Fedora ARM Meeting 2012 December 4

OSTEP Team Meeting 2012-11-27

Updates

Beta install on PandaBoard

• Seems to run OK

• yum is painful on SD (as always)

• Testing stress-test packages: perl, apache, kernel

Trac

• Being spruced up (graphically)

FedoraArm (infrastructure)

• Mail not working (?) - Need to poll frequently

• Please accept bugs quickly

RPFR

• Andrew publicizing to the Raspi community

CDOT

• Accounts being created for steering committee

BCFG2 aka Shark Week

• Next week - updating schema (Jordan, Dmitry)

RPFR

• RPFR17

• • 512MB image is ready

• • Testing

• • • Tested on 512MB board: works

• • • Needs testing on 256MB board

• • • Try building hello-*

• • Will be released today

• RPFR18

• • Test compose is done

• • Testing

• • • Firstboot needs work

• • • • May need additional modules

• • • • • Is the "new" firstboot ready yet from upstream?

• • • • • How does the "new" firstboot know which questions were *not* asked in Anaconda?

• • • Boots into text mode by default

• • • Switching to graphics mode via startxfce works

• • • Switching to graphical mode via 'init 5' -- ???

• • • Booting into graphical mode - greeter

• • • • Authentication does not work

• • • • System users are displayed

• • • • Which greeter/DM is being used?

Infra

• Backups

• • Working!

• • Markham/Newnham arrangements -- ???

• 6-4

• • Firewall rules reset at 5 minute intervals

• • ^ This is a kludge!

• Largebuilders

• • Two trimslices

• • OSCAR is not ready yet - should be ready by end of day

Upcoming Events

• Sunday Dec 9

• • T1009 - Rasbperry Pi meetup - 1-5 pm

• • 20 monitors coming from ITS

• • Have 15 HDMI-DVI cables - just bought

• • Need ~5 more

• FUDcon

• • Three people going

• • • Chris

• • • Jon

• • •  ??? (Dmitry/NewGuy)

End of Semester

• Gift exchange and Food

• • Tuesday Dec 18

Team Makeup for Next Semester

• agreene - P/T

• fossjon - F/T

• DarthJava - P/T

• Frojoe - Next

• NewGuy - F/T - Coop

• • Sysadmin

• • Scripting / Programming

• • Flexibility