LazyWeb: What is that . doing there?
So tonight I was sitting there tonight getting ready to setup cobbler for another installation source, and I noticed something very odd. # ls -l /root total 88 -rw——-. 1 root root 1176 2008-11-23 17:22 anaconda-ks.cfg drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 2008-12-14 18:37 bin See the . ? Where you ask? Look closer! drwxr-xr-x. <– [...]
In: Conferences, Fedora, Filesystems, Guru, Releases, Tech · Tagged with: Fedora, Filesystems, linux, permissions, rawhide
Screencast: gnome-do v0.5 for Fedora 10
Back in July, I built gnome-do from scratch, identifying and helping get a few bugs worked out along the way. It was all in an effort to create a screencast on the future version of gnome-do for Fedora 10. Gnome-do appears to be based upon Quicksilver from Mac, but gnome-do is bound to surpass it [...]
In: Community, Fedora, Guru, Tech, screencast · Tagged with: f10, Fedora, gnome-do, rawhide, screencast
Fedora 9 Alpha Released
The latest and greatest Rawhide of Fedora has been put into an Alpha Release. I downloaded both the LiveCD and the DVD isos yesterday, which took 15+ hours. Just a reminder that Alpha means its not ready for your production box, so test it extensively and give feedback. When the Beta comes out in March, [...]
In: Fedora, Guru, Releases, Tech · Tagged with: alpha, Fedora, rawhide
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 is just [...]
In: Fedora, Install, Releases, Tech · Tagged with: f8, packages, rawhide, rpm, upgrade, werewolf, Yum
Upgraded! Fedora 8 (Werewolf) is installed!
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) Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) I did have a few problems, mostly things that were from [...]
In: Fedora, Install, News, Tech · Tagged with: f8, rawhide, upgrade, werewolf, yum update
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 time to [...]
