Steam under review in RPMFusion

The Steam package has been under review in RPMFusion for the latest 20 days: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2979 It has now got a reviewer; so with a bit of hope the package could be finally merged into RPMFusion! At the moment, the package…

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Steam and Oculus Rift

I’ve just updated the Steam package to the latest release (1.0.0.43) and in addition to the Steam controller support there are now udev rules for the Oculus Rift! This is the changelog content: $ cat /usr/share/doc/steam-1.0.0.43/changelog | head -5 steam…

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Some updates to repositories

I’ve pushed some updates for the repositories. Cdrtools now ship with shared libraries enabled and a fix for Kernel Capabilities on RHEL/CentOS 6 and Fedora distributions. There was a regression introduced in the packaging of version 3.01a17 which was disabling…

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FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT X.org repository (amd64)

I’ve just pushed a repository to the site that contains the very latest X.org packages for FreeBSD 10.0. All packages have been built with poudriere. The repository contains the following ports: x11/xorg x11/xorg-minimal x11/nvidia-driver x11/nvidia-settings x11/nvidia-xconfig multimedia/vdpauinfo multimedia/libva ports-mgmt/poudriere-devel It…

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Complex setup with Nvidia Optimus / Nouveau Prime on Fedora 19

First of all I would like to say some thanks to the X.org community. Their work is awesome, and the fact I can make my setup work on entirely X.org components it’s something I never thought possible when XFree86 was…

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FreeBSD 10; new X.org, KMS, PKGNG, poudriere…

Lately I’ve been playing with FreeBSD and its new technologies; PKGNG & poudriere and the new KMS/X.org stack that has been pushed to HEAD. This is just my short how to for updating a FreeBSD CURRENT installation (10.0 at the…

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HandBrake & Skype Fedora 20

HandBrake, Skype and purple-skype packages are now available also for Fedora 20. Just go to the Skype or HandBrake repository page to install the repository definitions for Yum!

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Using OpenConnect with RSA Software Tokens in Fedora / RHEL / CentOS

OpenConnect is the Open Source alternative for the proprietary Cisco AnyConnect client. Our company is using the Cisco AnyConnect client along with PIN protected RSA Software Tokens for the authentication. Looks like a complicated solution if you don’t have your…

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Steam on Fedora 20

I’ve updated the Steam repository with Fedora 20 packages and removed Fedora 17 bits from the SPEC files since it has now gone EOL. Fedora 19 and up now have SDL 2 in the main repositories; though the Steam client…

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Enabling Cisco WebEx in Fedora 19/20

Enabling Cisco WebEx on a Fedora system is actually a lot easier than it looks by searching on Google. Pretty usual uh? Every time you look for something Linux related, a plethora of posts tell you that you need to…

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