The “test week,” is for testing Linux kernel 6.5 ahead of the Fedora 39 release, and the “test day” is for testing changes made to the toolbx container software.
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This post shows how to bisect a Fedora kernel to find the source of a regression. I needed that recently and I found no good guide, so I’m at least capturing my notes here, perhaps you find it useful. This approach can be used to identify which exact commit caused a bad kernel behavior on … Continue reading Bisecting Fedora kernel
This guide will walk you through the steps of how to install the latest GNOME alpha and beta packages for Arch Linux.
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Bodhi Linux 7.0 release candidate is available for testing and preparation for an enhanced user experience and updates.
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Fedora Linux’s new web-based Anaconda Web UI installer is now available as a preview image and is out for testing.
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This post will give you a step-by-step guide on setting up your virtual penetration testing lab, along with how to install the various operating systems and vulnerable machines you want to test.
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As previously announced, Taskotron (project page) will be shut down today. See the announcement and its discussion for more details and some background info. As a result, certain tests (beginning with “dist.“) will no longer appear for new updates in Bodhi (in Automated Tests tab). Some of those tests (and even new ones) will hopefully … Continue reading Taskotron is EOL (end of life) today
I’ve already written about this in 2017, but things got simpler since then. Time for an update! If you use virtual machines, your disk images just grow and grow, but never shrink – deleted files inside a VM never free up the space on the host. But you can configure the VM to handle TRIM … Continue reading Automatically shrink your VM disk images when you delete files (Fedora 32 update)
Hello, this is a reminder that you can easily stay informed about important upcoming QA events and help with testing Fedora, especially now during Fedora 32 development period. The first obvious option for existing Fedora contributors is to subscribe to the test-announce mailing list. We announce all our QA meetings, test days, composes nominated for … Continue reading Stay informed about QA events
Update: This got significantly simpler with newer qemu and virt-manager, read an updated post. If you use VMs a lot, you know that with the most popular qcow2 disk format, the disk image starts small, but grows with every filesystem change happening inside the VM. Deleting files inside the VM doesn’t shrink it. Of course … Continue reading Automatically shrink your VM disk images when you delete files