Upgrade addendum: other packages of interest, configuring a Wacom Bamboo and a Logitech keyboard
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009My previous posts on doing Fedora upgrades cover most of the topic but I realized there were a few things I left out.
Installing additional applications
The first thing has to do with some useful applications that Mauriat Miranda doesn’t cover on his excellent Fedora installation guidelines.
xpdf – a simpler pdf viewer than acroread
gnumeric – My preferred [...]
F10 update bug: libmarble (kdeedu libs) conflicts on x86-64
Thursday, February 26th, 2009I did a yum update on my F10 x86-64 box at work today and discovered a minor bug in the packaging:
Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/lib64/libmarblewidget.so.4 conflicts between attempted installs of kdeedu-libs-4.1.2-2.fc10.x86_64 and kdeedu-marble-4.2.0-7.fc10.x86_64
A google for this found only one mention on a fedora forum, but it was in German. Fortunately the Google translation was clean enough [...]
Intel graphics, xrandr and GNOME: the case of the moving panel
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009If you’re using xrandr on a box with an Intel graphics chip in order to setup your dual displays then you might have noticed that GNOME moves its main panel to the monitor connected to the external VGA port. This happens because the Intel chip says that the external VGA is the primary port and [...]
Intel driver updates: 2.5.99.2 and 2.6.0, plus a little about DRI2, Compiz and GEM
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Judging from the most used searches and posts (thank you wordpress stats), interest in the Intel Xorg. driver is extremely high. While it’s easy to see that’s true on the X.org mailing list, looking at my own blog stats was the first time I realized other end users were having issues getting the driver up [...]
Linux Hardware Compatibility – getting started with off the shelf hardware.
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Finding off the shelf supported hardware is a tough task for Linux. The problem with such lists is that they often include hardware that you can no longer purchase from retails outlets. So it’s easier to get a list of what the outlets have available and then search the list rather than get the list [...]
Fedora 7 performance issues
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007I’ve upgraded pretty much all my systems, both at home and at work, to F7 now. I’m not completely pleased with it – the issues with the intel driver on my laptop are still a problem. But something that is more prevalent across all machines is general, perceived performance. I believe the perception of degraded [...]
Building JNI-based Java Applications under Linux and Cygwin
Friday, January 5th, 2007JNI is the Java Native Interface. It’s a mechanism in Java for calling C programs (perhaps other languages as well) that provide native functionality. By native I mean platform specific. This seems like heresy to Java purists, but in practice I can’t imagine making use of real cross platform capabilities without making use of platform [...]
Tux and the anti-Gnome sentiment
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005I’ve resigned from writing for Tux Magazine. I only wrote for them for the first 5 issues, but the anti-GNOME sentiment really started to bug me. While I have nothing against KDE, I just don’t use it much. I mean, after all, I was there when GTK+ was born – GIMP was [...]
Who said upgrading wouldn’t be hard?
Wednesday, November 17th, 2004I’ve hit a couple of snags in trying to do various types of upgrades. The first is related to upgrading, or rather porting, my GTK+ software from 1.2 to 2.x. The second is in upgrading my laptop at work from RH9 to Fedora.
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