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Saturday, October 9th, 2010Fedora Directions
Sunday, August 29th, 2010I am following the posts by Mairin , John and Alex who, correctly, question the direction of Fedora.
On my side, having been in the Suse, Debian, Gentoo, and Ubuntu side of things in last eight years, and having landed in Fedora (and staying there..) for the past four, I can say I am mostly happy with the distro. And yes, I run it as my primary desktop, and, yes again, I do not dual boot.
Regarding updates, I regard Fedora as a living on the edge distribution, where experimentations are done and new software is built. The new startup daemon being ported to Fedora 14 is a primary sample of this. And this is the advantage of Fedora over, say, Ubuntu. Ubuntu has the momentum, the buzz, a company beyond – all of this, but has also critical issues in upstream contribution (Gnome comes to mind), innovation, and also patching.
What can be done? Innovation is the holy grail of Fedora, and that should stay. Perhaps, instead of following a 6 months release cycle, we could take a more progressive approach – an 8 month release cycle? Some LTS releases? Open to suggestions.
Sadly, back to chromium
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010My day job does not involve Linux or programming, so I usually go around with a netbook as my primary machine.
Sadly, on F13 (which I installed gracefully since beta) Firefox has some performance issue, such as to force me to Chromium. So no weave anymore (weave is awesome) and some support less for the FLOSS world.
Hope Firefox catch back the performance crown, or anyway improve it to be good enough. In the meantime, Chromium is my platform.
Surfing
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Sometimes I get lost in the Web, just following links after link for new ideas, following a vague plan of action, multiplying tabs and relying on browser’s session restore capabilities and tab and bookmark syncing.
Tonight, after a full day of work, the gym, the dinner and some chatting with my lovely wife, I had one of this session on the sofa (thanks to netbook magic, the fully working Samsung NC10 with F12 and about 4hrs battery life..).
Anyway, I discovered some interesting projects. the first is a Django powered software forge (think sourceforge plus trac): basie is a MIT licensed software which is growing up from an academic world, and I shall admit to find it intriguing, and an interesting candidate to the trac position.
Next one is the Python Buildhaus Project, which goal is to setup a build system for Python packages against multiple architectures / OSes / python environments: infrastructure will be provided by the Snakebite project, which goal is to make available as many platforms as possible to test open source software builds.
Finally, a nice old blog entry regarding TDD AntiPatterns.
Lot of stuff. Will keep an eye on those (and perhaps contribute to basie, who knows…).
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Java 6 update 17 on Fedora 12
Friday, January 8th, 2010A nice reader asked about the spec file for update 17 of the Sun Java virtual machine. I already had updated the spec file, which you can find here and then follow my previous post.
Right now, I am using Chromium (open source version of Google Chrome) and I will fix the Java plugin for that.
I Promise!
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