It’s time for Fedora 17 Beta
Yes its that time again where I road test a Beta Release of Fedora!
First I want to talk about the codename “Beefy Miracle” and I must say I didn’t like the name at first. But now it has kind of grown on me a bit. It may be because of what I found when testing it.
Lets start with my review!
The Bootloader
I noticed straight away when booting that Grub now shows “Advanced Boot Options for Fedora” this is an awesome idea. It hides away recovery mode simply making grub appear clean and more user friendly.
Wallpaper
The Wallpaper is a perfect example of what fedora is supposed to be. Simple yet stunning!
Mount Points
I plugged my USB Drive into the laptop I’m testing on to get the screenshot. I noticed that my USB Drive was no longer mounted in ‘/media’ instead I found it in ‘/run/media/affix’ I think this is a good idea as the world slowly moved into the cloud. I think its a good idea as with tools like spice where fedora and other distributions can be run on thin clients each user can have its own mounted devices on the host.
The Simple Things
Right down to the Scroll Bars fedora has been designed with the user experience in mind.
Stability
Featuring Gnome-Shell version 3.4.1 fedora has become more stable since version 16. I noticed a massive performance boost on this laptop than when I was running F16. My trackpad also performs actions more smoothly than with any other distro I have tried on this laptop.
Release Ready!
I believe if F17 was released today as a file release it would be accepted. However there are a few niggling issues that will be corrected before the final release.
Give Fedora 17 a Chance and click here
Affix.ME Fedora EPEL Mirror
I decided to run a 100 megabit mirror of fedora EPEL. I will probably be running an rsync of the fedora-enchilada repos and do a full fedora mirror.
To use my mirror directly you can use http://mirror.affix.me/epel
I will be posting more soon stay tuned!
Anaconda UX Redesign in LXF!
I am sure everyone in the community will be proud of mizmo’s efforts on the anaconda UX redesign. Well while reading Linux Format Today I noticed she got a little publicity from Dr Brown. He goes on to agree with the Hub and Spoke model for the installer. Its a good easy read Well done mizmo 
Bash Lamp Setup
Hey guys and Happy New Year. My first post of 2012 is a little script I wrote that will automatically download, install and configure a LAMP server. It will do this from source so you will likely have a newer version than the one available in your package manager. › Continue reading
Recent Downtime
Hey Guys,
I have had some recent downtime as I was moving everything away from my old SOPA Loving provider godaddy. I also moved my server and got a major upgrade. thanks for being patient.
SOPA
Cloudprint and RHEL 6
Well recently I bought a new printer to find out it was incompatible with Linux. The Advent AWP 10 AIO Printer doesn’t work at all with CUPS on Linux however a mac driver existed. That was until I learned about google cloud print. It’s a service from google that allows you to print remotely.
Surely though someone has written a driver for it. After frantically searching I found one. There are source RPMS available but as always I , decided to build from source. I tested it on my RHEL 6 System however this should work in Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE and all flavors of Unix.
on RHEL you need the Development Tools and the cups-pk-helper and pycups › Continue reading
Bash Quick Reference in the App Store Today!
Well its now Official. Bash Quick Reference hit the App Store today worldwide with the release of iOS 5
This is the third app I have had accepted into the app store. However it is the first where I learned how UITableView worked.
I have priced this app at £0.69($0.99) simply because of the time I spent working on it. I hope you guys find it useful.
Any Questions and Feedback is received with great anticipation.
View in the App Store
The Death of a Visionary
1955 - 2011
Steve Jobs, Apple Visionary and founder passed away on Wednesday 5th October 2011 at 56 Years old. Those of us that use apple products know him for his revolutionary thinking and changes he made to the way we work. Even those of us that do not use apple products know that he made a difference. His contributions will never be forgotten.
Rest In Peace and Thank You Steve Jobs
1955 – 2011
wp_fedora Theme Updates
It has been a while since I release wp_fedora to the public. I have recently made a few changes (About Time!)
CHANGELOG
- Fixed a bug in CSS That prevented chrome from readng the site (Thanks William Searl for the report)
- Fixed a CSS Bug that caused some links to display incorrectly
- Updated the main Body font to the Ubuntu Web Font
- Updated some font styling.
Check out wp_fedora : https://github.com/Affix/wp_fedora
Taking the plunge!
Verne with Gnome 3.2
This post is exactly what it prommised. I have decided to take the plunge and install Fedora 16 Beta RC1 on my Desktop. (Before anyone starts on me I have the experience to run a beta on a production machine and have a backup O/S RHEL 6)
Here is a little take on what I have discovered about verne so far.
Better Performance
I have noticed that my system is performing alot better than it used to with Fedora 15 and Gnome Shell 3.0 I think this was due to some instabilitie in the gnome-shell itself and led me to turn to XFCE for a while. I do however miss the extensions I had for gnome-shell.
Gnome-Shelll Extensions
Currently the extensions in the Fedora 16 Repo’s are not working with gnome-shell 3.2. This is due to the way gnome 3.2 will be handling extensions through extensions.gnome.org
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