gyum - Graphical User Interface for Yum
- Cool. This is one of the most frequent requests on yum-devel. Not sure who's behind this though because I don't remember seeing it discussed on the mailing list.
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on Thu 12/09/04
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bugzilla.redhat.com: Bug 127369
- Best bug report I've ever seen in my life.
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on Mon 12/06/04
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FC2 to FC3 upgrade with Yum
I finally got around to upgrading one of my non-critical FC2 desktop boxes to FC3 using yum and figured I'd dump my notes for Google. This covers the basic upgrade process.
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on Mon 12/06/04
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RE: fedora core 3 goals.
- Icon's fictitious #redhat IRC transcript relaying some of the issues surrounding the Fedora project from the community's POV. This is a few months old. I hope some of this has been cleared up.
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on Sat 12/04/04
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1.2 Terabyte Linux based media PC for $2000
- Sorry, no one is getting christmas presents from me this year.
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on Fri 12/03/04
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Fedora Core 3 Installation Notes
- Instructions for getting a FC3 installed and up to snuff.
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on Tue 11/23/04
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Red Hat Magazine
- I hope they keep this semi-technical. First issue looks pretty good.
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on Fri 11/19/04
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Java and Open Source
Mark Stone has an article on Newsforge entitled Java and open source where he breaks down the reasons businesses choose to embrace open source licenses, why Sun has not with Java, and why Java developers/vendors shouldn't care. Herewith some ramblings in support of Mark's business oriented look at OSS and an issue with his conclussion.
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on Mon 11/15/04
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Netcraft Results for beta.search.msn.com
- Maybe Balmer could include the fact that msn search runs on Linux in his next "Get The Facts" campaign.
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on Fri 11/12/04
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Build your own search engine with ht://Dig
- when you can't afford a google appliance...
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on Fri 11/12/04
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FC4 - Thoughts about the future.
- Seth Vital provides a list of things that need to happen for Fedora to be successful moving forward. Note that most of these have been problems that received little attention since Fedora 1.
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on Fri 10/29/04
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Ballmer: Comparing Windows with Linux and UNIX
- for some reason, anytime I'm reading ballmer, I always get that charlie-brown-on-the-phone-voice in my head. -- Wah wah.. Wah wah wah wah, wah wah...
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on Wed 10/27/04
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The Novell-Merkey Case (1998)
- Some guy is trying to buy the GPL off the Linux kernel by contacting individual copyright holders and offering them cash.
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on Fri 10/22/04
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Sam's Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours
- yeah whatever... I've been trying to learn emacs for years.
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on Tue 10/19/04
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Mac Takes Honors as Best Unix Desktop
- "KDE and GNOME have both gotten much better, but let's get real. They're not even in the same ballpark." -- Ouch. True though...
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on Thu 10/14/04
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A Tao of Regular Expressions
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on Wed 10/13/04
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Patent Theory
- Tim Bray with an objective look at something that's hard to talk about without using the words "bullshit" or "fukt" or "broken". We need more people like Tim. I tend to just bitch.
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on Wed 10/13/04
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SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west'
- Protect your intellectual property now or risk having your business sacked by open souce-touting bandits!
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on Wed 10/13/04
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Secure programmer: Prevent race conditions
- Some really good info on various methods of dealing with synchronization between processes on *NIX based systems.
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on Tue 10/12/04
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Linux cannot compete with Longhorn
- History of WinFS (hint: OFS)
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on Tue 10/05/04
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Ten Commands Every Linux Developer Should Know
- ctags/etags, strace, fuser, ps, time, nm, strings, od/xxd, file, objdump
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on Tue 10/05/04
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Synergy
- "share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems" via PhotoMatt.
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on Thu 09/23/04
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Red Hat Executives Blog: The Latest Joke from Redmond
- Red Hat Exec Michael Tieman's comments on Microsoft's weird move into the open source mindview.
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on Wed 09/22/04
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GNOME: We've overtaken Windows, bring on Apple
- Title is a bit misleading. GNOME feels they have reached Windows' level of functionality (I'd agree) and are now shooting to bring the featureset in line with Apple's OS X.
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on Thu 09/16/04
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