Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Fedora-15”
Preupgrade Fedora 14 to Fedora 15
Just used preupgrade to go from Fedora 14 to 15. The entire process took about 3 hours. That’s not too shabby! In the old days of disc upgrades it had to go for days. Yum upgrade often had to work overnight. This one was much faster! After the upgrade, I had to turn off my dropbox repo - apparently they don’t have a Fedora 15 repo turned on yet. That allowed me to run yum distro-sync which bought me up to more or less at least what’s in Fedora 15. Otherwise you’re just upgrading your packages, but you may be missing some new ones that were added in. That’s what messed me up on the last upgrade. I still have to work on the rpmnew thing to get my config files as close to what they should be as possible and I have to figure out if the orphan packages I have installed are programs I should get rid of to make sure they don’t potentially cause problems in the future. KDE is working just as good as before. GDM looks very different - very similar to Gnome 3 and Gnome Shell. I’ll have to sneak in there later on in the week and try Gnome Shell out. Sound works and everything else works. (I only use an Ethernet connection so it’s not too complicated of a situation)
Goodbye Gnome 2!
Fedora 15, which is almost out, will have Gnome 3.0 as its default desktop and since it’s such a radical departure from the Gnome 2.x series, I thought I’d have a post that reminds us of how it used to be and what Gnome evolved to become. So here’s a two screen desktop:
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You probably need to click on the image so that it can be at a useful size. Gnome 2.32 consisted of two panels, one at top and one at the bottom. The one at the top housed menus that we’ll get to in a moment. Next to that are launchers. You could put launchers for all your most-used programs there. Because of that, I almost never went to the menus to launch a program. Over towards the right are panel applets. I have some for mounting and for showing the load on my computer. Then there’s the date/time where you can click on it and get a calendar. This area also had icons for certain types of programs like instant messengers. At the bottom you had the button to see the desktop, the list of open programs, the desktop switcher for the different virtual desktops, and the trash. Also notice that the programs have minimize, maximize and close buttons.
Ubuntu to the Rescue: A Tale of Broadcom Wifi Drivers, Prerelease Software, and a new Acer Aspire One Netbook
note: I wrote this on 17 April, a full week before it is published on the blog
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Nearly six years ago I bought my first laptop. I’d never seen the point of laptops over desktops - the value per dollar just isn’t there. But I was going to be traveling for work now and again and needed to be able to get in contact with the family while away. I got an old Acer that was on sale at best buy because it was the last one left. A year after buying that laptop, netbooks came out. I got my wife one of the first Asus EEE PCs because she was going on a work trip didn’t want to haul my heavy laptop around. So for the past few years we’ve traveled with both of those so I can use my laptop to watch my movies and she can use her netbook to watch hers. But I’m getting tired of that heavy laptop and now netbooks aren’t saddled with crippled versions of Linux and inferior hardware. So I got myself a new Acer Aspire One from Amazon. I’d seen the same one at Costco for $50 more (because it has double the battery life) and I’d wanted to get it for a while now. I’m going to be traveling to Chicago for a trip soon, and since my back has been giving me issues, I figured it was the time to go to a lighter laptop.