf.template openqa-ssl.conf 4. setup apache gensslcert cd /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/ a2enmod headers a2enmod proxy a2enmod proxy_http a2enmod proxy_wstunnel a2enmod ssl a2enflag SSL 5.Configure OpenQA WebUI by editing `/etc/openqa/openqa.ini`: cp openqa-ssl.conf.template openqa-ssl.conf cp openqa.conf.template openqa.conf [global] branding=plain download_domains = fedoraproject.org opensuse.org [auth] method = Fake edit openqa-ssl.conf 6.Start the Services (consider also running `enable` if you want persistence: vim openqa-ssl.conf systemc...

This is a proud moment as we have seen a good amount of people participating in the event . Testers : 22 , Test : 40 Bugs Filed : 16 , New :16  , Dup : 0 , Fixed : 0 Participants Ayan Karthik Subrahmanya achembar arehtykitna frantisekz kparal lbrabec pschindl priynag renault satellit sayak sumantro swarnava cpanceac deaddrift lsatenstein roger.k.wells cmurf jsedlak juliuxpigface qqqqqqq Bugs and Github issues Reported moving liveusb-creator to a different display runs out of memory and kills desktop - 1328452 Luc doesn't reuse already downloaded image and stuck - 1328369 AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'device' - 1328337 liveusb-creator: pycurl.error: cannot invoke setopt() - perform() is currently running - 1328340 crash when choosing ISO on samba server- 1328560   Windows 10 install usb stick not recognized- 1328794 liveusb-creator on Windows 10 opens diskpart.exe but does nothing- 1328484 partitions...

The new Fedora Live USB Creator that is being finished has an overhauled, more user friendly interface. Because USB sticks are the most common way to install Fedora, it should be the primary download option. It cover the whole installation media creation, it lets the user pick the right flavor of Fedora, downloads its image, and copies it to a USB drive. It will provide an easy-to-use tool for all major platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X) which will be offered to users as the primary download option. That should generally lower the barrier for potential users to try and install Fedora. To make the above endeavor successful ,  Fedora QA team is organizing an Fedora Media Writer Test Day. What will we be testing ? 1.Installing Fedora Media Writer 2.Writing Fedora images to the USB flash drive 3.Booting up and verifying the USB How to participate? This is an open to all event, everyone can participate by going to the test page . Feel free to ask a  specific...

This article will talk about the rewrite of the live-usb creator for Windows which is Fedora Media Writer . Requites for the process 1.Admin Privileges of the system 2. HDD space of about 5GB 3.Flash Drive of 8BG 4.Good internet access Steps to follow 1. Download the .zip file from here [Thanks To Martin!] 2. Extract and zip and run liveusb-creator.exe with admin privilege ** Before you race off  and run the rest of  steps. A point to note that you will require a good amount of space in the hard disk partition as the Fedora Media Writer will be downloading the image in this folder before writing it to your USB. ** Make sure the USB flash drive is blank as this process will be wiping all the data before writing Fedora in it.                                       Fedora Media Wri...

This post will talk about how you can test Fedora Media Writer AKA LUC on Windows. First for all you can download the .exe file from [ https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ ]  After installation, here is how you can create Live USB for Fedora in a jiffy.                                                                   Format Your Flash Drive to FAT 32. Execute the installed program as an "Admin" There are two ways of picking the source of the image, First is by taking up .ISO file by browsing or by waiting for the image to get populated from where you can directly get it to your USB.You need to select or hit the refresh button t...