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Fedora enablement Fedora currently needs a patched Samba package to enable the missing Domain Controller functionality. This guide is written against Samba 4.1.3 and Fedora 19, but later versions will work. Hopefully this change will make it into official packages…
Another batch of updates to the repositories: MakeMKV has finally been updated to version 1.8.7-2, which contains a small tweak as suggested in MakeMKV‘s forums to re-enable internal SSL support. This should solve all SCSI errors when decrypting BluRay discs…
In addition to the normal HandBrake, MakeMKV and libdvdcss repository, I’m preparing the next set of HandBrake packages, whether they be the SVN version or different builds of the released version 0.9.9. Considering that from version 0.9.9 HandBrake supports using…
After re-enabling the Steam (ubuntu) runtime in package version 1.0.0.43-9, I’ve made some more tests with the runtime disabled on my systems. The main driving factor for re-enabling the runtime was the introduction by Valve of the obsolete libudev.so.0 which…
In the past few days, I’ve updated most of the repositories: The Flash plugin repository does now contain separate control center packages (so an x86_64 system can have both i686 and x86_64 plugins but one control center) and has been…
MakeMKV has been updated to version 1.8.6; which requires FFMpeg version 2.x to compile succesfully. Unfortunately FFMpeg is available only in Fedora 20; so at the moment there’s no way to push MakeMKV 1.8.6 to the repositories. If you are…
Thanks to the awesome help of the ZFS On Linux team (Darik Horn, Brian Behlendorf and Richard Yao) now all the ZFS On Linux patches required for DKMS functionality are now integrated into the EPEL 6 and Fedora DKMS packages.…
I’ve updated the Nvidia driver repository to the latest 331.20 release. Since this release has been promoted by Nvidia to a long lived branch release; also the CentOS/RHEL 6 repository has been updated to this version. This means all currently…
Due to some issues with libraries in an upcoming Steam client update, I’m forced to re-enable the Steam runtime (Ubuntu libraries) in Fedora’s Steam package. This means that all dependencies are no longer needed but the size of the Steam…
The Steam package is now available in the RPMFusion repositories. It is currently in the updates-testing repository, but it can be installed anyway directly if you have the RPMFusion repositories enabled. http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/testing/19/i386/ The package is currently 32 bit only, but…