Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

Software Engineer. Linux systems aficionado and developer in Fedora, CentOS, Mageia, and openSUSE. Ex Red Hat, Inc. Ex Datto, Inc. Views are my own.

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2025-04-28 11:46:59 UTC

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For what it's worth @npub1080…cr2f, you and @npub1exv…3ch9 have been excellent stewards of fosstodon.org the entire time I've been here. I have greatly appreciated your approach to maintaining this instance (otherwise I wouldn't be a Fosstodon supporter!).
I am sorry you are leaving fosstodon, and I would not be surprised if @npub1exv…3ch9 does the same. But I am sad that you feel that it's all been bad for the past several years.
And I am sad that fosstodon will shut down. 😦

2025-04-28 11:41:30 UTC

The worst part about people basically driving @npub1080…cr2f and @npub1exv…3ch9 to consider shutting down fosstodon is that since Mastodon's account migration facilities are garbage, I will actually *lose* my historical presence on the fediverse if they shut down.
The fediverse seems to be a meaner place than what it replaced. And that's a shame.

2025-04-16 14:48:56 UTC

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And with @npub1hpw…cd0d 42 released just yesterday, looks like things are lining up nicely for you!
(I don't know if you're a KDE user, but Fedora KDE is now a full-blown Edition this cycle, on the same tier as GNOME! As one of the Fedora KDE developers and an enthusiastic user, I'm very excited!)

2025-04-10 01:37:46 UTC

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Note that the @npub1hpw…cd0d 42 #LXQt spin is actually Wayland by default. It uses #Miriway as its compositor.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LXQt_2.1

2025-03-19 01:40:35 UTC

Today, I've lost all hope. I just saw a pull request proposed by someone that was reviewed by an AI bot and the output of that bot was used to approve the PR to merge.
We're doomed.

2025-03-17 02:45:56 UTC

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Alpine dropped Plasma X11 a while ago. I expect KaOS and others to start dropping it too.
From Fedora KDE's perspective, Plasma X11 is still dead to us. The fact that *someone else* is shipping the `kwin-x11` and `plasma-workspace-x11` packages in the repository doesn't change the unsupported nature of the Plasma X11 session with Fedora KDE.

2025-02-26 03:07:54 UTC

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It's pretty clearly aimed at the Steam Machine / AI dev market, doncha know? /s
Seriously though, it feels like an AMD "proof product" being sold by Framework. In other words, it exists for AMD to drive some future goal (in this case, more ROCm usage for AI/ML) rather than to be successful for Framework's goals.

2025-02-22 20:43:50 UTC

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There is zero reason to push an image *period* that isn't connected to published content. Don't even push it to an alternative tag. It's just a bad idea all around.

2025-02-22 17:54:37 UTC

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Because it doesn't make sense to do that. Doing so would make it difficult to do testing of artifacts on content intended for release. What probably needs to happen is that those containers need to not be published until the push to the mirrors instead.

2025-02-19 12:21:24 UTC

Today, #Wayland is more colorful than ever. To see whether your Wayland environment is more colorful, you need the latest #Waycheck!
@npub1hpw…cd0d
- F41: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-2c9936314e
- F40: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-a808699610
@npub1smf…28q2 / RHEL / @npub1ax5…lujq / etc.
- EPEL10.1: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-d2ead9d907
- EPEL10.0: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-34c091781c
- EPEL9: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-5e99b73e1b
@npub1djg…3wvl
- TW: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1247057
- Leap 16.0: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1247058
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2025-01-29 05:19:33 UTC

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The automatic bug reporting tool for Fedora (ABRT) was recently updated (ported to gtk4 and updated for new RHBZ API), so that should be probably okay now. KDE software on Fedora triggers DrKonqi instead, and reports to the KDE Bugzilla and that should always be working.

2025-01-19 17:47:28 UTC

It's kind of funny that the one thing eBPF can't do in Linux is actually do packet filtering (firewall) stuff. Calling it BPF without having that ability is just weird.

2025-01-17 04:27:05 UTC

This week, I've done a bunch of #SDL3 stuff in @npub1hpw…cd0d.
- My change for Fedora Linux 42 to replace #SDL2 with sdl2-compat is done. SDL3 powers all SDL applications in F42!
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SDL2onSDL3
- Reported and got fixed an issue in sdl2-compat that caused mupen64plus to fail to build, backported that fix to Rawhide
- Updated SDL3 to v3.1.10 for F40+
- F41: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-8c064ffe4f
- F40: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-ae473dc268
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2025-01-04 08:51:25 UTC

Being sick sucks. 🤒

2024-11-21 21:41:55 UTC

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is fantastic, especially on @npub1hpw…cd0d! If you haven't tried it recently, check it out!
https://kde.fedoraproject.org

2024-11-21 21:32:11 UTC

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Konsole ftw. :kdenew:

2024-11-12 16:06:47 UTC

My first #RISCV board, it's going to be an interesting experience... I just might have the opportunity to play with @npub1hpw…cd0d on RISC-V!
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/470/831/420/428/590/original/befddfd1716e4a16.jpg
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2024-11-01 09:46:11 UTC

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Note that you don't need to reinstall if you're not dealing with encryption. Btrfs has non-destructive online resize (including shrink) so you can make space for a swap partition if you so desire.

2024-10-27 09:03:55 UTC

Finally, @npub1q98…khes tells us why the name UMU! #UbuntuSummit
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/378/575/466/510/192/original/592f913c42f135e9.jpg

2024-10-27 08:48:19 UTC

At #UbuntuSummit, @npub1q98…khes explains how UMU enables a fully FOSS alternative to Steam for playing Windows games!
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/378/508/384/708/073/original/c88722c14cb64023.jpg

2024-10-23 13:33:09 UTC

I am happy to report that I can play SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS on my @npub15f7…m7wr 16 running @npub1hpw…cd0d with @npub1ncy…3x0q!
Even day zero AAA games work on Linux now. It's awesome. 🕹️😂

2024-10-15 21:01:05 UTC

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The main reason this is not as good as it could be is because most distributions have the non-upstream LOCKDOWN patch that blocks hibernate for secure boot. As a consequence of most systems being SB-enabled by default (or by force) for the past decade, hibernate functionality has gone largely untested and unloved.
The Chrome OS folks were going to fix it some time ago, but that stalled out and now with CrOS rebasing on Android, there's no hope left unless someone funds it.

2024-10-13 21:11:05 UTC

New protocols, new #Waycheck with v1.4.0. Time to ship it *everywhere* for your #Wayland checking needs! 😉
@npub1hpw…cd0d
- F41: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-5a0a6806aa
- F40: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-34b565cbaf
Fedora EPEL for @npub1smf…28q2 and RHEL
- EPEL10: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2024-c32205420e
- EPEL9: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2024-a259bbffdc
@npub1djg…3wvl
- openSUSE Tumbleweed: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1207664
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2024-09-23 11:55:34 UTC

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Heh, no problem. The main value of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is wrapped up in all those certification programs. Red Hat participates in vendor certification programs for RHEL to run on, and software vendors also have certifications with RHEL (sometimes in both directions!). Managing the requirements of these certifications is what they do for a RHEL user.
Most people don't need to worry about them, so CentOS Stream is more than fine.

2024-09-23 11:36:26 UTC

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The main reason is that sometimes updates trigger recertification requirements (crypto library upgrades are a big one), depending on how strict the certification is. And that means sending it to labs and waiting for them to rubber-stamp it. This matters for RHEL but not really CentOS, so CentOS gets it right away while RHEL users have to wait.

2024-09-21 21:02:45 UTC

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It is possible to request a virtual display for casting through the ScreenCast portal.

2024-09-21 14:47:07 UTC

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FYI, KWin does support creating virtual displays too. So it should be possible to support Plasma Mobile and Plasma Desktop.
cc: @npub1d4a…n3jx

2024-09-15 09:28:59 UTC

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The ending of Red Hat's involvement in that project was also seemingly marked by the end of Red Hat trying to bring Linux to kids in general. It was really sad to me because if things had been different, Fedora might be the reference platform for the Raspberry Pi instead...

2024-09-11 08:44:09 UTC

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I think the Rust ecosystem's choice for a relatively useless standard library is an overreaction to the "dead batteries" argument some folks have in the Python space.
(That is, "the standard library is where things go to die" became a trope in some circles of the Python community. I disagree with this premise, but a lot of those people influenced Rust fairly early on.)

2024-09-05 19:17:57 UTC

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I will also point out that this is also a big part of why SUSE distributions (and @npub1djg…3wvl Tumbleweed / Leap 16 in particular) are switching to SELinux as the default LSM: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/YN4TCBCU4A2V5G2MWR5EWYF46267BO7F/
(I helped with the initial effort to make SELinux production-ready on openSUSE, so I'm very excited to see this finally happen!)

2024-09-05 19:07:45 UTC

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Also, in general, defense in depth is about protecting you against *unknown* threats, not known ones. There's still all the things that just silently fail closed instead of failing open because of SELinux.

2024-08-31 18:49:22 UTC

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Yay! 🥳

2024-08-31 18:24:28 UTC

Nearly a year of #Waycheck and a new release is upon us with v1.3.0. Time to ship it *everywhere* for your #Wayland checking needs! 😉
@npub1hpw…cd0d
- F41: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-36aa686a46
- F40: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-40edcc97a2
Fedora EPEL for @npub1smf…28q2 and RHEL
- EPEL10: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2024-e988546f2f
- EPEL9: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2024-13d03d0d5c
@npub1djg…3wvl
- openSUSE Tumbleweed: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1198112
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2024-08-19 15:27:13 UTC

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This might sound bad, but I just don't worry about those things. The services I don't want to use, I just switch them off and go on with my life.

2024-08-19 13:17:21 UTC

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It's usually possible to unlock the bootloader of flagship Samsung phones. That said, I actually *like* the Samsung UI these days, even their versions of the apps. I actually explicitly buy their phones for it.

2024-08-05 16:24:59 UTC

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Why do you think we were at the forefront for that? I don't think I would agree on the two examples you outlined.

2024-08-05 09:25:29 UTC

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So then we'd see something like (using 9 as an example):
```
ID=centos
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
NAME="CentOS Stream"
VERSION_ID=9
VERSION_CODENAME=plow
VERSION="9 (Plow)"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Stream 9 (Plow)"
```
The RHEL side of it would be the same, with just the `ID` and `NAME` swapped (and the `PRETTY_NAME` and `ID_LIKE` being adjusted accordingly to indicate it's RHEL and that it's like CentOS and Fedora).

2024-08-02 05:37:46 UTC

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I met you for the first time shortly after that, at BrickHack 2! 😀