Tag Archives: fedora

Hello, Planet!

Posted on March 10, 2009 by T. Fischer

Ahoy, Planet Fedora! I’m Trever Fischer, one of the newest Fedora Ambassadors.

Let’s start off by saying some mildly interesting things about me. Right now, I’m a computer science student at the University of Akron. I’ve been using Fedora since …

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My Elevator Pitch

Posted on October 20, 2008 by T. Fischer

Today, Planet Fedora had JonRob’s post that asks the question, “What is your elevator pitch for using free software?”

I’ve got three reasons, ranked in order of importance:

Absolute freedom to do what I want
Free software is high quality
Its free as …

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Happy Birthday, Fedora!

Posted on September 24, 2008 by T. Fischer

Today marks the fedora project’s 5th year of existence! Hooray!

I myself started using Fedora back when it was “Fedora Core”, just after FC3 came out. I had converted my windows 98 “server” machine (back then called Earth) to the …

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Upgrading your Glom databases

Posted on June 3, 2008 by T. Fischer

I use the Gnome application Glom to maintain a personal database of things. I use it instead of KDE’s Kexi because it is more complete and doesn’t crash nearly as much. I created my Glom database before I upgraded …

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TechCrunch wants a Logo War

Posted on February 21, 2008 by T. Fischer

TechCrunch has a post up about how the Data Portability group is using Fedora’s logo. TechCrunch agrees with Marc Canter who says, “Do NOT spend 0.001% of your mindshare – time – or energy – worrying about a LOGO! …

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Windows Vista BCD Recovery

Posted on January 31, 2008 by T. Fischer

Apparently I’m not all that up to speed on Windows Vista, specifically, its boot process. Then again, my only experience with it is occasionally fixing my girlfriend’s wireless connection to my university’s secure network (I add that NetworkManager for …

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My Experience with Ubuntu

Posted on December 3, 2007 by T. Fischer

I’ve been pretty much a die-hard Fedora user since back when Fedora was Fedora Core and the latest version was FC3. A while ago (Septemberish) I acquired a brand new Dell Vostro 1000 at no cost, which came with …

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Upgrading Fedora

Posted on August 15, 2007 by T. Fischer

Over the past two days I upgraded all my computers (except for my gateway machine) to Fedora 7. Surprisingly, I had very few problems. I started the upgrade process at the same time for all machines, and Neptune finished …

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Safari, the Red-Headed Stepchild of Browsers

Posted on June 19, 2007 by T. Fischer

With the recent release of Safari on Windows, I thought it’d be nice for me to reiterate my ideas about the Browser Wars. For my everyday browsing, I use Konqueror on Linux and Opera on Windows. Right now, there …

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Fedora is Fine

Posted on May 30, 2007 by T. Fischer

Three days ago I posted about how bad fedora was to me. Today I managed to discover that initng changed some things on me without telling me. Apparently, runlevels are now stored in /etc/initng/runlevels/ instead of just /etc/initng/*.runlevel. I …

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