Posted on 25/11/2004, 8:15 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Ubuntu, but the Fedora Core 3 vs Ubuntu Warty Warthog was filled with some FUD.
Red Hat Magazine really doesn’t get printed anymore, so you don’t get a copy of FC3 from there. What users are complaining of kernel panics? Media file problems are normal – Ubuntu can’t support MP3’s either. Networking woes? Fedora never claims to support anything more than ext2/ext3, it just so happens if the reviewer had a clue, he’d have realised that booting with linux xfs or linux reiserfs is what is used to get those options enabled. Besides which, Reiser and SELinux don’t play nice, so it really isn’t recommended.
Come to first booting, and the icon placements and nice desktop integration on Ubuntu. That’s not upstream GNOME (if Red Hat pulled something like this, goodness, the bad press). Fedora’s OpenOffice.org does not crash the system when you try to use the spell-checker – you installed all the languages so it takes time to read it in. Thats OpenOffice.org in general. Does junk mail filtering work in Ubuntu?
Surely the media support on Ubuntu and Fedora is the same. There is no MP3 support or other proprietary codecs – its all ogg and open stuff, damnit. I’d agree that the Synaptic integration on Ubuntu is good – we need that for YUM, hopefully FC4 will see system-config-packages and yum more integrated.
Urgh, why do I bother. If at all to jive up Fedora Marketing.
Posted on 15/11/2004, 11:08 pm, by Colin Charles, under
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Michael Tiemann is down in Melbourne, giving a talk tonight. Go see him (read about the interesting bloke at linuxquestions). Faye’s What’s New in Fedora Core 3 SE Linux is a nice read, especially since SELinux is a “big thing”, in active, targeted mode in Fedora Core 3 by default.
Posted on 8/11/2004, 11:18 am, by Colin Charles, under
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Fedora Core 3 is out. Go Heidelberg. Now, for a sample chapter from Fedora Core: Made Simple, go take a look at Installing Fedora. I’m told that the more screenshots the better for the user, so go buy your mom a copy of the Made Simple guide ;-)
Warning, its 2.3MB in size. Screen optimising just made it look bad, so its print optimised. Have fun, feedback via e-mail please at byte@aeon.com.my – no comments, thank the comment spammers for that.
Posted on 6/11/2004, 2:59 am, by Colin Charles, under
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Its Saturday night. FC3 is almost out. I’m sitting at home, and chatting with two others on #fedora-ppc, realising that we’re all in Australia, and are all at home on a Saturday night doing Fedora installs. This is sad. I’m young, I should be out hitting the clubs or something. On the bright side, we have more happy PPC users (jamieson, wmealing), because the rawhide tree seems to work.
So here’s the beef. Install Fedora, according to the guide. Make sure in /etc/yaboot.conf, you not only have a location, but there’s initrd= and if you want, sysmap= for initrd/sysmap. Run ybin. Probably getting the unable to load inital console bug. Easy fix. Harald’s udev doc has a section for Udev without initrd. Boot into rescue mode, and follow instructions. Reboot, have a happy PPC life. selinux=0 will get rid of avc error messages. I’ll update the guide soon, its already sitting here in Emacs RCS, I just need to spiff it up a bit.
Posted on 24/10/2004, 2:50 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Red Hat Partner Community announced; of some semi-interest is the Red Hat Developer Connection – but at USD$299, I’ll be giving that a pass. We definitely need the Fedora Partner Community program or something, to keep people happier.
Thursday was the Red Hat/Fedora SIG. Mike Barnes did a good job giving us an intro to re-building stuff on the Alpha platform… They used a RH7.x bootstrap, but FC2 is mostly there. Pity many didn’t show up for the talk – maybe it was the new location. But it definitely was interesting.
SpentWasted much time with Windows XP’s cock-up over some files that were encrypted, thanks to their Encrypting File System, for someone who has some work and Kodak moments on disk (and no backups). After Windows forces you to reinstall itself because of various issues, it takes along with it its keys when you do a format, and there is no other way to recover said files. Sharing it, using Knoppix to copy it, etc… all useless. Anyone know of any workarounds?
Couldn’t sleep much, that’s never a good sign. Brazillian F1 today, last race for Coulthard to drive a McLaren.. Sad, sad. Good one for Kimi, hopefully the synergy with Montoya goes on thru next year.
Posted on 20/10/2004, 1:16 am, by Colin Charles, under
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Rebuilt cho, with OS X 10.3.5, pulled down the cws_srx645_ooo113fix2 which is OOo 1.1.3 and started the build (after getting a sane build environment – which now includes XCode 1.5). Dead Code Stripping is a document worth reading… Pulling down SRC680_m57 now.
Updated the planet code on Planet MYOSS. And RMS was in Kuala Lumpur, and as always NSH has a good report. I like his analysis of Malaysian wastage – brings a grin to my face, to be honest.
