Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 19-08-2009
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The first development release for Fedora 12 (codenamed Constantine), Alpha 1, was supposed to be released this week. However, Red Hat has pushed back its release to next week Tuesday. While there is this seven-day delay, an Alpha 1 RC1 ISO spin is available and we decided to provide a very early and brief look at the Fedora 12 release.
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 13-08-2009
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When benchmarking development releases of Fedora in particular, they often end up being much slower than the final build and perform lower when compared against some of the other leading desktop distributions. As we have mentioned in previous articles, this is generally due to the debugging support enabled within the development builds of Fedora. To see just what the performance cost is, we have compared the Fedora 11 performance of the normal kernel against the kernel-debug package. Additionally, we also compared the performance when disabling SELinux and system auditing support.
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 08-08-2009
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"I find it impossible to believe that nobody in the Fedora-/Ubuntu-/Debian-/whatever-team has ever heard about this."
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 04-08-2009
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Sugar is the desktop environment that is used for the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) netbooks. It can also be installed on normal computers and even run off of a USB stick (which should have at least 1GB of size). This guide shows how you can install Sugar (the Strawberry release which is based on Fedora 11) on a USB stick.
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 29-07-2009
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The recent problem with prelink in Fedora Rawhide has led some to wonder about what advantages pre-linking actually brings—and whether those advantages outweigh the pain it can cause. Pre-linking can reduce application start up time—and save some memory as well—but there are some downsides; not least the possibility of an unbootable system as some Rawhide users encountered. The advantages are small enough, or hard enough to completely quantify, that it leads to questions about whether it is justified as the default for Fedora.
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 28-07-2009
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For a very long time now, I’ve been on the hunt for a distribution that really put a lot of effort into their KDE4 implementation. This has been a frustrating search, full of broken installations, incredibly slow performance, and so many visual artifacts they made my eyes explode. Since KDE 4.3 is nearing release, I had to pick up this quest in order to take a look at where 4.3 stands – and I found a home in the KDE version of Fedora 11. Read on for a look as to where KDE 4.3 currently stands.
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 22-07-2009
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This tutorial shows how you can install Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on a Fedora 11 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system. There are two ways of installing VirtualBox: from precompiled binaries that are available for some distributions and come under the PUEL license, and from the sources that are released under the GPL. This article will show how to set up VirtualBox 3.0 from the precompiled binaries.
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 13-07-2009
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A ten year old boy tries out Fedora Linux 11 Game spin, and likes it a lot, but not for the reasons you would expect.
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 11-07-2009
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From its initial creation out of what was once the Red Hat Linux distribution, Fedora has always been a fast moving distribution. As part of that fast moving approach, older releases don’t live all that long. The current policy is that releases will live only until one month after the N-2 (next two) release is out. Fedora 11 came out one month ago and now its time for Fedora 9 to go away. Only problem is – there are still 3 million users of Fedora 9.