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Posts Tagged Fedora

Upgraded Fedora Core 6 boxen to Fedora 8

I updated cassini.gathani.org to Fedora Core 8 from Fedora Core 6. It took the better half of the afternoon, thanks to yours truly having used some non-Fedora repositories.
Seems to be working now, with over 400 packages needing an update post installation. I notice a suspicious lag in rendering of GTK windows which clearly needs more [...]


FOSS.in Project Day 2 (Day 2)

Here is a report of FOSS.in Project Day 2 (day 1 report is available here):
Fedora: Freedom is a Feature
Rahul Sundaram spoke on the importance of Freedom (as in free speech). He gave a great example that insisting on Freedom drives innovation and interoperatibility, as in the case where SUN opened up the Java platform (as [...]


FOSS.in Day 1 (Project Day 1)

So, here is a report of foss.in Project Day 1. Colin, Aizatto and yours truly decided on attending the Mozilla Project Day. It started off by a short introduction by Mary Colvig from Mozilla Corporation.
Oh the places you’ll go! (things you can do with firefox extensions)
Myk Melez then started off Firefox extensions “Oh the places [...]


CouchDB 0.7.0 Fedora Core RPM

A Fedora Core 6 RPM is available for CouchDB-0.7.0:
http://ditesh.gathani.org/foss/couchdb/couchdb-0.7.0-1.rpm
and it’s spec file:
http://ditesh.gathani.org/foss/couchdb/couchdb.spec
I’ll start the review process and attempt to get a sponsor to get the RPM into Fedora. Feedback is much appreciated.