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Wow, they updated Yum

By ⋅ June 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Just noticed this, rather then the usual:

Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...

when running a yum command whilst updates or whatever are runnin, you now get something like this:

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 10042.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 91 M RSS (103 MB VSZ)
Started: Thu Jun 18 23:02:16 2009 - 03:18 ago
State : Uninteruptable, pid: 10042

Way cooler, and it cycles through it over and over too. Nice.

Blu-Ray Drives cheaper than chips

By ⋅ January 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Its been a while since I looked at the cost of bluray drives and I’d always assumed they were still over the £100 mark, well it turns out you can get quite a few under the £100 mark and they all seem pretty good too.

Check out this one from Dabs for only £65!

Dabs LG Blu-ray/HD DVD drive

That drive seems to handle pretty much everything, CD, DVD, HD DVD, blu ray too.

I’ve just been looking into movie playback in Fedora 10 for Bluray, once I know if its easy enough I might be getting one of those drives, much cheaper then a PS3.

Fedora 10 Beta Preview

By ⋅ October 1, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve just downloaded and done a quick try out of Fedora 10. Its a Beta, so I wasn’t expecting much from it, however, for a Beta, it hangs together pretty well. I’m really looking forward to when it is released.

At the moment I’m running Fedora 8 and my upgrade path is going to be to Fedora 10.

You can download Fedora 10 for yourselves from these locations:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
List of Mirrors
Sources I used (UK based servers)
F10-Beta-i686-Live.iso
Fedora-10-Beta-i386-netinst.iso

Now the Live iso above is what I’ve used in the following videos to install from, but the netinstall iso is only 130MB so if you want to do an install and you have a fairly fast internet connection, I’d grab that and install from it.

See videos for preview of basic features in Fedora 10, sorry about the poor quality:







Fedora 10 Codename Announced

By ⋅ July 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Fedora Logo

Well, the names were submitted, the votes were counted and the winner has now been announced.

The possible contenders were:

* Cambridge
* Farnsworth
* Mississippi
* Nile
* Nitrate
* Saltpetre
* Terror
* Water
* Whiskey Run

Picked a favourite?

Good

You can now refer to Fedora 10 as…….

Cambridge

The other possbile candidates and their actual votes are below.

1. Cambridge 1547
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2. Nile 1503
3. Farnsworth 1435
4. Water 1408
5. Nitrate 1295
6. Whiskey Run 1281
7. Mississippi 1145
8. Saltpetre 1076
9. Terror 953

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