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Posts Tagged ‘fedora’

Taking Sugar on a Stick for a spin

Posted in Play on 31 March 2010 | Comments?
Tags: eee, fedora, linux, opensource, sugar

So I wanted to try out Sugar on a Stick, and there’s this Eee PC laying around. Grabbed the ISO image, and checked its integrity. Got Fedora’s liveusb-creator as well. Used Peng’s USB flash disk to “burn” the live ISO. Set the Eee PC to boot from the USB flash disk. Et voila! Sugar on [...]

Find duplicate files

Posted in Play on 6 January 2010 | 2 comments
Tags: bash, cli, fedora, linux, perl, scripting, tools

Update: As Pádraig Brady, fslint maintainer, pointed out: fslint/findup *is* a shell script. My 500-GB Seagate FreeAgent Desktop is almost filled to the brim (there’s *only* ~70GB free space left) so I need to find all duplicate files for clean-up. Fortunately, there are tools to do just this. I tried fslint, which is also available [...]

Upgrading to Fedora 12

Posted in Play on 30 November 2009 | Comments?
Tags: fedora, linux, opensource

…was pain-free. Well, almost. The prep work for Fedora’s latest version, Constantine, involved backing up important files and freeing up space. Like my move from Fedora 10 to 11, I used PreUpgrade (I’ didn’t want to do the yum upgrade route — it was too much work for something that should be trivial by now). [...]

Fix for Picasa 3 Linux login problem

Posted in Play on 21 September 2009 | 4 comments
Tags: fedora, google, linux, picasa, yum

(Update: Just realized that this isn’t a fix but a workaround. The fix would be for Google to bundle the working Wine binaries. (Then again, they most likely use the stable release, while Fedora uses the current development one. Oh well…)) Picasa 3 for Linux has this niggling* problem: you can’t log on to Picasa [...]

Chromium on Fedora

Posted in Play on 8 September 2009 | Comments?
Tags: chromium, fedora, firefox, google, opensource

I finally have Chromium on Fedora 11, thanks to Fedora developer, Tom “spot” Callaway‘s dev repo. In /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo: [chromium] name=Chromium Test Packages baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/$releasever/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 And it was just a matter of doing: yum install chromium I CAN HAZ CHROMIUM! My launcher specifies the following: –enable-plugins –enable-user-scripts –enable-extensions so this build now supports plugins (it [...]