Posted on 19/5/2004, 8:03 pm, by Colin Charles, under
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Argh! The spatial way hit lwn, and the comments have landed not on any list, but my inbox. nautilus-list is good for this sort of thing – not complaining, but possibly giving new ideas for improvement.
If there are any PC Gemilang users needing to upgrade to FC2 from FC1, there’s a guide: Upgrading your PC Gemilang (Fedora Core 1) to Fedora Core 2, which was a quick walk-thru of the experience. Others might find it useful if you performed ‘everything’ installs.
Evolution is giving me grief. When I right click a message, and select “Copy to Folder”, it comes up with a pop-up. Now, if I hit a key on the keyboard, say ‘t’, it should go to folders with names starting with a ‘t’, like Trash, or tech, or something. It seems to work on a clean FC2 install, but my upgraded FC1->FC2 e-mail box displays this. Is there a workaround?
Posted on 18/5/2004, 12:14 pm, by Colin Charles, under
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Don’t know why I’m jumping with joy, but Fedora Core 2 has been released – the release announcement are a must read (very funny, movie like sequence). I’ve got some shots of the FC1 to FC2 upgrade – they’re just anaconda snaps. Release notes too.
Otherwise, of some definite interest would be The Spatial Way, a little guide as to why spatial browsing is nice, with references, and stuff. Decided to do it now, rather than later because of the recent discussions on desktop-devel-list, plus the fact that FC2 is sporting this too… If there are comments on it, please send them my way, I’ll gladly improve it.
Elsewhere, I caught Troy. Bring’s new meaning light to Achilles’ Hell, and the Trojan Horse. Good watch.
Posted on 16/5/2004, 9:10 pm, by Colin Charles, under
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Some mirror must always open up early right, and our favourite /. writes stories in the stuff-to-snag department. I find it funny that we now even have a warez location dedicated to Fedora – I mean, warez of open source software.
In other news, I’m glad I went with WordPress, as Mark Pilgrim puts it very nicely in his Freedom 0 piece. Looks like now we’ll get sweet WordPress hacks, for instance, advogato posting.
Posted on 10/5/2004, 10:25 pm, by Colin Charles, under
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Novell is in a rapid Linux channels drive, where becoming a certified engineer is now a very official thing. The article does show some insight as to where they’re trying to make inroads, so much so a fairly reputable company, ByteCraft advances with Linux (basically, new carriers of Novell/SuSe solutions).
Everyone’s Linux, while a company based in India, is funded by MAVCAP, so there’s plenty of Malaysian interest there. Local company, Kitech has a support site even. Its definitely a Red Hat based distribution, probably RH8/9 styled.
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004: Malaysia is on as well. Some of the tracks look interesting, and from reports, it’s been very largely focused on Linux in the enterprise. IBM and Novell are the main contenders, a missing RH, even though focus is on enterprises.
When will a bunch of Malaysian students start an Ignalum? I’m all ears, so do use the comment form or write me some e-mail.
Posted on 8/5/2004, 2:37 am, by Colin Charles, under
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We had our second Red Hat/Fedora Meetup, here in Melbourne. This time it was spiced up by the fact that Richard Keech, the CTA at Red Hat, talked about the Red Hat Network Satellite, afterwhich we all went for some dinner at an expensive restaurant! Some interesting facts (no slides, so just read my notes):
- The largest amount of hosts for the RHN Satellite network would be around 10,000 hosts – a reference points to AOL, among others.
- The Red Hat Network itself has over a million hosts.
- The provisioning feature allows kickstart styled installs – this means that details can be kept on the satellite server. You’re also allowed to compare systems – say between the reference system and many unknown systems (aside: we’ve done this manually with SystemImager, for a golden child, and about 20 clients before). There is support for revision control too, so rolling back an entire system to a totally different state is allowed.
- It allows you to have your own rolled RPMs too, so you don’t only have to pull from RH. Oracle is embedded with this, in one 230MB RPM – yes, you need the database to work with the Satellite network.
- It only runs on RH AS 2.1, and not the newer releases. The product being: “RHN Management Satellite (3.2) for AS 2.1”.
Then there was a bit about the RH Desktop (RHD) solution. The fact that there’s licensed Agfa fonts, with one nearly equivalent to the MS font Arial, providing easy migration. Citrix client, Acrobat Reader, Flash, Real Media, IBM Java2/SDK as well. RHD is basically RHEL3 version 2.
All this got me thinking however. Since the API’s for this are published (mostly?), and it does make use of XMLRPC, and the system is defintely a nice looking one, why haven’t the bored folk out there looking for a project, write another RHN?
Update: There’s NRH-up2date which seems to already do basically this…
Posted on 7/5/2004, 1:03 pm, by Colin Charles, under
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You’re not hearing from anyone, because its bugzilla crunch time to make sure things are okay for FC2 (read: no blocker bugs). Some haven’t slept in a day, others are trawling bugzilla. I’m onto my fourth sixth installation today, to look at interesting bugs. One advantage is definitely that SELinux bugs aren’t a blocker any longer.
Go test kernel .353, and SCSI cd-writing. Watch fedora-test-list as more unravels itself.