Fedora

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When I logged into this site yesterday to post I noticed the Fedora count down had dropped to just shy of a week. This morning that date got pushed back to 14 days. Checking the Fedora Release Schedule it looks like this is actually the second missed release date, the first being on May 11th, 2010.

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When I logged into this site yesterday to post I noticed the Fedora count down had dropped to just shy of a week. This morning that date got pushed back to 14 days. Checking the Fedora Release Schedule it looks like this is actually the second missed release date, the first being on May 11th, 2010.

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A few months back I switched from Ubuntu Breezy to Fedora Core 4 on my Compaq Armada E500 1GHz notebook because of the support for my Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS pcmcia sound card. I was a bit nervous about putting Fedora Core 5 on my system after having spent weeks, a bit at a time, getting things "just right." But after reading some of the benefits of Fedora Core 5, faster load times for Gnome Terminal, Xen, improved UI, I started getting the itch to install it.

If you use the KDE desktop you're probably using the wonderful Kmail mail user agent (MUA)/program. I love Kmail because of it's simplicty, and like my friend Marcel Gagne, I like my mail program to be separate from my other software. For various reasons I recently switched to Fedora Core 4 and I chose Gnome as my default desktop environment.

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The other day I spent the better part of 5 1/2 hours installing Windows XP, a few drivers (not all the ones I need), and updates, on a tower that was destined to become headless (i.e. I remote desktop into if from Linux). This evening I connected to the now headless box using a program called tsclient. tsclient is a graphical program that raps around various protocols like RDP, Remote Desktop Protocol.