Most of the money you see in and around Free / Open Source Software, Hardware and other projects is in the hands of large companies, groups and self styled organisations, with little or none reaching the actually contributors/maintainer/developers of your favourite projects who actually do the day to day work.
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I have begun adding git repositories on my GitHub instance with code samples in a variety of programming languages. These languages are C, C++, Java and others as time passes. These samples may help people in their learning of coding, but it also is fun for me to write basic programs in varying languages and keep my hand in.
Some like myself change many settings in whichever Operating System (OS) we are using. Under MacOS I change the naming for screenshots. On the commandline it can be accomplished with the command below.
defaults write com.apple.screencapture name "YourCustomName"
This weekend has become the one where I have setup my new Elegoo Neptune Pro 3 3D printer. We will be testing and getting used to the device and working towards building some useful projects.
One of the first projects is to print cases for my Arduino UNO R3 devices.
Watch this space for future projects that incorporate 3D printed elements.
It has been a while since my last post. I am still recovering from a serious illness and major operation. I will be posting more now I am better and truly on the mend.
Coming up will be some new projects using Single Board Computers (SBCs) and also some robotics work.
Fedora 41 went End Of Life (EOL) on December 10, 2025. I have removed my Virtual Machines (VMs) for Fedora 41 and will be doing no further maintenance or builds for this release.
Have not been the best health wise recently, we are enjoying life and carrying on though.
Because the Fedora Project removes access levels after 12 months of inactivity, I was required to file a ticket as a returning developer of the 'packager' group. This was processed very quickly by Kevin Fenzi and all my access level restored. Kevin is always extremely helpful though he is always busy ... busy.
Current activities are bringing packages from Fedora into Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) in order to have more science and astronomy packages available on Enterprise Linux (EL).
Java being a language I do prefer to code, I am also trying to get useful packages into or back into Fedora. Once done they can be looked at possible inclusion in EPEL.
I have another couple of projects in the early stages and more details will follow in future posts. One I am very excited about and will involve design, engineering and manufacture of the prototype.
Watch this space for this years Christmas sweater post.
The latest iteration of the Red Hat sponsored Fedora GNU Linux distribution has been released. Fedora 43 comes with many updates and new features. For more information, read the release notes at the link below.
Fedora 40 has been End Of Life (EOL) now for a while. I have kept Fedora 40 Virtual Machines (VMs) for the purpose helping with upgrade issue bugs, but it is now time to delete these VMs and move on. I would encourage anyone still running Fedora 40 to upgrade as soon as possible because leaving it increases the chance of upgrade problems.
