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Packaging Update: pydf now in Fedora

July 22, 2011 – 10:52 am

Recently, my friend beandog introduced me to pydf. After playing with it for a couple of days, I decided I liked it enough that I packaged and included into Fedora. (If you are interested in other packages I maintain, you can check them out here.)

What is pydf?

$ yum info pydf

Name             : pydf
Arch               : noarch
Version          : 9
Release         : 3.fc15
Size                : 14 k
Repo              : updates
Summary       : Fully colorized df clone written in python
URL                : http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/pydf/
License          : Public Domain
Description   : pydf displays the amount of used and available space on your file systems,
: just like df, but in colors. The output format is completely customizable.

I was also able to send in a patch for the python 2.4 version to the upstream author. He was very happy to receive and apply the fix. The patch is also available in the source rpm.

A nice looking screenshot of the output from pydf is below:

Cheers,

herlo

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Fedora 15 (Lovelock) is here – get yours today!

May 24, 2011 – 8:41 am

Here’s the announcement from Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith.

Several new features are available, many which I am excited about.

  • GNOME 3 desktop environment – built from awesome!
  • Btrfs filesystem now optionally available
  • Better crash reporting
  • Better SELinux support
  • More apps in live media thanks to XZ compression
  • Better power management
  • LibreOffice replaces OpenOffice
  • Firefox 4
  • Systemd – the new and better replacement for SYSV init
  • And much, much more…

Download and share (via bittorrent) the latest release of joy and happiness. Fedora 15 is here!

Cheers,

Herlo

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LazyWeb: What is that . doing there?

March 27, 2009 – 9:34 pm

So tonight I was sitting there tonight getting ready to setup cobbler for another installation source, and I noticed something very odd.

# ls -l /root
total 88
-rw-------. 1 root root  1176 2008-11-23 17:22 anaconda-ks.cfg
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  4096 2008-12-14 18:37 bin

See the . ? Where you ask?  Look closer!

drwxr-xr-x. <– look, there it is!!  At first, I thought it was just one file, but then I noticed it other places, then I looked further, and it seems to be everywhere.

What is up with that? Where does this come from?  What is it for?  LazyWeb, can you help me?

Cheers,

Herlo

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