I’m continuing my evaluation of the Fedora Silverblue Linux distribution, which I started some time ago. Let’s upgrade the system! As mentioned in the official documentation: On Atomic Desktops, you can keep using your computer while applying OS updates as they are downloaded and installed in the background. Once an update has been installed, you […]
I’m going to test the Fedora 43 Linux distribution in its “immutable” “atomic” shape, Silverblue. Fedora Silverblue is Fedora’s atomic, GNOME-based desktop built around an image-based, mostly read-only system rather than a traditional mutable Linux install. As an atomic desktop: the base OS is image-based, updates are applied as a new deployment, and you switch […]
I like the tracker service in Gnome, which indexes files so that you can easily search for them from the Activity view or the file manager. However, I don’t like tracker-extract, which also indexes the file contents: I use Recoll for such a service, and tracker-extract uses too much CPU (it indexes new or modified […]
Installing Nerd Fonts is easy in Arch Linux: they are in the official repositories. That’s not true for Ubuntu and Fedora. Of course, installing them in these distributions is also not complicated. Still, it is a manual procedure: download the font archive, extract it in a specific directory, and regenerate the font cache. That sounds […]
When using Ansible and Molecule with Fedora 41, a few things must be adjusted so that Molecule can access the Docker image for Fedora 41. This is probably due to some changes in the Python package and the new Dnf 5 package; if you use a default Docker Fedora 41 image, you get errors of […]
I have already blogged about multibooting several different Linux distributions with GRUB. This post is a simplified and updated version of the previous post. Moreover, I made it easier to test such configurations manually: install several Linux distributions in a single KVM virtual machine. In this post, I’ll show how to configure GRUB (without os-prober, […]
I started to look at the Window Manager Sway. Hopefully, in the future, I’ll post more articles on that. In the meantime, I looked at the Fedora Sway spin (the current version is 40) and will briefly comment on that in this post. The live environment already provides a Sway window manager and leaves documentation […]
This post is outdated; please look at the new post. I like the tracker service in Gnome, which indexes files so that you can easily search for them from the Activity view or the file manager. However, I don’t like tracker-extract, which also indexes the file contents: I use Recoll for such a service, and […]
2025-03-14 See this more recent post. I have always liked Amarok, the (initially) default KDE media player. It’s very feature-rich, nothing compared to Elisa. Moreover, it has two crucial features that I haven’t found in any other players: it saves statistics (play count and stars) directly into the music file it synchronizes statistics with the […]
Gnome Boxes is meant to be an easy and quick-starting software for Qemu virtual machines. I have already blogged about Qemu with KVM Virtual Machine Manager. These tools are powerful but require time to get familiar with them and tweak them correctly (I tried to provide some hints in my previous posts about these tools). […]
I haven’t been using Fedora for a few years but wanted to try it again (Fedora 39). In the past, I had a few problems with Docker in Fedora (see Fixing Docker problems in Fedora). Things are slightly improved, while others haven’t changed. For sure, I gave up using the official Docker command in Fedora: […]
I haven’t used Fedora for a few years but wanted to try it again (Fedora 39). I was immediately hit by a problem, which is not due to Fedora itself, I seem to understand. I’ll use this example project (taken from my TDD book): https://github.com/LorenzoBettini/demo-attsw. It is a simple Java Swing application where UI tests […]
I have already started blogging about Ansible; in particular, I have shown how to develop and test an Ansible role with Molecule and Docker, also on Gitpod. I have also shown my Ansible role for GNOME. This blog post will describe my Ansible role for installing the KDE Plasma desktop environment with several programs and […]
I have already started blogging about Ansible; in particular, I have shown how to develop and test an Ansible role with Molecule and Docker, also on Gitpod. This blog post will describe my Ansible role for installing the GNOME desktop environment with several programs and configurations. As for the other roles I’ve blogged about, this […]
I have already started blogging about Ansible; in particular, I have shown how to develop and test an Ansible role with Molecule and Docker, also on Gitpod. This blog post will describe my Ansible role for installing “Oh My Zsh” and several command line programs. The role also installs the starship prompt or the p10k […]
In this post, I’ll describe a few problems with Docker in Fedora and how to fix them. In particular, I’ll try to provide an analysis of the problems and the sources of the solutions. I’ve experienced a few problems with Docker in Fedora (35 and 36). I first installed docker-ce by following the official documentation: […]
I have no problem installing VirtualBox and the related tools and extensions in Ubuntu and Arch. In Fedora, things are a little bit harder. First, I think it’s better NOT to download binaries distributed by VirtualBox: I’m using Fedora packages that are available from RPM Fusion Free. Thus, first of all, you have to enable […]
Now that Gnome 42 has been released and available in most Linux distributions, I started experiencing problems with the Dropbox icon in the system tray. First of all, I have no problem with Ubuntu 22.04, which comes with the extension “AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support” https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/. Moreover, I think the problem is not there because, while […]
Fedora 36 has just been released, and I couldn’t resist trying it right away. I had already started using Fedora 35 daily (though I have several Linux distributions installed), and I’ve been enjoying it so far. Before upgrading my Fedora 35 installations, I decided to install Fedora 36 on a virtual machine with VirtualBox. These […]
4th July, updated with BTRFS installations. There’s also a more recent and simpler version of this post. Besides Windows (which I rarely use) on my computers, I have a few Linux distributions. Grub 2 does a good job booting Windows and Linux, especially thanks to os-prober, in autodetecting other operating systems in other partitions of […]