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Posts Tagged ‘opensource’

Zypper clean-up

Posted in Work on 28 May 2010 | Comments?
Tags: linux, opensource, suse

So I was having this problem updating some Kerberos 5 patches in my SuSE test environment — apparently a patch RPM was broken. I tried fixing that by downloading them directly, not using sudo /usr/bin/zypper up but sudo /bin/rpm -Uvh krb5.patch.rpm instead. No dice. Since there was no yum clean equivalent in the Zypper version [...]

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 [...]

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). [...]

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 [...]

Multiple (Firefox) personalities

Posted in Play on 18 August 2009 | Comments?
Tags: firefox, mozilla, opensource, tips, web

Er… profiles, I mean. I use Firefox add-ons for the occasional web development tasks. (Too bad, not all my favorite extensions are available in the workplace’s “blessed” add-ons repository, but I can live with what’s in there.) Sometimes, though, having too many add-ons slows down the browsing experience, specially for times when you just need [...]