Benavent

I got a second hand laptop -just adquired- that fulfills my requirements

• New root prompt with red background, as I explained time ago, in my opinion it must be a default configuration in order to alert you who you’re. It’s specially useful when jump from one machine to another
• Install pure flash (yes I know it’s not FLOSS)
  1. rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
  2. rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
  3. yum check-update
  4. yum -y install flash-plugin AdobeReader_enu adobe-release-x86_64
• have a look on what daemons are running in the system in order to stop all unnecesary software (Type as a root systemctl and get familiar with the command line for the new Systemd)
• Make your comfortable cozy room, custom .basrch; I’m used to add this lines (plus the root prompt I told you before):
  1. set -o vi
  2. alias ll='ls -l'

I’m just to do more things, such a install my favourite browser, or few concrete software I’m devoted to, let that for a former post.

I’ve read a short and useful post from Jens Kuehnel, what to do after a Fedora upgrade and here I copy mentioning the author ’cause I’m convinced in a not too distant future I’ll be back on this advices.

1. yum distro-sync
2. package-cleanup –problems
3. package-cleanup –orphans
4. rpmconf -a -fvimdiff
5. rpmorphan

Thank you Jens!

I’ve acquired a little hardware box in order to be my next media center. For sure it’s going to be with Linux so I’ve look around to see what’s most mature software.

Almost everybody talks about this software:

• Xmbc: and I’ve seen running on a older Xbox … it’s simply amazing how fast it is: wow, but get mad if it doesn’t fit your needs
• Entertainer: a very Gnome solution, it looks fine and it is a full Linux plus this soft, but as far as I look for there’s no Fedora package for it and I fear it does not support every single codec as mplayer does it
• Elisa: by the moment one of my favourites since it has its own package for Fedora and its website and the whole project looks serious. It’s a plus being a package over my distro and the only but is that it has no TV view posibility on the other hand it has Flickr and Youtube plugins. Elisa has also good documentation.
• MythTV: it was the first recommended by a colleague but it has no support for directories -everything has to be on a single directory and also I’ve read it is not a good option for absolute beginners, and my media center has to be used by everybody at home.

I’ve try to install a simple Fedora on my hardware unsuccessfully, it seems that SATA support requires to change some option in the bios and besides I terrible fail trying to install a normal Fedora on a 64 bits hardware. So a little bit disappointed with myself I decided to wait ’till today 24 of November since it’s Fedora 10 launching… it looks nice

I’m going to wait until the weekend and have a try on Fedora 10 + Elisa + Sata emulation on bios… too many things on the same time. I hope all flows smoothly.

There’re easy things to do that I forget how to do it… For instance, I know that I may get a whole package list if I type: rpm -qa on my console screen. I know that I may get information about packages by typing
rpm -qi package_name
or by typing
yum info package_name

Since I’m experiencing some issues with my Eclipse installation I was comparing my version with recommended version from UOC, so I wanna know what software do I have installed that starts with eclipse* pattern… how can we do it? My old-fashioned way was to type
rpm -qa | grep eclipse
but there’s a more cool way, after a read a little bit from your manual page you may type something like
yum list installed eclipse*
So don’t forget to read man pages buddys.