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Another keynote from the Open Source Summit... about start-ups... the rich and the poor.  Notice... cuss words are used and realities exposed.  Enjoy!

I haven't watched this yet, but I bet it is interesting.  Enjoy!

KVM has had the ability to do nested for a while. Here are some instructions for getting nested KVM working in Fedora. I decided to do nested, nested... and hey, it is slow but yeah, it actually works. Proof below.

kvm-nested-nested-20170716.webm (19:24, 44.7MB)

Andrea Limbago is interviewed by the CUBE at the Grace Hoper Celebration 2016 conference.  She covers a number of interesting topics and I thought it was worth sharing.  Enjoy!

On July 5th, 2016 Michael Biebl spoke at DebConf16 on systemd in Debian.  This was an update to the talk last year.  Enjoy!

As you may know, I've been remixing Fedora for several years for my own personal use... called MontanaLinux.  I've also been remixing CentOS and Scientific Linux and thought I'd write a little bit about it.

The main reason I created the EL7 remixes is because I have a few older HP Proliant servers at work that have the CCISS Raid Controller and Red Hat dropped support for those in RHEL 7.  Also, I originally included both GNOME and KDE as part of it but have since decided to make it leaner by switching to XFCE 4.12 that is available in EPEL... and of course it includes all of the available updates as of build time.

I make two flavors:

1. Minimal - Just the basic XFCE with no desktop applications.  This is pretty close to the CentOS minimal install except with X11 and bare bones XFCE.  It weights in under 550MB.
2. Full - XFCE with Firefox, LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape and a handful of useful tools like gParted, nwipe, rdiff-backup, etc.  This weights in under 900MB.

Here are two short screencasts in webm (vp9/opus) format.  The first shows the minimal install and the second one shows the full.  While I'm not trying to provide a primer of the Anaconda installer, I do rush through it both times and show you post install first boot.

MontanaLinux-CentOS-7-Minimal-20160617.webm (8 minutes, 7.1 MB)

MontanaLinux-CentOS-7-Full-20160617.webm (5 minutes, 4.4 MB)

If anyone is interested in downloading my remix or building it themselves just email me and I'll be happy to provide the needed details.  Luckily livecd-tools with livecd-creator makes it not only possible to make your own spin / remix... but fairly easy if you aren't scared of some command line.  Enjoy!

Rob Potter brought the following video to my attention when he posted a link on the BozemanLUG mailing list. I converted the original .mp4 to a .webm.   Enjoy.

Just got back from LFNW this morning.  Gary, Rob and I went.  This year they were able to capture screencasts from all of the presentations.  Here's one I enjoyed attending:

A few of us were talking about VDI and KVM in IRC and our buddy kaptk2 told me that nested KVM was working pretty well these days... since Fedora 19 he said.  I had not tried it yet so I thought I'd give it a try.  It worked so well that I thought I'd make a screencast showing it off. The original recording size was 1920x1080 (plus titlebar) and I scaled it down to 1280x734... so full-screen it for a better view beyond the embedded 824x473 video.  Oh, and yes SELinux is enabled and in enforcing mode everywhere.  Umm, and NO, this is NOT an April fools joke!

There is a tiny bit of work to do to get it going but not much.  Add a kernel boot parameter and configure the CPU details for the VM.  For more info, see this:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_enable_nested_virtualization_in_KVM

nested-kvm-on-fedora-23.webm (21 minutes, 21.5 MB)