News : Fedora 40 Beta RC 1.10 compose ...

The Fedora Linux 40 Beta RC 1.10 compose is GO and will be shipped live on Tuesday, 26th March 2024.

This announcement was made on the devel-announce list by Aoife Moloney.

Aoife Moloney, the Fedora Operations Architect, has recently joined the Fedora community.

The Beta RC compose serves as a preliminary version of the upcoming Fedora release and allows Quality Engineering (QE) to thoroughly test the system and identify any critical issues before the final release.

You can find schedule for Fedora 40 on the official website.

News : Flutter on Fedora 40 - the run debug info.

The run command comes with info about the running process, see:

[mythcat@fedora examples]$ ../flutter/bin/flutter run
Launching lib/main.dart on Linux in debug mode...
Building Linux application...                                           
Syncing files to device Linux...                                 1,488ms

Flutter run key commands.
r Hot reload. 🔥🔥🔥
R Hot restart.
h List all available interactive commands.
d Detach (terminate "flutter run" but leave application running).
c Clear the screen
q Quit (terminate the application on the device).

A Dart VM Service on Linux is available at: http://127.0.0.1:38903/k8tmzU7n0NQ=/
The Flutter DevTools debugger and profiler on Linux is available at:
http://127.0.0.1:9100?uri=http://127.0.0.1:38903/k8tmzU7n0NQ=/

If you open that URL you will see this type of informations:

Fedora 40 : Spectacle tool.

Spectacle is a screenshot taking utility for the KDE desktop. Spectacle can also be used in non-KDE X11 desktop environments.

This is the GitHub project for this tool.

[root@fedora mythcat]# dnf5 install spectacle.x86_64
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package                       Arch   Version                 Repository      Size
Installing:                                                                      
 spectacle                    x86_64 24.02.0-1.fc41          updates-te   4.8 MiB
Installing dependencies:                                                         
...

This is an screenshot with this tool:

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Fedora 40 : sngrep tool.

The sngrep is a tool for displaying SIP calls message flows from terminal and supports live capture to display realtime SIP packets and can also be used as PCAP viewer.

[mythcat@fedora ~]# dnf copr enable irontec/sngrep
[mythcat@fedora ~]# dnf install sngrep
[mythcat@fedora ~]# exit
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo sngrep  -d ens1 -O save.pcap port 8080 and udp

The result is this:

News : Flutter on Fedora 40.

Flutter transforms the development process. Build, test, and deploy beautiful mobile, web, desktop, and embedded experiences from a single codebase.

Read more on the official webpage.

Theoretically, Flutter can be used much easier in the Fedora 40 Linux distribution than in a Windows operating system.

The Windows installation method requires more complicated steps with the use of S.D.K. and settings of Android Studio I.D.E. .

Here are the steps you need to follow for a default installation.

[mythcat@fedora ~]$ mkdir ~/FlutterProjects
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ cd FlutterProjects/
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ wget https://storage.googleapis.com/flutter_infra_release/releases
/stable/linux/flutter_linux_3.3.10-stable.tar.xz
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ tar xf flutter_linux_3.3.10-stable.tar.xz
[mythcat@fedora ~]$
...

[mythcat@fedora FlutterProjects]$ ./flutter/bin/flutter doctor

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ A new version of Flutter is available!                  │
│                                                         │
│ To update to the latest version, run "flutter upgrade". │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
...

      If the Android SDK has been installed to a custom location, please use
      `flutter config --android-sdk` to update to that location.

[✗] Chrome - develop for the web (Cannot find Chrome executable at
    google-chrome)
    ! Cannot find Chrome. Try setting CHROME_EXECUTABLE to a Chrome executable.
[✓] Linux toolchain - develop for Linux desktop
[!] Android Studio (not installed)
[✓] VS Code (version 1.87.2)
[✓] Connected device (1 available)
[✓] HTTP Host Availability

! Doctor found issues in 3 categories.
[mythcat@fedora FlutterProjects]$ ./flutter/bin/flutter upgrade

...

    ! Cannot find Chrome. Try setting CHROME_EXECUTABLE to a Chrome executable.
[✓] Linux toolchain - develop for Linux desktop
[!] Android Studio (not installed)
[✓] VS Code (version 1.87.2)
[✓] Connected device (1 available)
[✓] Network resources

! Doctor found issues in 4 categories.

[mythcat@fedora FlutterProjects]$ ./flutter/bin/flutter config --enable-linux-desktop
Setting "enable-linux-desktop" value to "true".

You may need to restart any open editors for them to read new settings.

[mythcat@fedora FlutterProjects]$ mkdir examples
[mythcat@fedora FlutterProjects]$ cd examples/

[mythcat@fedora examples]$ ../flutter/bin/flutter create .
Creating project ....
Resolving dependencies... (5.1s)
Got dependencies.
Wrote 129 files.

All done!
You can find general documentation for Flutter at: https://docs.flutter.dev/
Detailed API documentation is available at: https://api.flutter.dev/
If you prefer video documentation, consider:
https://www.youtube.com/c/flutterdev

In order to run your application, type:

  $ cd .
  $ flutter run

Your application code is in ./lib/main.dart.

[mythcat@fedora examples]$ cd .
[mythcat@fedora examples]$ ls
analysis_options.yaml  ios    macos         README.md  windows
android                lib    pubspec.lock  test
examples.iml           linux  pubspec.yaml  web
[mythcat@fedora examples]$ ../flutter/bin/flutter run

The result is this simple default example:

News : SELinux wizzard tool !

I found today in Fedora linux this tool for SELinux with a GUI that allows creating linux security policies.

I will write a little about this system because it is a very good solution.

When I started studying selinux, it was not very well implemented and it seems that the interest of users to be protected is higher.

As you well know, the starting points are network security and data protection and kernel-level intrusions into software.

For those who don't know, SELinux is a system that allows limiting defined resources and allowing other actions or not.

I tested the tool and I can say that it solves only the standard file creation part without the possibility of selecting the SELinux bools variables.

If the one who created this tool will continue to be a very good tool.

It's currently a wizzard interface, I'd call it a Node Editor to allow the assembly of different processing blocks (nodes) into combinations that feed data to each other along connections you specify to produce complex effects.

After completing the steps in the wizard, you will have some default files.

I used the name firefox because the security of the browser is very low at the moment.

Here are some images of this tool:

News : ... about new about Google Analytics 4.

I found at Google.com analytics academy this message that urges us to go through the courses from the skillshop.exceedlms.com website.

It seems to pass this is quite important if they offered free courses:

These courses are about Universal Analytics. Starting July 1, 2023, standard UA properties will stop processing data (July 1, 2024 for UA 360 properties). Learn about Google Analytics 4, our next-generation measurement solution, with these free courses on Skillshop.

News : VirtualBox 7.0.14 released! from Oracle.

Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the Changelog

I also use a version of Fedora running on VirtualBox for tests and rapid development.

Most use Linux on older hardware as a backup OS...

You can use Linux with specific non-default settings for good security of the operating system, but it does not make it invincible.

I don't know if VirtualBox solved the resize of the virtual partition - this was the last issue I encountered with this tool, but it is useful if you want to test something quickly.

Fedora 40 : Find version and GlibC flaw !

Because today I saw a video about the GlibC flaw that lets attackers get root on major distros, I will show an easy way to find the version of this lib with dnf and dnf5 tools:

[root@fedora var]# dnf in glibc
Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:06 ago on Wed 31 Jan 2024 10:25:13 PM EET.
Package glibc-2.38.9000-35.fc40.x86_64 is already installed.
Package glibc-2.38.9000-35.fc40.i686 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[root@fedora var]# dnf5 in glibc
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package "glibc-2.38.9000-35.fc40.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "glibc-2.38.9000-35.fc40.i686" is already installed.

You can see in the name is add the version: 2.38.9000-35.fc40.x86_64.

This is the video about GlibC from Bits inside by René Rebe.

Fedora 39 : Fixing common upgrade issues.

The most common issue is that the Linux system hangs due to disk space and upgrades.

Here's what you need to do:

Ensure you have root access by editing the boot sequence from the boot menu with the word single and entering the root password.

... start the network in the maintenance environment with the command:

# systemctl restart NetworkManager

Check if you can update with the DNF5 tool or DNF , see this webpage:

# dnf5 upgrade --refresh

If the update tool tells you that you have no space available, then you can clean up with:

# journalctl --disk-usage
# journalctl --vacuum-size=16M

The size of 16M is a relative size related to how the resource is allocated!

Another possibility would be to reallocate the space.

NOTE: If you are using a virtual disk with .vdi extension on Windows OS, then I don't have a solution.

Although virtualbox has an interface that would allow resizing the virtual disk, it didn't work for me.

News : Oracle comes with new ODP.NET Support for .NET 8.

Oracle's .NET development community numbers over 800,000 members. Join us to enhance your Oracle Database skills through .NET (Core), .NET Framework, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio step-by-step tutorials, technical articles, white papers, and videos.

More infos can read more on the official webpage.

You can see an old video on the official youtube OracleDOTNET.

Fedora 39 : Foot - the sway terminal.

Today, I will show how to use a fast, lightweight, and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator named Foot.

You can install it easily with the DNF5 tool :

The project can be found on this codeberg repo.

On the sawy desktop environment, you can use Win+D keys just to type a command to start an application.

You can start easily by typing foot or you can type on an open terminal, see:

[mythcat@fedora ~]$ foot
warn: wayland.c:1509: fractional scaling not available
warn: wayland.c:1512: no server-side cursors available, falling back to client-side cursors
warn: fcft.c:583: failed to get full font name
warn: fcft.c:583: failed to get full font name

I used updatedb and locate commands to find the foot.ini file and change some settings like font size, and more :