Fedora 9 includes the new package manager called Package Kit. It aims to be the package manager for your system, as it can install apts, slackware packages,rpms and many other file formats. I booted into it and noticed 2 things.
- The first, its incredibly slow – It took along time to download the updates i needed (Slower than downloading a normal…
I recently erased Fedora 9 from my hard drive, and installed Linux Mint. Im enjoying it so far but it didn’t come with a webserver. Heres a little tutorial on how to install XAMPP and get it up and running.
First of all, download XAMPP from sourceforge. As of writing this, the latest version is 1.6.7 so ill be referencing to that…
A little screencast i made just showing the linux dropbox client off.
Ive recorded another video tutorial, this time on Fedora 9, showing how you can make your own screencasts/video tutorials on linux. I tell you how to (sorta) get your microphone working and use the recordmydesktop program.
I was lucky enough to get chosen to be one of the 25 alpha testers for the linux dropbox client. We were given the choice to download a precomiled .deb, or the source code. Since i use Fedora, i opted for the source code. I attempted to compile it and then i came across some dependency issues.There were 2-3 packages…
I was getting some problems with the latest Ubuntu release (ext3 didn’t agree with ubuntu) so i decided to try another distro. Ive always been an apt-get man so i wanted to try something different. I downoloaded the Fedora 9 DVD and popped it in the drive.
I couldn’t use the GUI installer as there was some conflict with my monitor, so…

The 8th version of Ubuntu has now been released! Notable inclusions are..
- Linux Kernel 2.6.24
- Xorg 7.3 (Latest)
- GNOME 2.22
- Firefox 3 Beta 5
Its interesting to see that they’ve given some
of their older applications an overhaul. It now includes the Brasero CD burning utility which replaces Serpentine. They’ve also included the GTK front-end bit-torrent client Transmission and added a new VNC viewer called Vinagre. If…
Heres a tutorial on how to use the apt-get package management system in Debian and its derivitives such as Ubuntu and Knoppix. I will cover command line use of apt-get, the aptitude program and the Synaptic Package Manager. I wrote all of this myself, feel free to link to here but do not copy and paste it.
Debian uses apt-get package…