• RECENT

  • Unslinging a NSLU2 - a few comments for beginners
  • Fedora 8: select the repositories carefully
  • Fedora 7: Unresolveable requirement gecko-libs = 1.8.1.4 for epiphany
  • The Pigeon Detectives
  • Upgrading to Fedora 7: have your partitions labeled
  • Ricky did it again… (Kaiser Chiefs back in Amsterdam)
  • A ghost is real (when you listen to Husky Rescue)
  • Chris Cornell at his best
  • A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular
  • Slovakia updated on Google Maps

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When I started my trusty home PC to process some of my holiday photographs (that explains the silence on this web, I hope), Fedora 7 presented me with the list of 92 updates available for my system. I usually let the the pup (Package Updater) to update all packages and it usually works just fine. […]

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