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Saturday, March 31, 2018

Testing the Fedora SOAS.

These are some of the most beautiful projects I appreciate and that's why I'm writing about them.
First is a Fedora Spin with the abbreviations SOAS from Sugar on a Stick.
This Fedora Spin is lightweight and made to run off of a flash drive, or a live CD.
Originally Red Hat and Pentagram developed SoaS as part of the One Laptop Per Child project.
About One Laptop Per Child project you can read here.
They tell us about this project at official web page:
Sugar on a Stick is a Fedora-based operating system featuring the award-winning Sugar Learning Platform and designed to fit on an ordinary USB thumbdrive ("stick").
Let's see some screenshots:

News: Yahoo hit QupZilla.

Like most, you already know as an XFCE environment installation comes with QupZilla web browser.
The QupZilla web browser is a lightweight multiplatform web browser written in Qt Framework and using its web rendering engine QtWebEngine.
If you using Fedora 28 you can get the Falkon web browser.
The Wikipedia tells us about Falkon browser "(formerly QupZilla[3]) is a free and open-source web browser, intended for general users. Falkon is licensed under GPLv3."
The Falkon browser working well with Yahoo.

About QupZilla web browser.

I used this web browser with Fedora 27 distro and then I tested with new Fedora 28.
Same problem from both distros with the Yahoo mail and the QupZilla web browser.
After authenticating when you access the mail button, a message that redirects us to use other browsers.
Is it okay or bad?
Most users would like to have no such issues.

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Fedora 27 : Tips and tricks with hugo framework .

he most important fact in learning development is knowing the information flow and how to drain it knowing the elements and stages of information processing of the content.
That's why I wrote this article succinctly to show you how simple basics of exemplification can correctly complete and help the user to modify and create content.
I will show you how to follow steps into hugo framework and website development with hugo.
You need to read the basic of hugo terms from documentation if you want to learn all about hugo or take some helpful information.
First use --verbose flag gives extra information that will be helpful when we debug or build your hogo website.
You need to know your hugo version because is the old versions has bad issues, check it with:
$ hugo version
The next command is to see and debug your work:
$ hugo --verbose 
How hugo framework works when you start for the first time with hugo development.
Now, the first place that Hugo will look for rules and files is in the layouts/ directory so it will always find the skin.
If you start with hugo then you can change the default.
This files name skins are the files responsible for the look and feel of your site.
You have two ways to create a skin:
  • create it in the layouts/ directory;
  • create it in a sub-directory of the themes/ directory.
A skin in layouts/ folder can’t be customized without updating the templates and static files that it is built from.
The skin created in themes/ folder , can be and that makes it easier for other people to use it.
In my example tutorial , I add this text to themes/test_themes_001/layouts/index.html.
The result of running hugo server command will rput this text on your browser at 127.0.0.1:13131, see command:
$ hugo server --buildDrafts
The hugo command come with many features like :
  • --buildDrafts this include content marked as draft ( see files with draft:true from .md file);
  • --ignoreCache this ignores the cache directory if you use it;
Using --verbose let you to see your errors.
For example a bad template or configuration can come with this error:
 ...Unable to locate layout for "taxonomyTerm" ...
This show you what term created by you is not on your hugo development area.
I make just few changes to show you how the hugo working. First I create the website named hugo_website_001. I used hugo command to add some pages first_test.md and new.md and a theme named test_theme_001, see:
$ hugo new site hugo_website_001
$ cd hugo_website_001
$ hugo new theme test_theme_001
$ hugo new first_test.md
$ hugo new new.md
$ tree 
.
├── archetypes
│   └── default.md
├── config.toml
├── content
│   ├── first_test.md
│   └── new.md
├── data
├── fpaste_hugo.txt
├── layouts
├── public
│   ├── categories
│   │   └── index.xml
│   ├── css
│   ├── index.html
│   ├── index.xml
│   ├── js
│   ├── sitemap.xml
│   └── tags
│       └── index.xml
├── static
└── themes
    └── test_theme_001
        ├── archetypes
        │   └── default.md
        ├── layouts
        │   ├── 404.html
        │   ├── _default
        │   │   ├── list.html
        │   │   └── single.html
        │   ├── index.html
        │   ├── index.html.save
        │   └── partials
        │       ├── footer.html
        │       └── header.html
        ├── LICENSE.md
        ├── static
        │   ├── css
        │   └── js
        └── theme.toml

19 directories, 20 files
$ 
Let's see files for settings - the toml file type. First is the config.toml file:
baseURL = "http://localhost.com"
languageCode = "en-us"
title = "My New Hugo Site"
theme = "test_theme_001"
contentdir ="content"
publishdir = "public"
The next file is the theme.toml .

# theme.toml template for a Hugo theme
# See https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoThemes#themetoml for an example

name = "Test_theme_001"
license = "MIT"
licenselink = "https://github.com/yourname/yourtheme/blob/master/LICENSE.md"
description = "first theme with hugo"
homepage = "http://example.com/"
tags = ["tags","categories"]
features = []
min_version = "0.31"

[author]
  name = "catafest"
  homepage = "free-tutorials.org"

# If porting an existing theme
[original]
  name = ""
  homepage = ""
  repo = ""
I will show a minimal example to understand the changes you need to make to run well with hugo framework and the my custom theme.
I show next how this changes into files is show by hugo on browser.
The basic file load is the index.html from themes/test_theme_001/layouts folder with tag h2 and text Some text !, see:

Some text !


{{ partial "header.html" . }}
This file load another file from partials folder and is named header.html with tag p and this text:
This is a custom header
Let's run the hugo server :
hugo server --theme=test_theme_001 --buildDrafts --ignoreCache --disableFastRender
This is result is this:

Fedora 28 - first installation .

Today we tested the new version of Fedora 28 Beta.
I installed this version of the old Fedora 27 and I tried to use different environments (in this order): XFCE, LXDE and LXQT.
I have received some errors from the xorg service since the motherboard has an Intel graphics card.
I used a Hdmi 1 to DVI cable and that made me an area on the home screen without resizing correctly.
First, I'm not very happy with this dnf installation process for these environments.
However, Fedora 28 now works as much as possible.
I did not test and configure the kernel on the hardware machine.
Here's a screenshot with the new Fedora 28:

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Fedora 27 : Testing the hugo web framework .

The development team come with this shot info: The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
I don't know if is the fastest framework but I'm sure is the fastest process to install and make settings using Fedora distro.
First you need to know this framework works with golang programming language.
Let's start testing this framework with the first step install the golang on the system.
$ sudo dnf install golang
$ mkdir -p $HOME/go
$ echo 'export GOPATH=$HOME/go' >> $HOME/.bashrc
$ source $HOME/.bashrc
$ go env GOPATH
/home/mythcat/go
Now you will have a go folder into home folder. Let's install the hugo framework.
$ cd  go
$ hugo new site hugo_website_001
$ cd hugo_website_001
$ tree
The result will the this:

The next step is the testing the hugo server with some commands:
$ hugo version
$ hugo --verbose
$ hugo server --verbose
$ hugo server
This will start the server and you can be see it at 127.0.0.1:1313. This is a bind address of the default hugo server and you need to set like any website. The file named config.toml in your site directory contains the global configuration for your Hugo site. This settings will make our website to run well. We can use one theme from a list of themes using git tool, see themes gohugo.io. If you get a theme named theme_001 you need to add it into config.toml file like:
theme = theme_001
The next step is to create some content and we can start with draft files. The draft file named first_test.md can be created with this command into hugo_website_001 folder. This will create the file into content folder.
$ hugo new first_test.md
The draf files can be render just if you use D option:
$ hugo server -D
If you don't have install or set a theme then you cannot see the draft or any content web pages. You can create a new theme (example: test_theme_001) and deal with this theme.
hugo new theme test_theme_001
If you use a theme from hugo then hugo is fastest framework, but if you need to create a new theme then for me is as fast as any framework.

Friday, March 23, 2018

Fedora 27 : The LibreOffice the 6.0.2 and 5.4.6.2 versions.

The LibreOffice suite is a good choice for most linux users.
If you try to download the rpm file from the official website you will get the 6.0.2 version of this suite.
The Fedora 27 come with 5.4.6.2 version for this software.
Every announcement by the Document Foundation with updates contains many bug fixes and improvements and this repairs prevent Libreoffice crashes.
Maybe the new Fedora 28 will come with the last version of the LibreOffice version.

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Fedora 27 : Testing the new Django web framework .

Today I tested the Django web framework version 2.0.3 with python 3 on my Fedora 27 distro.
The main reason is to see if the Django and Fedora working well.
I used the pip to install and activate the virtual environment for python. First you need to create your project into your folder. I make one folder named django_001.
$ mkdir django_001
$ cd django_001
The next step is to create and activate the virtual environment for python language and your project.
$ python3 -m venv django_001_venv
$ source django_001_venv/bin/activate
Into this virtual environment named django_001_venv you will install django web framework.
pip install django
If you have problems with update pip then update this tool. Now start the django project named django_test.
$ django-admin startproject django_test
$ cd django_test
$ python3 manage.py runserver
Open the url http://127.0.0.1:8000/ with your web browser.
The result is this:

If you try to use the admin web with password and user you will see errors.
One of the most common problem for django come from settings, let's see some file from the project:

  • manage.py - this runs project specific tasks (the django-admin is used to execute system wide Django tasks) and is used to execute project specific tasks;
  • __init__.py - this file that allows Python packages to be imported from directories where it's present and it's a generic file used in almost all Python applications;
  • settings.py - the configuration settings for the Django project;
  • urls.py - contains URL patterns for the Django project; 
  • wsgi.py - is WSGI configuration properties for the Django project ( you don't need to setup WSGI to develop Django applications).

The next step is to create first django application.
$ python manage.py startapp django_blog
This make a folder named django_blog into the main django_test folder. Into the main django_test folder you have another django_test folder with settings.py file. Add into settings.py file the django_blog application.
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django_blog',
]
Let's fix some issues about admin and the django_blog application.
Into the main django_test folder with manage.py file use this:
$ python3 manage.py migrate
$ python3 manage.py createsuperuser

This fix the django framework and let you to add your superuser using the admin page, see:

The next issue is: create the website ( see the django_blog folder) using the Django web framework.
I don't have a issue for this django_blog but you can follow this tutorial link.

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Fedora 27 : 'No Space Left on Device' errors .

The No Space Left on Device error is a good issue for a linux user.
The error come one issue that you have no space left on your hard drive.
The purpose of linux user is to detect the problem with the linux operating system.
You can use your root account or sudo user to run some of this linux commands.
This error named No Space Left on Device is just a vague problem and can be the cause of multiple vague errors on Linux systems.
Here are some ways you can solve the problem.

Use du and df commands to see if your disk is full (check into home and root folders area):
# df -h
# df -i /
# du -sh /

Check deleted file reserved by process (PID) with lsof:
# lsof / | grep deleted
Take a look at unlinked files:
# lsof -a +L1 *mountpoint*

Check you have bad filesystem blocks with fsck:
# fsck -vcck /dev/sda2

If you use a virtual machine (VM) then you can get this error in process of emulation of linux operating system for some PID.
It also happened to me with Android Studio software under Fedora 27 - the error is show like: No Space Left on Device.
I do not know why this happens, but I assume it's an emulation task in the memory area.

Monday, March 12, 2018

Fedora and childish ideas .

The marketing, design and promotion of any product is a key element of success.
I have to admit that although I am not an active member of Fedora distribution teams and I am glad to be able to help where it is needed.
Over the last time, I spend my online time with my son playing Roblox ( because he is away from me) and trying to show him what the computer can do for people.
This game allows development with the LUA programming language and object creation for users.
The idea that programs and games are essential factors in our lives.
Also the fact that I have been using Fedora for a long time, I have allowed myself to implement an intention to promote the Fedora distribution.
This is a shirt created with the Fedora logo and can be worn in the Roblox game. He found it here.