Fedora 8 is released!
I’m bit torrenting is as we speak. Get it here. Be nice and download via bit torrent if you can so we can all share in the bandwidth! And here’s the release announcement: Official Announcement: (To the...
View ArticleFedora 8 Upgrade Process
I tried upgrading Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 a few times when it first came out and it kept getting stuck at 26% in the dependency checking phase. I went on the fedora IRC room and I was told to remove my...
View ArticleFedora 8 upgrade continues…..
Upgrading to Fedora 7 didn’t take this long and neither did Fedora 6, but that’s ok – as long as it happens. It’s nearly done with the dependency checking. It’s been getting closer and closer to the...
View ArticleArgh! Fedora 8 upgrade dependency check continues…
It’s still right at the end of that little progress bar. The HDD activity light on my compute continues so I’m hoping it’s not frozen, but just working on figuring out the dependencies on all of my...
View ArticleFedora 8 Upgrade Aborted
It may have been about to install or it may never have installed, but after 35 hours, I was getting a little annoyed. I’ve decided to try the unsupported yum upgrade. I’ll try it first one a guinea...
View ArticleYum upgrade may be the way to go if you have Third Party packages
Well, the entire upgrade process is not yet over, so I don’t want to get too excited, but I think this may solve my problem. I started a yum upgrade on my living room computer – which will one day be...
View ArticleFedora 8 yum upgrade success
Well, at least it worked pretty well on my future PVR. I will give a more detailed explanation/directions of my experience for others who may be wondering if this is really as scary as it sounds since...
View ArticleUpgrading Fedora with Yum
I followed the procedure at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq so the point of this is just to go over my experience with these steps. Review and remove all .rpmsave and .rpmnew files before...
View ArticleFedora 8 upgrade on Mario
Mario is my main Linux box. I had to uninstall x264 this comes from the fact that I mixed livna and freshrpms. I never intended to do so, but I started with freshrpms back in the day, but nowadays I...
View ArticleMario Yum Live Upgrade to Fedora 8 complete
I had to uninstall a few more multimedia packages, but it eventually upgraded. After rebooting I arrived at GDM just fine – yay! I’m not sure if it’s just me, but the bootup time on Fedora 8 seems to a...
View ArticleGetting Compiz Fusion to Work Well
In order to get my title bars back, all I had to do was run compiz-fusion in the terminal. To get it to persist I had to do SYSTEM–>Preferences–>Personal–>Sessions. Click on add, name it...
View ArticleWhy do people come here?
I looked at the top 60 of 365 search strings people type into search engines when they come to my site. These represent 34.14% of the search terms people type to get here. It seems that most people...
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How Flock has completely changed my browsing habits
Flock has completely changed how I interact with the so-called Social Web. In my case, that means Facebook and Flickr. Ever since I first started using Flock and received the help I needed to get the...
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Social Web Part 2: Mugshot
Mugshot is the website that continues to surprise me the more I use it. At first it was just a website with an unusual purple theme. Then it was the very frustrating site with the purple theme. Now...
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