http://www.mjmwired.net/linux making sense of mixed up software Tue, 13 May 2008 14:06:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Can you feel the burn of “Sulphur” ? After an unfortunate 2 week delay the Fedora project just announced the release of Fedora 9. Fedora has always been known to be the latest and greatest and this release is no different, rough edges and all. A great deal of hard work ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2008/05/13/fedora-9-released/ I have a 4yr old Athlon-XP machine which I use as a Media Center/Home Theater PC. It is running Redhat 8.0 (heavily modified) with a Hauppauge PVR-250, MPlayer and some simple/buggy front end. Seeing as I designed it at the end of 2003, quite a bit of software is out ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2008/05/11/mplayer-compile-on-redhat-80/ A frequently asked question is: Where can I find a specific older version of Fedora? The correct answer is: If you CANNOT find it on the official Fedora Mirror List, then chances are it is too old and not supported. Unless you need an older version for some very specific task, ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2008/04/30/download-older-versions-of-fedora/ Just for fun … inspired by the Fedora bloggers. # history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] \" \" i}}'|sort -rn|head On my Fedora 8 box: 481 ls 297 cd 54 vim 24 rm 17 du 12 sudo 12 mv 9 who 9 screen 9 find On my CentOS 5.1 box: 344 ls 234 cd 54 sudo 29 vim 23 rpm 22 ./annoying_app_i_cant_get_to_work_on_centos5 18 ./configure 16 pwd 15 wget 15 scp On ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2008/04/11/history/ After identifying exactly what my local linux server requirements were, I decided to take a good look at my hardware options. From the start, I wanted to (1) save money, (2) save electricity/power and (3) minimize noise. To address these issues, there were many decisions I made. First of ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2008/03/14/local-server-hardware/ I response to my previous post, I started defining a set of requirements for a separate local server. By separate, I mean specifically a physically different machine than my desktop. Previously I had my desktop PC running Linux (Fedora) with all desktop applications, as well as several server ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2008/03/01/local-server-requirements/ … for me. I am finally giving up on Fedora as a server. I find it just too unreliable. I have been using Fedora since FC1 (and been on Redhat since RH6.0), but for the most part I only used it as a desktop operating system. When I was ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2008/02/11/fedora-makes-a-terrible-server/ I noted some sites started pushing to PHP5 with the announcement last year that PHP4 would be EOL (end-of-life) in 2007. In truth I understand that there is no longer a compelling reason to remain with PHP4. The biggest obstacle was older software that did not support PHP5 (since version ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2008/01/26/should-i-migrate-to-php5/ I will be on vacation in India for the remainder of the year and some days into the coming year. I will be unable to answer any emails or provide any help or support for information available on my website. I apologize in advance if I owe you an email ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2007/12/13/away-from-the-console/ Do you fear the “Werewolf” * ? The Fedora project just released Fedora 8 with a great deal of enthusiasm. Fedora had been slipping behind in the past few releases and there have always been quality issues, but the team hopes this release will put them back on track. The highlights from ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2007/11/08/fedora-8-released/