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GoOSe Linux 6.0 Beta RC2 – Install and Live Images now available

herlo — Sat, 19 May 2012 20:27:07 +0000

The GoOSe team has been working very hard to get a 6.0 gold release out the door, we are very close.

Just released today is the second Release Candidate (Beta-RC2) for GoOSe 6.0 – You can find it here. In addition to the DVD, netinstall and CD installation images, you will now find a Live Desktop ISO.

Please help us by downloading and using the ISO images. File any bugs you find. It’s incredibly easy to become a contributor!! (If you are not a contributor yet, please email bugs to the goose-linux mailing list.)

Cheers,

herlo

Yum Update: 482:07

herlo — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:15:57 +0000

As I usually do while teaching class, I installed a Fedora 8 machine, and ran yum update. Today I noticed a strange amount of time for one particular download:

While this is hilarious, its shouldn’t happen. Any ideas? I know it didn’t take 28927 seconds (or about 1/3 of a day) to download that foomatic package.

Cheers,

Herlo

Thunderbird! You’re Annoying us all!

herlo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:38:43 +0000

Let me get this out first, I’m a avid fan of all things Mozilla. Even with the limitations they cause, the problems I’ve heard about Firefox and Thunderbird and all that Jazz, I’m still a big fan, current and future consumer of these wonderful applications.

BUT!

Why is it that a bug that has been logged for some time can go so long without being fixed. It sure seems like a very simple fix, but no, its still broken.

What, you ask, am I talking about? Well, its this bug on mozilla’s bugzilla that’s bugging me. While its not a major bug, its annoying and causes me heartache every time I look into my /tmp directory.

The problem is that as Thunderbird creates and moves data around when using a filter rule. It creates temporary files which is all fine and good, but the problem is the code is broken that removes the temporary files. My /tmp directory just fills and fills with these useless little files. It’s driving me insane. Every time I go into the directory to look at something, I’m bombarded with files that are named tmprules-##.dat , where the ## is a number.

Have a look into the directory:

$ ls /tmp/tmprules*.dat | wc -l 492

Why do we need to have 492 files in there? I don’t even have 492 messages I read each day. Come on Mozilla Foundation, take a few minutes and fix this annoying little bug that’s been hanging around since this March!

Cheers,

Herlo