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New Fedup is here -- proceed with your Fedora 20 upgrades
(Click the image above for a larger version) After news that fedup 0.7 stood a good chance of not successfully upgrading you from Fedora 19 to 20, the project's developers swiftly pushed out fedup 0.8...
View ArticleTwitter: The open web
@odeissimple @LaurenGoode We shouldn't accept giving our content to profit-making, people-exploiting third-party sites so easily.— Steven Rosenberg (@passthejoe) December 21, 2013 @odeissimple...
View ArticleOnce you start blogging by writing plain text files, you can't go back
One of the biggest things that keeps me using a system like Ode for blogging is the freedom to write entries on my local machine using any text editor I wish. Those text files turn into blog entries,...
View ArticleProposal: How about a way to bring Twitter into Ode?
There's something about Twitter. It's so easy to tweet out links, to retweet, to have 140-character discussions ... But it's a bit harder to bring those conversations into your own blog in a more...
View ArticleTwitter: A bad day for Fedora users
At this moment, it looks like the AMD Catalyst driver will be disappearing from RPM Fusion. A bad day for #Fedora Linux users.— Steven Rosenberg (@passthejoe) December 24, 2013
View ArticleWill there really be no AMD Catalyst driver packaged by RPM Fusion for Fedora...
So I finally did my FedUp upgrade from Fedora 19 to 20, and one of the things hanging me up was the AMD Catalyst driver, the packages for which come from RPM Fusion. I should have looked into this...
View ArticleRead the excellent year-end proprietary AMD Catalyst and free Radeon driver...
I got a lot out of reading Michael Larabel's AMD Catalyst 2013 Linux Graphics Driver Year-In-Review on his Phoronix site. He's been following all of the Linux video drivers for years, and his...
View ArticleFix for PulseAudio trouble with Skype in Fedora 20 and other Linux...
I'm on the fence on this Skype fix for Linux distributions that use PulseAudio: If you are packaging Skype for your distribution, you need to change the Exec line in your Skype .desktop file as...
View ArticleWindows 8: Not my cup of pain
In the course of my day job, I use Windows 7 all day. I have really nice Lenovo desktop hardware with a nice AMD processor and lots of RAM. Windows 7 is fairly solid. It's not Linux, but when compared...
View ArticleWhen life hands you lemons, go back to Debian
Update on Jan. 16, 2014: Since I originally wrote this post, I succeeded in installing Catalyst with AMD's script in Fedora and buying myself a whole lot of time with that distribution. I also tried...
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