Monthly Archives: April 2008
My first RPM
As I said last week, I packaged the PHP MDB2 driver for PostgreSQL as an RPM for Fedora 8 and 9. Actually, this is my first self-made RPM ever and I’m quite happy with it. I learned my way trough … Continue reading
Bad power supplies
Sometimes, you may wonder why you should buy “expensive” hardware instead of el-cheapo-made-in-China stuff. Well, here is an example why the certifications and safety norms are important, and why you should pay a couple of € more to get a … Continue reading
Updated kernel for the Fedora 8 Alpha port
As announced by Jay Estabrook on the axp-list, there is a 2.6.24 kernel available for the Fedora 8 Alpha port (along with some other updates). You may not see these new files if you run a yum update because of … Continue reading
PHP, Pear MDB2 and PostgreSQL
Did you ever wonder how to write portable PHP code that works on MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL or SQLite? Then what you need is the Pear MDB2 package. It’s an abstraction layer between your PHP code and the database. It’s … Continue reading
Writing from the Alpha running Fedora 8
The screenshot says it all: the Fedora 8 port to the Alpha architecture works fine My old EV56 533MHz is happier than ever! The distribution was installed in 32 minutes, and around 50 updates were available via yum directly after … Continue reading
Fedora 9 Preview
The Fedora 9 Preview ISO’s are available! If you want to help Fedora, try it and report bugs…the final version should come out around mid-May as you can see on the schedule page. Remember that this build is only meant … Continue reading
Fedora 8 based distribution for the Alpha architecture
Today, there was good news on the Linux AXP mailing list: the Fedora 8-based Linux distribution is alive! This is time to reinstall my Alpha EV56 I guess, and playing with it is a lot of fun Note that Gnome … Continue reading
The Ubuntists, or why I chose Fedora
Today, there was an interesting but controversial article in my RSS feed: Fedora is the new Ubuntu. You should read it before you continue. This is the perfect moment for me to talk about why I chose to use Fedora … Continue reading
Linus Torvalds beaten by his wife!
Nah, this isn’t true, but it’s a catchy title don’t you think? There is just a fun phrase from Linus – I created Linux – Torvalds on RedHat’s Bugzilla page, precisely in the following post regarding a flash issue with … Continue reading
Rsync on a Linksys NAS200 NAS – Howto
After some demands regarding the rsync on NAS200 post, here is a quick howto on how to (huhu) create an rsync server with a Linksys NAS200…feel free to comment this post if something isn’t clear enough. I assume that you … Continue reading