Archive for the 'Desktop' Category
Friday, October 10th, 2008
The admins running Wikipedia are almost complete in migrating their servers from a mix of RedHat and Fedora to Ubuntu. The primary reasons behind the switch, according to Brion Vibber (Wikimedia CTO), were personal preference, Ubuntu availability on the desktop and better support/stability compared to Fedora. As a server, one might think that an enterprise […]
Posted in Fedora, Server, Desktop, Opinion, Red Hat, CentOS | 4 Comments »
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
After spending a good deal of time configuring Fedora 9 I thought I would take this opportunity to provide my thoughts and feedback. The following is my Review of Fedora 9 (F9).
“Sulphur” smells only just a little.
Installation Media
The first thing I was happy to see was that the team finally decided to offer Fedora 9 […]
Posted in Fedora, Software, Distributions, Desktop, Hardware, F9 | 7 Comments »
Monday, July 16th, 2007
As mentioned in my Fedora 7 Review, there were some ACPI regressions in functionality. The basic problem is as such: Before I hit ‘Suspend’ my mouse is working fine, however the mouse fails to activate after the computer is resumed.
To get the mouse to work again, I must run the following, after which the mouse […]
Posted in Fedora, Devices, Desktop, Hardware, F7 | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
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Posted in Fedora, Software, Distributions, Desktop, Hardware, Setup, F7 | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Dell’s IdeaStorm provided a method for Dell customers to provide feedback to the company on what consumers really wanted. Not surprisingly, the biggest request was for Dell to pre-installed Linux on their Desktops and Laptops.
Currently there are vendors who support Linux on their computers, however most of this focus has been on enterprise […]
Posted in Linux, Distributions, Desktop | 5 Comments »
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
If you pay attention to Linux news, I’m sure you’ve heard that Eric S. Raymond (commonly called “ESR”) has dumped Fedora in favor of Ubuntu. In case you’re wondering who he is, he is the author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar which is one of the best essays about open source development (highly recommended […]
Posted in Fedora, Philosophy, Distributions, Desktop, Opinion | No Comments »
Sunday, September 17th, 2006
While Adobe is hard at work at version 9 of the Flash plugin for Linux, there was a critical security update that affected version 7 for Linux.
It is recommended everyone update their flash plugin. Users of the macromedia.repo who have configured yum, should run:
# su -c ‘yum update flash-plugin’
Posted in Fedora, Multimedia, Software, Desktop | No Comments »
Saturday, July 8th, 2006
AMD released their first X86 based 64 bit processor over 3 years ago. While the original processors, Opterons, were for servers, the desktop variants, Athlon 64, soon followed. Due to the open nature of the Linux kernel, distributions of Linux supporting the 64 bit architecture were readily (and freely) available before Windows.
In the past year, […]
Posted in Linux, Kernel, Devices, Server, Desktop, Hardware | No Comments »