http://www.mjmwired.net/linux making sense of mixed up software Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:01:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you missed it there seems to be yet another debate going on about updates in Fedora. I don’t intend to rehash anything. Josh Boyer has a bit of an op-ed post which I think is a good read. Think of the issue in a simple scenario: Should Fedora 12, ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2010/03/11/stable-release-updates-in-fedora/ I know the trend now is “status updates”, but I still enjoy reading blogs more. And I’ve been doing lots more reading and far less writing lately. I thought I might share the Fedora and Linux blogs that I enjoy. (Sorry I don’t have an OPML link). Fedora Hans’ hacking log ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2010/02/09/fedora-and-linux-blogs/ I have a dozen Google Wave invites left. Use my contact form with your email and I’ll send you an invite. Pretty cool, but too bad it eats up 99% CPU and 15% of my memory with Fedora 3.5 in Linux! Maybe 20% ram … 11/27: 1pm EST Still 8 ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2009/11/25/google-wave/ I prefer to keep Windows on the MBR. So I install grub to a separate partition. I then allow the Windows Loader to chainload grub (example). I noticed a problem with the Fedora 12 Anaconda Installer. If I chose to install grub to the First sector of boot ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2009/11/17/boot-failure-when-fedora-12-grub-installs-to-non-mbr-partition/ It’s that time of year again, the Fedora Project announced the release of Fedora 12. This release has received a great deal of polish, and with that plenty of media and documentation to go along with it. Please see what’s new in Fedora 12. Some of the highlights include: Optimized performance - ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2009/11/17/fedora-12-released/ This post really has no purpose other than just a snapshot for me. My current c:\boot.ini: [boot loader] timeout=15 default=c:\linux3.bin [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect c:\linux1.bin="[ sda7] Fedora 11 (32) [06/2009]" c:\linux2.bin="[ sda8] Fedora 9 (32) [05/2008]" c:\linux3.bin="[ sda9] Fedora 11 ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2009/11/05/nt-bootloader-update/ Well CentOS is officially released. Now the mailing list whining can be stopped … until at least 5.5! For new installs grab an ISO. For upgrades (which is generally safe), just run: # yum update Or if you want to be very careful: # yum clean all # yum update glibc\* # yum update ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2009/10/21/centos-54-released/ Recent versions of Linux and the Xorg X-Windows system have been engineered to require very little configuration settings to properly detect graphics options and display resolutions. In most cases graphics should “just work”. The Xorg system stores all its configuration options in the file: xorg.conf. Many distributions including Fedora ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2009/09/15/default-xorg-resolution/ This is fun. In order to really compare the two, someone must try both: http://www.fedoradallas.com/index.html http://www.ubuntunapa.com/html/index.html “…it really is a matter of personal taste” (via Jef Spaleta) http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2009/09/05/personal-taste-fedora-vs-ubuntu/ As I mentioned previously, I run many sites on my web server. Yesterday I decided to clean up some sites that their owners had neglected or not used. One such site was running Apache Tomcat Java Server, which I did not care to leave running. Now I, like many ... http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2009/08/30/all-in-one-configuration-tools/