Fedora 21 Release Party, Bangalore

The Fedora Project announced the release of Fedora 21 on December 09, 2014. To celebrate the release a [Fedora 21 release party] (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F21_Bangalore) was organized at Red Hat, Bangalore with the help of Archit and Humble. The event was scheduled to start at 10AM but people started coming in from 9:30AM itself. Around 40 people turned up among them a good number were college students. The release party finally started at 10:30AM by [Archit] (https://fedoraproject....

2015-01-15 · 2 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Migrate a running process into tmux

Being a regular tmux user. Migrating a running process into tmux using reptyr comes handy. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use reptyr to grab it, and then kill the ssh session and head on home. The package available in Fedora/Ubuntu repositories....

2014-12-27 · 1 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Git Password Caching

Bookmark for me. To use this option, you need to turn on the credential helper so that Git will save your password in memory for some time: $ git config --global credential.helper cache # Set git to use the credential memory cache By default Git will cache your password for 15 minutes. You can change this if you like. git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600' # Set the cache to timeout after 1 hour (setting is in seconds) Ref: https://help....

2014-06-10 · 1 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Bangalore Fedora Meetup, 8th March 2014

After a long time, we had a Bangalore Fedora meetup(March 8, 2014) at Red Hat, Bangalore. The attendees for the event were: Anil Shah Varun Shastry Rejy M Cyriac Ratnadeep Debnath Sayan Chowdhury Sarup Banskota The discussion took place around the following agendas: Fedora Monthly Meetup We decided start off with a local Fedora meetup here in Bangalore every month to chalk out on how to reach to a greater audience in and around city to evangelize on Fedora, FOSS and contributing back to the community....

2014-03-08 · 1 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Waartaa applies GSoC 2014

We are elated to inform you that Waartaa has been accepted as a project idea for GSoC under Fedora’s umbrella. For those who are new to Waartaa, Waartaa is an open-source communication tool for teams and groups. It is built on top of IRC. Currently, Waartaa is an IRC client as a service and it supports centralized logging, 24x7 idling, notifications and unique identity to a user on IRC. The source code is available at https://github....

2014-03-07 · 2 min · Sayan Chowdhury