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Archive for February 1st, 2006

No more Gentoo, Fedora Core 5!

02.01.2006 · Posted in Technology

I was fed up with the installation process of Gentoo and dropped it. It take too long and I hate it. Instead, I downloaded Fedora Core 5 (test 2) and installed it. This is what I like and here is why:

1. Installation is very nice, strait forward. This time it is modified to be even more comfortable.

a. Packages chooser is better. Applications are now organized in a way that you do not need to check huge lists of packages. It is very nice this time

b. Timezone chooser is fancier :)

c. Firewall and SELinux parts of install are moved to firstboot – less stuff installation :)

2. It is complete, I do not need to tweak a lot. Right after install I get a full functional desktop which is quite fast on my IBM ThinkPad 390X (450MHz, 192RAM) even when running KDE.

I don\’t know, maybe someone likes spending hours (or even days) on setting one bloody PC, but it is definitely not for me.

WordPress 2.0.1

02.01.2006 · Posted in Site News

I have updated the WP to 2.0.1. It suppose to fix 114 bugs. Although I didn\’t experience any problems with version 2 I decided to update anyway.

Nothing special or new that I can see here.