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The ways of the GNOME people

This is a serious post. Or is it? 😉 Hidden away in the farthest corner of the planet, its slopes covered in mist and darkness and its peaks lost in the clouds, stands the formidable Mount GNOME....

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GNOME Terminal 3.28.x lands in Fedora

The following screenshots don’t have the correct colours. Their colour channels got inverted because of this bug. Brave testers of pre-release Fedora builds might have noticed the absence of updates to...

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Libre Graphics Meeting 2018

I spent the last seven days attending Libre Graphics Meeting in sunny and beautiful Seville. This was my second LGM, the first being six years ago in Vienna, so it was refreshing to be back. I stayed...

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GNOME Terminal: separate menu items for opening tabs and windows

Astute users might have noticed that the GNOME Terminal binary distributed by Fedora has separate menu items for opening new tabs and windows, while the vanilla version available from GNOME doesn’t....

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GNOME Terminal: a little something for Fedora 29

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Fedora Toolbox — Hacking on Fedora Silverblue

Fedora Silverblue is a modern and graphical operating system targeted at laptops, tablets and desktop computers. It is the next-generation Fedora Workstation that promises painless upgrades, clear...

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Fedora Toolbox — Under the hood

A few months ago, we had a glimpse at Fedora Toolbox setting up a seamlessly integrated RPM based environment, complete with dnf, on Fedora Silverblue. But isn’t dnf considered a persona non grata on...

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GNOME Photos: an overview of zooming

I was recently asked about how zooming works in GNOME Photos, and given that I spent an inordinate amount of time getting the details right, I thought I should write it down. Feel free to read and...

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About -Wextra and -Wcast-function-type

About eight months ago, around the time when GCC 8.x started showing up on my computers, I started moving my code away from using -Wextra. This aligns nicely with the move to the Meson build system,...

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Fedora Toolbox is now just Toolbox

Fedora Toolbox has been renamed to just Toolbox. Even though the project is obviously driven by the needs of Fedora Silverblue and uses technologies like Buildah and Podman that are driven by members...

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Toolbox — A fall 2019 update

Things have been moving fast in Toolbox land, and it’s time to talk about what we have been doing lately. New home Toolbox is now part of the containers organization on GitHub. We felt that the...

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Toolbox — After a gap of 15 months

We just released version 0.0.99, and I realized that it’s been a while since I blogged about Toolbox. So it’s time to address that. Rewritten in Go About a year ago, Ondřej Míchal single-handedly...

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Toolbox is now Toolbx

Toolbox is being renamed to Container Toolbx or just Toolbx. I had always been uncomfortable by the generic nature of the term toolbox and people keep complaining that it’s terribly difficult to...

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Toolbx: Red Hat is hiring a software engineer

The Desktop Team at Red Hat wants to hire a software engineer to work full-time on Toolbx (formerly known as Toolbox) with me, and hopefully go on to maintain it in the near future. You will be...

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Toolbx is now on Matrix

Toolbx now has its own room on matrix.org. Point your Matrix clients to #toolbx:matrix.org and join the conversation. We are working on setting up an IRC bridge with Libera.Chat but that will take a...

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Toolbx — bypassing the immutability of OCI containers

This is a deep dive into some of the technical details of Toolbx. I find myself regularly explaining them to various people, so I thought that I should write them down. Feel free to read and comment,...

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Toolbx @ Community Central

At 15:00 UTC today, I will be talking about Toolbx on a new episode of Community Central. It will be broadcast live on BlueJeans Events (formerly Primetime) and the recording will be available on...

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Fedora meets RHEL: upgrading UBI to RHEL

Six years ago As part of our efforts to make Fedora Workstation more attractive for developers, particularly those building applications that would be deployed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we had made...

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Toolbx now offers built-in support for Arch Linux and Ubuntu

… and why did it take so long for that to happen? The year 2023 was a busy one in Toolbx land. We had two big releases, and one of the important things we did was to start offering built-in support...

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