December 2, 2025
I’ve written two articles previously, first was moving Gitea from FreeBSD to Linux and the second was a followup on accessing TrueNAS shares from a nested VM. The first was a few weeks ago, the second a few days. I took a long weekend and also took advantage of some Black …
November 29, 2025
In my previous article on moving Gitea from FreeBSD to Linux I ended the post noting that I needed to be able to share the host NAS filesystem with a virtual machine it was hosting. In my case, this is so that Gitea backups could be stored on the NAS external to the virtual …
February 3, 2013
Sorry, couldn’t resist. =) So normally I do my updates from one version of Fedora to the next using yum, in particular the Upgrading Fedora using yum guide. Usually it works pretty good. I didn’t really have much good experience with PreUpgrade the few times I tried …
February 2, 2013
I was thoroughly excited about Fedora 18 until I actually went to install it. I use Fedora 17 on a laptop and a desktop, but I also have copies in virtual machines that I use for testing – these virtual machines run in VMware Fusion on my Mac Pro. So never having used …
July 9, 2011
So I upgraded my Fedora 14 workstation to Fedora 15 last night using the yum update method (I’ve used preupgrade a few times and it’s worked on some and botched on others (mostly due to not enough space on /boot)). Since with other distros I’ve either used apt …
June 24, 2011
The TechMail from a few weeks ago was Chromium on Fedora Linux is closing in on Firefox which takes a look at using Spot’s Chromium for Fedora repo (thanks Spot!) to get Chromium running on Fedora. I have to admit that in the last month or so, I have thoroughly enjoyed …
June 2, 2010
This week’s TechMail is How to pre-upgrade Fedora 13 which shows how to use PreUpgrade (great tool). I used it to upgrade an F12 box and it worked flawlessly, despite the small /boot size. More information on how to use it is also on the Fedora wiki.
May 25, 2010
My main Fedora workstation is an HP desktop. It’s got a Core i7 quad CPU (Q9300), 8GB RAM, and dual boots Windows 7 and Fedora 13. Dear lazyweb, how can I make this system as quite on Fedora as it is on Windows? It’s absolutely silent when Win7 is running, but when …
February 20, 2010
This weeks’s techmail was Use Live USB Creator to install Fedora 12 from a USB stick which looks at using the Live USB Creator tool to build a bootable USB stick that can be used to run or install Fedora (or any other Live CD Linux distro). Very slick stuff. Worked great …
November 17, 2009
This week’s TechMail is Fedora 12 boasts enhanced performance, improved reporting, better graphics which is a great big gushy welcome to Constantine! The tip highlights some of my favourite new features in Fedora 12. I’ve been running the beta on my new HP machine for …
September 8, 2009
This week’s TechMail is Save time on downloads with delta RPMs in Fedora 11 which discusses the delta RPM feature in Fedora, how to set it up and use it, and why you would want to. Delta RPMs don’t make sense for everyone, but they will for quite a few people (i.e. …
August 11, 2009
This week’s TechMail is How to use Virtual Machine Manager on Fedora 11 which discusses my first foray into using Virtual Machine Manager and KVM. It’s no surprise that I’m a big virtualization fan, but this is the first time I’ve used something baked …
June 16, 2009
This week’s TechMail is Two hours (and counting) with an upgrade to Fedora 11, in which I describe my initial experience with the upgrade of my laptop from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. All-in-all, the upgrade was good and has worked great. I have no complaints, except for two …
April 14, 2009
This week’s TechMail is Dodge the challenges of a dual-head display setup with Fedora 10 which discusses setting up a dual-head display on my Lenovo T61 and how insanely easy it ended up being… once I knew what I was doing. Truth be told, I haven’t setup a …
March 3, 2009
This week’s TechMail is Set up RPM Fusion with Fedora to shore up multimedia support which looks at adding extra multimedia codecs to work with Fedora that don’t come “in the box”; things like MP3 support or watching protected DVDs on your system, or …
March 1, 2009
Last week’s TechMail was Set up a bluetooth keyboard and mouse in Fedora 10 which, as the title indicates, goes through setting up a bluetooth keyboard and mouse in F10. Much different from the last time I did it (much easier, much faster, a whole lot less frustration). In …
February 15, 2009
This week’s TechMail is A Mandriva user kicks around Fedora Core 10: How does it compare? (not the title I chose, but I guess my editor figured it needed my “flare”). Basically talks about my first impressions of using Fedora 10, considering I’ve more or …