Category Archives: Install

Thoughts on the Fedora Upgrade – Part 1

Posted on November 6, 2007 by herlo

So its been a whole two days since I upgraded to Werewolf. I love it! Most everything works out of the box (OOTB), wireless, bluetooth, even suspend/resume seem to be possible for the first time! But one of the oddities … Continue reading →

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Upgraded! Fedora 8 (Werewolf) is installed!

Posted on November 4, 2007 by herlo

And so the saga continues! Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 98 Package(s) Update 1092 Package(s) Remove 2 Package(s) Total download size: 1.3 G Is this ok [y/N]: y Resulted in: $ cat /etc/*release Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to werewolf

Posted on November 4, 2007 by herlo

Wish me luck. I’ve decided to take the plunge and upgrade to werewolf tonight. After reading Max Spevack’s post about how to upgrade to Fedora 8, this post from Will Woods stating that Rawhide is now ready to go and … Continue reading →

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POW: Yum installation by groups

Posted on October 31, 2007 by herlo

The second in the Program of the Week (POW) is here. Yum, the Yellowdog Updater Modifer, has a very interesting feature. One which you might find useful if you want to install an entire set of packages for say a … Continue reading →

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Firefox – My Addons/Extensions

Posted on October 20, 2007 by herlo

Thanks to the great “Extension List Dumper” extension, I’m happy to share with all of you my favorite extensions and a short little bit about each of them. Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.2/Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3 This is a great extension for … Continue reading →

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Fedora 8 Test 3 Released

Posted on October 10, 2007 by herlo

I’m loving this, 4 distros released within one month. Of course fedora is one of them! Fedora 8 Test 3 came out last Thursday, and I’ve been playing with it a little. It has a nice new look and feel, … Continue reading →

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Fedora 7 is Live!

Posted on May 31, 2007 by herlo

As of 8 AM MDT, Fedora 7 is available! There are several to choose from so choose wisely. This Fedora is one of the largest undertakings by the Fedora Project. Here are just a few things you’ll get with Fedora … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird 2.0 – Fedora Core 6

Posted on May 18, 2007 by herlo

So, I recently installed Thunderbird 2.0 on my Fedora Core 6 box. Here is what I did to get it working: # yum –enablerepo=development list thunderbird . . . snip . . . Available Packages thunderbird.i386 2.0.0.0-1.fc7 development # yum … Continue reading →

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Fedora 7 Test 2 Review and Remarks

Posted on March 28, 2007 by herlo

So pretty, so very pretty! At least the install is quite pretty. The new look and feel of Fedora 7 is definitely nice. I did, however notice a couple things that I didn’t like. It wasn’t immediately obvious how to … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Network Installation Server – Edgy Eft

Posted on October 31, 2006 by herlo

I’ve been working on installing the new Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) via a network installation method known as Netboot. This method can be tricky to get setup, however after a bit of persistence, the steps are actually pretty easy to … Continue reading →

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