Just a small notice this time, I am a bit late, however the first Beta release of Fedora Core 9 was released!

Although I’ve already mentioned which features appeal the most to me in Fedora Core 9, I hadn’t noticed the changes being made to Anaconda. Frequent readers of this blog remember my initial problems with Anaconda, so I’m please to see some progress going on.

One of the most interesting features, to me, is the ability to resize ext2, ex3 and NTFS (!) partitions. The latter being the most interesting for people installing Fedora Core 9 alongside Windows (which I don’t ;-)).

Be sure to grab it and report any problems you find!

Update: Removed the core part, core and extras repositories were merged ever since Fedora 7. I hadn’t realized the effect that this had on the name yet.. *sigh*

It won’t be long until we can welcome Fedora Core 9 into our PC’s onto our hard disks. I’ve already written about the Fedora Core 9 Alpha release, where one could start testing with KDE 4 on Fedora.

Besides KDE 4 there are a lot more interesting things planned for Fedora Core 9. Let’s pinpoint a few interesting changes.
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I recently released PHP4 RPM’s for CentOS 5, claiming they worked fine alongside the stock PHP5 that comes with CentOS 5.

Okey, that wasn’t entirely true. I had forgotten about php-pear! If you install php (stock version) alongsides my RPM’s you would get some errors, this has been resolved

After a few days of playing around with my RPM’s, I’ve finally managed to have a php4-pear RPM to work fine alongside php delivered by CentOS. Below an example of my results:

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I’ve upgraded my previously mentioned version of wp-update. A simple bash script that only updates the files that were changed in the latest wordpress release.

The following bash script works with Wordpress 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 and upgrades it to the latest 2.3.3 version.

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In my earlier post regarding KDE 4.0 on Fedora Core, I said that I achieved running KDE4 by running an early release of Fedora Core 9 (rawhide). For the people interested, there is an official pre-release of Fedora Core 9 available!

I would definitely recommend people to grab it and give it a glimpse! Don’t forget to fill a bug report if you find anything!

As some of you visiting this blog have noticed, currently the RPM’s I made for PHP aren’t available in any yum repository, making you have to check our blog every time for updates. Although I’m quite happy to have you visiting our blog more often, things really should be easier

I’ll take you through the steps I took to setup the yum repository for labcoding.com; with my next PHP update I’ll repost the instructions on enabling this repository (as described below).

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I’ve been using Apache for quite some time, having many custom scripts that do chores for me. Recently I was asked to install Apache on a machine, a few yum installs and some editing of the Apache vhost files later I was all set.

Because the site being served by Apache started to grow I noticed that the log files got big, I had completely forgotten to have a script rotate the log files!

At the office we simply have a script that has been doing just that since Apache 1.x, this script also runs fine with Apache 2.x. Because I never use office related scripts anywhere outside the office, I decided to look around and encountered rotatelogs which is included with Apache 2.x.

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