It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything new, that however doesn’t mean we’re not very busy! Right now we’re working on some iPhone/iPod touch application and Google Android apps. More on that soon, now back to the Fedora 11 Beta announcement! Today, Fedora 11 Beta was released, which you can download and test for [...]

The new Fedora 10 Beta has been released, be sure to grab that release and start beta testing! I like the fact that they’ve come up with a beta contest, if you test the software and find 5 bugs *and* report them you can win free attention of a package maintainer on a problem personally [...]

The Fedora 10 Alpha was release today, offering testers an opportunity to test drive this release and get a ‘preview’ of its new features. While reviewing the release notes, I could not help but notice the mentioning of a new Security audit tool called Sectool. Now this is something I really feel like trying! Unfortunately [...]

I’m a big fan of ‘new features’, often I run beta software just to try out all the new features and see how I can break these (believe me I can). In my roaming the Internet looking at the plans for Fedora 10 I noticed a very interesting feature: OpenChange

Some people might ask: “why didn’t you post about your upgrade experiences to Fedora 9 yet? You’ve been talking about the Alpha and the Beta, but besides that things are silent!”. Well that’s true, and has one very simple reason: I didn’t upgrade yet, until yesterday.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In most cases Sendmail is the default MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) for many systems (like with CentOS), it can however be hard to configure or maintain (although it has improved over the last years). I myself prefer to use postfix for various reasons. Postfix describes itself as “Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, [...]

I’m sure most of you are familier with CVS and Subversion (a compelling replacement for CVS), the latter being a version control system I’ve had some great experiences with. Both CVS and Subversion are Centralised SCM’s (Source Control Management), today I encountered Mercurial which is a Distributed SCM. To get our terms straight, let me [...]

I’m pretty sure all the other WordPress bloggers out there noticed the shiny bar in their WordPress admin panels, announcing the release of WordPress 2.3.2, about 18 days ago. If there is one thing I hate at the moment, it’s having to upgrade my blog while I’ve done custom modifications and copy all those files [...]

I’m sure you’ve heard about it, KDE 4.0 has been released! I can honestly say it looks damn sweet! Unfortunately I quickly learned that KDE 4.0 wouldn’t make it into Fedora 8, it will be made available in Fedora 9 which is scheduled for an April 2008 launch. If you’re adventurous like me and don’t [...]

As I promised yesterday, the RPM’s (i386) for PHP4 can now be downloaded for your convienence. You can find the SRPM along with the RPM’s. The SRPM was slightly updated since yesterday to fix a small glitch I encountered when trying to build a eAccelerator RPM for CentOS 5. NOTE: None of the RPM’s are [...]

As of CentOS 5 you’ll get PHP 5 rpm binaries, if for some reason your old applications aren’t PHP5 compliant yet, this might cause you some difficulties. Even though PHP4 has it’s EOL as of 31-12-2007, the needed security updates will be done until 2008-08-08. This in my opinion could be a reason to at [...]

At the office we use Pound as a reverse proxy for Microsoft Exchange 2007 (and previously Microsoft Exchange 2003). This has been working fine with Exchange 2003, but with Exchange 2007 we were having some challenges. Basicly when you would use Internet Explorer to log into OWA, you would most likely get a 500 Internal [...]

So, you’ve got Fedora Core 8 installed, it all looks pretty sweet and you start browsing the internet. You quickly notice that there are quite a few things that don’t work out of the box, like for instance Flash or Java. A shame you think, let’s play some MP3′s then. You click an MP3 and [...]

It’s that time of the year again, a new version of Fedora Core has been released . I’m dedicating my 20Mbit line now, to get that baby so I can install it later on. While I’m waiting on that, I might as well share some of my first glance thoughts. I must say that it [...]