There are 12 talks from Fedora community members happening at @fosdem this weekend!

Learn more: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSDEM_2024#Speakers

#FOSDEM #Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

The Fedora Pride team is hosting a @Minetest gaming event tomorrow, Jan 27 at 7pm UTC (2pm EST)!

Minetest is an open source game inspired by Minecraft. If you've never given it a shot and are looking for that 'first time playing Minecraft' experience again, come join us!

Learn more: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/lets-play-minetest/101980

#Fedora #Minetest #Minecraft #OpenSource

Let's Play: Minetest!

The Fedora Pride SIG is hosting a gathering of Fedora Community members to play Minetest! We’re starting to hold more community events in 2024 to bring different parts of Fedora together.

^{Fedora Discussion}

Hey, is the feature "combine sinks" still there? I could not get it to work on Fedora, but having dual Bluetooth output would be great.

#pipewire #fedora #bluetooth

Fedora Magazine got an interview up of Wim Taymans about the PipeWire 1.0 release and plans going forward.
https://fedoramagazine.org/pipewire-1-0-an-interview-with-pipewire-creator-wim-taymans/

#linux #pipewire #fedora #audio

PipeWire 1.0 - An interview with PipeWire creator Wim Taymans - Fedora Magazine

With PIpeWire hitting its 1.0 release we speak with project lead Wim Taymans about what has been achieved and where we go from here.

^{Christian Fredrik Schaller (Fedora Project)}

Today I'll probably be posting a bit more from the #OpenAlt conference. If you're not interested in it, use that great feature of Mastodon and mute me for the weekend.
I'll be giving two talks at OpenAlt:
Fedora Asahi Remix: Linux on Apple Silicon
Fediverse: Mastodon and Others

I'll be happy to meet you at the #Fedora booth or at my talks. If you cannot come, you can watch the talks online (they're in Czech though): https://www.openalt.cz/2023/program/

It looks like Fedora 39 torrents are live a bit early. 👀 It seems like a good choice for my father-in-law's recently-liberated EOL Chromebook!

After downloading, I've already seeded to a 1:1 ratio; if you have some spare bandwidth, you can join in, too!

https://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

Thanks! (Can I claim a third pack by reporting a bug my patch introduced? :D)

I think Month of LibreOffice & the sticker packs are a great way to get more people involved long-term - after all the first patch/translation/bug report is often the most cumbersome one due to all the setup overhead.

I always try to lower the barriers I bump into along the way, eg. submitted this patch to #fedora to include all build debs ootb:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libreoffice/pull-request/12

Official #flatpak build env when?

Content warning: Problem #thunderbird Click to open/close

@thunderbird #thunderbird #linux

My TB data spans decades, for emails, tasks & events [oh, & also contacts]. I've lost count of however many TB iterations / versions it's lived thru. It began life yonks ago in Win7, & lives now, for many years, in Linux.

For at least a couple of years, my Calendar has had this damn annoying problem. For many Events, but not all, it is just impossible to directly duplicate them. Both Ctrl-C Ctrl-V, & RMB-Copy RMB-Paste, simply do NOTHING [for it seems like the majority (but not entirety) of my Events].

Research lead me to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2015334 [my distro is #Arch not #Fedora, but IMO that's irrelevant]. I was galled to see that bug report was closed without action or solution; also that it was raised only with Redhat not actually Thunderbird.

In exasperation, recently i conceived this inefficient albeit effective workaround: for the target Event, RMB-ConvertTo-Task, then edit said new task to desired date for the intended duplicate, then convert said task to a new Event... then correct all the text formatting that was buggered by this silly indirect process.

I've wondered if possibly the database has become corrupted somehow due to surviving all the historical TB version changes, to cause this duplication problem. So last night i thought i'd Export the Tasks & Events ICS file, then Import it into a clean TB profile elsewhere [in some vague hope that this process might magically "fix" any putative data corruption; hahahaha yeah right]. The Export nominally succeeded, being an 81 MB file. The Import failed every time, with the error msg per pic.

What is a frustrated user now supposed to do? 🤷‍♀️

2015334 – Thunderbird can no longer import .ics files on Linux

^{bugzilla.redhat.com}

🚂.🚃.HYPE.🚃.TRAIN.🚃

Fedora Linux 38 will release on Tuesday, April 18!

We've hit the early target dates for our beta and stable releases, so props to the Fedora community. And thanks to all who helped with testing!
#Fedora #Linux

More updates on Friday's Fedora Facts: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fridays-fedora-facts-2023-15/

Friday's Fedora Facts: 2023-15 – Fedora Community Blog

Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! Fedora Linux 38 will be released on Tuesday — the early target date! I have weekly office hours most Wednes…

^{Ben Cotton (Fedora Project)}