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 the install. All my hardware works, you can see it on my smolt profile.
Alphas ROCK!
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 for testing purpose, not for a stable workstation.
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 and Java is buggy, so you are strongly encouraged to use KDE.
Read the full announcement on RedHat’s AXP mailing list.
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 instead of the universally loved Ubuntu distribution…first of all, I want it to be clear: I tested Ubuntu 7 and 8 beta and I’m not a sectarian.
The first point that made me chose Fedora is what’s perfectly described in the linked article: Canonical doesn’t contribute to the whole Linux ecosystem enough. On the other side, Fedora/RedHat is a HUGE contributor (as is Novell/SuSE by the way).
The second point has more to do with human feelings…particularly arrogance. Since some time, a small group of people using Ubuntu started hating/flaming other Linux users if they don’t use their beloved distribution, and that’s really sad. You can clearly see it on forums (French formus at least). You are not helping your distribution, nor Linux in general by behaving this way!
A much more recent event just happened yesterday during a PHP lesson at school; I’m using Fedora as my development environment, and the teacher is using Ubuntu. He constantly came to me, to tell me how superior Ubuntu was, and that I should switch…blablabla. This form of zealotry really annoys me…Hey! We are all Linux user, so let me chose!
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 YouTube: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439858
The quote is at the end:
Additional info: This is “high” priority because the wife will kill me if she doesn’t have her videos. And the adobe player won’t install on current rawhide due to some library issues.
Note: his wife is a six-time Finnish national Karate champion:)
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 know how to compile things under Linux and have all the necessary tools installed.
Yesterday, I tried to upgrade my Fedora 8 test installation to Fedora 9 Beta using yum. The upgrade worked fine, after a 1.1GB download I could reboot, but only with the old Fedora 8 kernel. Fedora 9’s 2.6.25 kernel segfaulted right after the “uncompressing linux” message by displaying some libc.so errors.
So I felt smart, and thought that I could probably resolve this problem by installing F9’s glibc and glibc-common packages with yum.
I tried to uninstall them with an rpm -e glibc glibc-common, but these package had a lot of dependencies. Well, not a big deal…rpm -e glibc glibc-common –nodeps (remember, I felt smart).
Fatal error! NEVER try this at home kids! My system was obviously dead, I couldn’t even reinstall the new versions as yum relies on these packages
A friend told me to look at the “Why do people laugh at creationists?” videos on YouTube. It’s amazing how these creationists (aka Intelligent Design) can be stupid by mixing religion and science. The scary thing about these people, is that they use pseudo-scientific explanations that uneducated people could easily believe, everyone with a little knowledge should fight them.
Ok, here is one video of the series…it’s depressing. Why is the media covering these people in the first place?
A guy pointed out a very funny and geeky website on the fedora-fr forum today: xkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.
Prepare yourself to lose the next 2h of your life on this website
Because the price of electricity rose by about 20% in my part of Switzerland during the last months, I was searching for a low-power backup solution for some servers. The Linksys NAS 200 seemed to be the perfect solution: a small box with an open source firmware based on a Linux 2.6.9 kernel. So I ordered one with 2 500GB SATA disks, planning to run it as an rsync server.