Use the Alternatives System to switch to a custom Firefox release
From a user’s perspective, having to use an old beta version of Firefox in my primary desktop, while, at the same time, a final stable release of the browser has been released, is a bit annoying. But,...
View ArticleUpdated to Fedora 10
Yesterday night, at the moment rTorrent finished downloading the Fedora 10 ISO image, I rushed to burn it to a DVD and perform a clean installation of the operating system. No, I was not that excited...
View ArticleFedora Server Edition?
I don’t know if you have noticed it, but the Fedora download page includes the following: “Get Fedora 10 Desktop Edition Now“. Until Fedora 10, there was no “edition” statement. Fedora is a release...
View ArticleAlmost saying goodbye to innovation
Having used Fedora 10 for several days, I can say that this release is by far better than Fedora 9 in terms of desktop-related software quality. Of course, it is not bug-free and I still cannot...
View ArticleCentOS, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris
During the last week, I’ve installed several operating systems in Virtualbox or VMware in an attempt to discover the one that manages to balance between innovation and usability. What is funny is that...
View ArticleSticking with CentOS, RPMforge and yum-priorities for now
Having spent some days with CentOS on my desktop and having tried several 3rd party RPM repositories, I’ve finally decided to mix the official repos (base, updates, addons, extras) with RPMforge and...
View ArticleFedora Server vs CentOS
End of era for my Fedora based server after almost five years of service. The box now runs CentOS. I had this box at home and it was the only Fedora Server I ever maintained at home or elsewhere. I...
View ArticleHow to change the Timezone
Usually, the only time I make a change to the timezone setting of the operating system is during the installation time. But it may happen that a change to that setting is necessary. There are several...
View ArticleManually Prepare the RPM Building Environment
About three years ago I had posted a general guide on how to create RPM packages. According to that guide the RPM building environment was prepared using the handy utility rpmdev-setuptree (part of the...
View ArticleDesktop now uses Fedora 9
This is just a quick note that I have upgraded to Fedora 9. Generally, I am against upgrading an operating system at the time of a new release. The new OS version might be tagged as stable, but it is a...
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