I’m still getting used to using YUM and RPMs again after being a FreeBSD ports guy for so long. YUM certainly makes it much simpler and faster to update packages, but there are still a few little gotchas! I’m getting used to ;).
Sunday 11th July 2010
Friday 04th June 2010
I’ve been running Fedora 13 Goddard on my ThinkPad X40 for the last few days. Aside from some rendering and install issues, things are pretty smooth sailing.
Friday 28th May 2010
hwbrowser is a slick little GTK application that probes your Linux machine’s hardware and presents the results in a two pane window, in a similar fashion to OS X’s Hardware Profiler.
Tuesday 25th May 2010
From the Fedora tracker. I’ll be grabbing the DVD and Xfce releases :).
Monday 24th May 2010
As with my beloved FreeBSD, Fedora has a /etc/fstab file that lists partitions to be automatically mounted on boot, but with one important difference: Fedora uses a partition’s UUID and not its label.
Saturday 22nd May 2010
Having got used to Python 3.0 development on my Mac through MacPorts, I was a little surprised to find it currently unavailable for Fedora, at least in Constantine (Fedora 12, the current stable release) without any third party RPM sources.
Friday 21st May 2010
Because of some licencing issues (that from a pragmatic point of view don’t really bother me) TrueCrypt for Linux isn’t usually available from package managers unless you add third party repositories. I really hate that word. I prefer installing it manually, and the installer lets me choose where to put it.
Wednesday 19th May 2010
Quick tip I picked up this afternoon. If you try to extract a series of archives with unrar or unzip and you get this error:
% unzip *zip
caution: filename not matched
… you can get around it by escaping the asterisk.
% unzip \*zip
I wonder why it works like this when virtually nothing else does?
Tuesday 18th May 2010
It seems all I had to do was mention Fedora a few times and I started getting technical support emails :). I’m still more of a FreeBSD guy, but I hope these help.
