Category: Software

  • Printer Device IDs wanted

    The new feature in Fedora 13 for installing printer drivers automatically makes it all the more important to have correct IEEE 1284 Device IDs for printers.  Unfortunately many drivers shipped in Fedora do not declare Device IDs for all the printers they support, and some of the ones we do have are wrong. You can…

  • Printing Test Day this Thursday

    This Thursday (March 25th) is when a Printing Test Day is being held for Fedora.  This is an opportunity to check that printing will work with your printer in Fedora 13, and to help find bugs to be fixed before release date. One of the new features in Fedora 13 is the automatic installation of…

  • system-config-printer 1.2.0

    I’ve just released the first version in a new stable branch of system-config-printer.  The changes are listed below.

  • Fedora Updates can be revised

    Fedora package developers very often submit a test update for a package, get some feedback on it, then submit another test update incorporating further fixes.  This resets the “karma” back to zero, as well as making search results for packages in the Fedora Update system very cluttered. Did you know that you can edit an…

  • Mapping encrypted volume groups to disk partitions

    I’m about to try installing a Fedora 12 test image onto the spare disk partition in this computer, but it’s taken me a while to work out which partition actually is spare. The reason: most of my filesystems are in logical volumes on LUKS-encrypted devices. So, for my own reference as much as anything else,…