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- Gotta Badge 'Em All: Vacation
This article is part of an ongoing series about how to earn specific Fedora badges. Learn more about the Vacation badge! “Vacation”: What is it? 🔗 \"Sip the lemonade away (You deserve it for remembering your responsibility)!\" The Vacation badge is …
- Gotta Badge 'Em All: Science
This article is part of an ongoing series about how to earn specific Fedora badges. Learn more about the Science badge! “Science”: What is it? 🔗 \"You completed a run of the kernel regression test suite\" The Science badge is categorized as a …
- Thirteen Year Legacy: Last.fm Downfall?
The Last.fm logo. Source: Xfdr (http://www.xfdrmag.net/ive-had-the-last-of-this-why-the-new-last-fm-layout-sucks/) Last.fm is a web service for users to track and share their music tastes with friends in an easy, simple way. A single play of a song …
- Gotta Badge 'Em All: Extra! Extra!
“Extra! Extra!”: What is it? 🔗 You contributed to Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org (https://fedoramagazine.org/)) The Extra! Extra! badge is categorized as a “Content Badge” and is defined in this Trac ticket. But what’s the real scoop behind the …
- Mumble Ready for Testing
Mumble is back in Fedora 🔗 Mumble, a free and open-source VoIP program The popular Voice Over IP (VoIP) program, Mumble, is being repackaged again for Fedora 22 and 23. Fedora contributor fedpop unretired the package from the Fedora Package Database …
- Netflix and Linux: The First 60 Seconds
Netflix and Linux may not agree on the desktop, but they do in the cloud. Source: blockless.com (https://blog.blockless.com/how-to-switch-to-linux-without-losing-your-netflix-access/) Netflix, Linux, and 60 seconds 🔗 While they have their …
- Gotta Badge 'Em All: Telegraphist
Telegraphist: What is it? 🔗 You mapped an upstream project to a Fedora package on release-monitoring.org (https://release-monitoring.org/) The Telegraphist badge is categorized as a “Quality [Assurance] Badge” and is defined in this Trac ticket. But …
- Gotta Badge 'Em All: Introduction to Fedora Badges
What is this?! 🔗 What is this? What is this?! Introducing a new series being published weekly on my blog - “Gotta Badge ‘Em All!” This series aims to introduce readers to the hundreds of Fedora badges that members of the Fedora community can earn. …
- Gotta Badge 'Em All: Parselmouth
Parselmouth: What is it? 🔗 \"You can speak Python and helped with porting stuff to Python 3.\" The Parselmouth badge is categorized as a “Miscellaneous Badge” and was defined in this Trac ticket. But what’s the real scoop behind the Parselmouth …
- Fedora CommOps - What I'm Working On
I’m trying to get into better habits about blogging on a semi-regular basis, as it’s a good way for me to recap about everything going on around me and to help remember how I’m spending my time. CommOps in Retrospect 🔗 Over the past few months, I …