I’m FedUp with Fedora!
Sorry, couldn’t resist. =) So normally I do my updates from one version of Fedora to the next using yum, in particular the Upgrading Fedora using yum guide. Usually it works pretty good. I didn’t really have much good experience with PreUpgrade the few times I tried it, so I wanted to give FedUp a(…)
Systemd article on wiki
In light of my recent (mis-)adventures with Fedora 18 installation in VMware Fusion and the need to figure out some systemd stuff, I’ve started writing a hints/tip sheet type entry on my wiki: Systemd. Far from complete yet, but I’m going to use it to document some hints, tricks, light-bulb-moments, and comparisons to SysV-init tools(…)
Upgrading and Installing Fedora 18 in VMware Fusion
I was thoroughly excited about Fedora 18 until I actually went to install it. I use Fedora 17 on a laptop and a desktop, but I also have copies in virtual machines that I use for testing — these virtual machines run in VMware Fusion on my Mac Pro. So never having used Fedora 18(…)
Fedora 15 upgrade
So I upgraded my Fedora 14 workstation to Fedora 15 last night using the yum update method (I’ve used preupgrade a few times and it’s worked on some and botched on others (mostly due to not enough space on /boot)). Since with other distros I’ve either used apt to do a dist-ugprade or the urpmi(…)
Chromium on Fedora Linux is closing in on Firefox
The TechMail from a few weeks ago was Chromium on Fedora Linux is closing in on Firefox which takes a look at using Spot’s Chromium for Fedora repo (thanks Spot!) to get Chromium running on Fedora. I have to admit that in the last month or so, I have thoroughly enjoyed running Chromium on Fedora(…)
Create a local Fedora mirror system and get blazing-fast updates
Last week’s techmail was Create a local Fedora mirror system and get blazing-fast updates which shows you how to use the Fedora mirror manager and associated tools to setup a local private (or public, if you wanted) mirror of Fedora. It’s really quite slick and since I was keeping a local copy of Fedora to(…)