Almost 1 Decade Old, Today Red Hat’s testing ground and all around number 2 Linux distribution Fedora, turns 9 today. A post by Fabian Affolter reveals on planet.fedora the historic day in which the project’s homepage was first registered. Fedora Core 1 The good ‘ol days… For many of our readers, the good ‘ol days came [...]
Fedora Project Manages Test Day With Google+
Those of us that follow +Fedora on Google Plus got a handy dandy invitation to Fedora 18 Test Day – Power Management. On October 11th, those who have accepted this invitation are invited to use there laptops and report their experiences back to the Fedora team directly in an attempt to socially corral bugs and [...]
Why Fedora 18 Will Be The Practical Choice For Vanilla Enthusiasts
You’ve come a long way, baby We all know about the rocky road that Gnome 3 has been travelling on since March of last year. Not since KDE 4.0 has a desktop environment been met with such community backlash and perceived exodus. I say “perceived” because that’s what it is. In the world of Linux, these things [...]
Fedora Irresponsibly Lowers Memory Requirement To 512MB
Fedora 17 now officially sets it’s memory requirement for installation to 512MB. Before Fedora 17, the requirements and been a similarly unrealistic 768MB. A standard desktop installation with Gnome 3 in tow will not be able to perform realistically for any user. Of course Fedora is good for a great many configurations, including different desktop [...]
Gimp 2.8: So Close, Yet So Far, Yet So Close
The long-awaited and much anticipated 2.8 release of GIMP is right around the corner! Wait, I know, you’ve heard this before. You were expecting it at the end of 2010, and then in 2011, and so on… Well, fear not because it’s really coming in less than 45 days! Want proof? Nothing could be [...]
Linux Faithful Author Writes Novel Entirely In Tweets
Be sure to read our interview with Piers Anthony, An Ogre And A Penguin. Also, be sure to follow Piers on Twitter and keep up with the story for yourselves. @PiersAnthony The Storyteller Notable science fiction and fantasy novelist Piers Anthony has now gone where no author has gone before. Twitter. Anthony, who is new to [...]
Gnome 2.x, I’ll Miss You.
Note: This article was originally published August 24th, 2011 at Muktware.com. Some of the content here no longer represents the way that I feel about Unity at present, and much of this can be taken with a grain of salt. Even still, I do miss Gnome 2.x even though it hasn’t fully disappeared yet. [...]
Piers Anthony: An Ogre and a Penguin
Piers Anthony is one of my favorite authors. I got the notion to interview him about a month ago. Since this is a technology site and Piers is a fiction novelist, the was only one way to make that possible. Exploit his use of Linux! Seriously though, Piers Anthony is an amazing writer. I have [...]