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Eric Mesa | January 11, 2010
So I was unable to preupgrade to Fedora 12, even after the latest update. So I did a yum upgrade since I’ve known that to work in the past. As always, I followed the instructions here. It was very fast this time around compared to past upgrades. It only took 2 hours 40 minutes. I [...]
Eric Mesa | January 7, 2010
A bit more complicated than it should have been. That’s really the lesson here. In fact, it appears not to have worked at all despite about five tries. The first two times I did it 100% with the GUI and had no idea why things were going wrong. The third time I did it on [...]
Eric Mesa | November 19, 2009
The latest version of Fedora is out. Get it here! I’ll probably give it about a month to get all the kinks out and then I’ll give it a shot and talk about it here. I’m excited for some new versions of programs like gPodder. I also want to check out Gnome Shell, the new [...]
Eric Mesa | August 18, 2009
A few weeks ago I did an update to Fedora 11 using preupgrade. Nothing really broke other than iPods. My shuffle doesn’t work as well, but I’m working on fixing that. I also think that the updates are less annoying-looking and are more informative.
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Eric Mesa | June 10, 2009
I missed the release by a couple of days, but as is my tradition, here is the release notice:
Ladies and gentlemen of the Royal Explorers Club! Your attention please. It falls to me to be the host of our proceedings to-day, as we celebrate a great achievement in the annals of this hallowed organization — [...]
Eric Mesa | June 1, 2009
I recently finally moved over to my 64bit computer. I’ve been using Fedora 10 64-bit for at least two weeks now. I was having a lot of trouble with migrating my Tomboy data over from the 32-bit install. It wouldn’t start up and the error message was not as helpful as it [...]
Eric Mesa | April 20, 2009
My wife said since she isn’t using the Linux computer I built for her, that I could use it. It has a Intel Core 2 Duo Dual Core chip, so I was pretty excited to try out 64-bit computing to see if there would be any problems. I installed Fedora 10 since I’m used to [...]
Eric Mesa | February 12, 2009
This month’s Linux Format Magazine includes Fedora 10. I upgraded to Fedora 10 a few months ago via a yum upgrade. I started by looking at Xfce as I’ve been using Xfce non-stop ever since starting “I’m Not Mad” in November. Xfce is much lighter than Gnome and I’m able to use Blender more effectively. [...]
Eric Mesa | January 6, 2009
Now that I have “I’m Not Mad” caught up for the next month, I thought it was an OK time to upgrade to Fedora 10. Unlike with the Fedora 9 release, there haven’t been huge complaints of the upgrade causing the system to become unusable. (Most, though not all, of that came from the version [...]
Eric Mesa | December 11, 2008
About a month ago my wife asked me to get rid of the extra POS Linux and BSD computers I was using for my renderfarm. They quite a bit of an eyesore and so I agreed. Unfortunately, in the the group of computers I got rid of was my first ever Linux computer. It ran [...]
Eric Mesa | December 10, 2008
If you use Fedora and you want to be able to do useful things like play MP3s or DVDs you need to add an external repository like FreshRPMs or Livna. This is because MP3 playback is covered by patents in the United States, libdecss may be illegal to distribute, and a license agreement is required [...]
Eric Mesa | November 25, 2008
Linux Format Magazine already has a review.
And here’s the release announcement:
DATELINE: 2008-11-25
KEY FINGERPRINT: 61A8 ABE0 91FF 9FBB F4B0 7709 BF22 6FCC 4EBF C273
LOCATION: GEOSYNC ORBIT, FEDORA SPACE STATION VIA GLOBAL IRC NETWORK
BROADCASTING: FREEDOM FRIENDS FEATURES FIRST
(Cue J. Strauss’ “Blue Danube.”)
THIS IS FEDORA SPACE OPERATIONS ANNOUNCING with great pleasure the
successful launch of the new ship, Fedora [...]
Eric Mesa | November 7, 2008
I’ve been spending time in KDE on the weekends since I usually don’t need to update my podcasts (which I manage in Rythmbox) and here are my current impressions. Now that the latest nVidia drivers have come out, I was able to enable the desktop composite effects in KDE. This does not use Compiz, but [...]
Eric Mesa | October 14, 2008
Hardly a day goes by that I don’t see an article on Linux Today about Moonlight and what a horrible person Miguel de Icaza is. So I thought I’d go ahead and do some exploration of what’s going on with Moonlight and Silverlight. First of all, what’s Silverlight? Check out the Silverlight [...]
Eric Mesa | September 13, 2008
So I waited until about halfway through Fedora 9’s initial life-cycle to install it. I listed the reasons for that here. Once KDE 4.1 was finally out and most of the complaints had stopped, I took the plunge. I am actually very happy with Fedora 9. I think most of the reviews you may have [...]
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