The Other Fedora: Open Source Software Repository

May 14th, 2007 Fedora Core 6 ships with Firefox 1.5.x version. Firefox 2.0.x is currently in development repository of Fedora Core 6.

January 13th, 2007 Subversion is a free open source source code management system (SCM) like CVS, Perforce, ClearCase etc. In this simple 5 minutes guide you will know about some key commands to quickly get started with subversion from ground zero.

May 27th, 2007 RPM based systems like RedHat, Fedora or CentOS often have the system configured for automatic updates. This ensures that your software is always upto date.

September 21st, 2008 CodeWeaver's released a port of Google's Chrome browser (review) for Linux. CrossOver Chromium is a Mac and Linux port of the open source Chromium web browser.

January 6th, 2009 After the much-hyped Fedora 10, its time for Fedora 11 to take the stage. For the developers gung ho over the best title for their new release, contributions from all in Fedora community is awaited.

September 14th, 2009 CentOS or Community ENTerprise Operating System is often compared to Fedora in various Internet forums. CentOS is essentially a community supported free and open source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

October 21st, 2008 Fedora Core 6 an earlier do not have the latest version of rdiff-backup - version 1.2.2. The latest version of rdiff-backup is incompatible with the earlier versions.

March 8th, 2007 I have been evaluating both Xubuntu and Fedora Core along with Cent OS (Open Source version / fork of Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition). The key value and differences between these releases are: Xubuntu Xubuntu is definitely faster to use in general due to its light-weight Xfce desktop interface.

February 13th, 2009 Are you unappeased with your Ubuntu theme? At best what you do is open the appearance tab, re-scaling and choosing background colors for each pic. Blah! I say it's nothing but unproductive knob-twiddling.

April 1st, 2006 In a significant (read earth shattering for Java community worldwide) move Sun has announced their decision to open source Java technologies. The JCP will be disbanded in favor of open source bazaar model.

February 9th, 2006 The title is inspired by Dr. Richard Stallman's article - Free But Shackled - The Java Trap.

August 14th, 2007 I discovered a really cool way to use Subversion, my favorite version control system - automatic versioning / commit on save. Essentially with this simple tweak you can use subversioned files like you would use any ordinary files.

June 13th, 2007 GCJ 1.4.2 which was forcefully bundled with Fedora Core 6 (and has been updated from their repository to the latest available version) must not be used with any enterprise product, nay for any Java project at all. I know it is being used in OpenOffice, which I think is a serious mistake.

June 29th, 2006 Simon Phipps, chief open-source officer for Sun, said the Sun is "months" away from releasing its trademark Java programming language under an open-source license. He said Sun is ruminating over two major issues: how to keep Java compatible and ensure no particular company uses market forces as muscle for its own implementation, a move that would threaten Java's "write once, run anywhere" mantra.

June 15th, 2006 When you checkout a repository from subversion it creates a .svn directory (with subdirectories) for every directory (and subdirectory) checked out. The .svn directory contains information about the repository and files in the directory and allows you to run svn commands without having to authenticate yourself in future.