Tag Archives: fedora

Fix for Intel i915 GPU Freeze on Recent Linux Kernels

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Will Foster

Recently Intel started including their graphics drivers into the mainline Linux kernel.  This is great except when it stops working.  Having suffered intermittent, sporadic GPU freezes on my Lenovo x270 (Kabylake) work laptop since Kernel 4.12+ I came across a … Continue reading →

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Automate RPM Builds from Git Sources using COPR

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Will Foster

The Fedora project COPR service builds/hosts free RPM package repositories and provides useful automation hooks for your Devopsing.  You can combine COPR and any standard Git source (Github, Gitlab, etc) with webhooks for automated package builds when your source repository … Continue reading →

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Installing Fedora on the Raspberry Pi 3

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Will Foster

Recently I setup CentOS on the Raspberry pi 2.  Now we’re going to be installing a modern Fedora 23 desktop on the Raspberry Pi 3.  I’ve used the Pi 2 instructions from chisight’s blog post so original credit goes to … Continue reading →

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Quickly Make Fedora Linux Fonts Glorious

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Will Foster

As a previous user of the now defunct Infinality repo I was looking for something similar in Fedora 26+ and came across this COPR repository.  This used to follow the infinality fonts guide but I’ve updated it for recent versions … Continue reading →

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