POW: Bluetooth Improvements in Fedora 8
The POW is going to be the improvements made in the Bluetooth functionality in Fedora 8. I’m actually quite impressed with it as its been a bit of a challenge to keep my little mouse connected in the past.
Fedora 8 provides a new extended technology with its bluez-gnome package. In fact, the simplicity [...]
POW: Codec Buddy
This week’s Program of the Week is a bit ahead of its release. The package is Codec Buddy, and is currently slated for release in Fedora 8 tomorrow.
Codec Buddy, with a little help from the Fedora and Fluendo development teams has grown into something that could be great. I see Codec Buddy really [...]
Thoughts on the Fedora Upgrade – Part 1
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 I encountered while upgrading was the names of the packages. Mind you, this [...]
Upgraded! Fedora 8 (Werewolf) is installed!
And so the saga continues!
Transaction Summary
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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)
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
I did have a few problems, mostly things that were from [...]
Upgrading to werewolf
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 of course the current code freeze for this Thursday’s release, I think its [...]
