Archive for the 'Bleeding edge' Category


Tracker UI demo

I did some hacking today, when should be studying… So I put together a simple GUI for Tracker, pimped it with Cairo and some gnome-vfs for mime type and icons. Not alot of work actually, but it’s sort of useful. I know, Tracker already has GUI tracker-search-tool but I just wanted to code something more […]

XGL guide updated

Just a quick note.
I updated my XGL guide, added how to add Xgl to your GDM session and fixed the commands so now you can safely copy/paste them to your terminal.

XGL install guide

I wrote a quick and dirty guide on how to install XGL on FedoraCore5 using NVIDIA graphics card.
The guide didn’t event work for me today, when I tried to test it out, because of some xgl xserver error I got from todays cvs, so don’t expect much folks. Think of it as a pointers to […]

Core 5 leak, 2days before official release

I think it all began today when someone forgot to lock the switch.ch mirror ftp acces.
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedor…-5-i386-DVD.iso
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedor…-x86_64-DVD.iso
It happens Now we got torrents to download.
http://betraktelse.org/ & http://wdgiles.myftp.org/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso.torrent
So it’s 2 days before official Fedora Core 5 release, most of the iso images are on mirrors waiting for monday morning.
Happy download.

Fedora Core 5 delayed until 20. March

Ha ha, you’ve got to be kidding me, but it’s true. Fedora Core 5 release will be delayed until 20. March, so that’s 5 more days. Why ? Here the answer from RedHat mailing list:
“Due to circumstances outside of our control, we’re going to be unable to
keep to the scheduled date of March 15th for […]

XGL live CD

Now anyone(with good graphic card: nvidia or ati) can experience the latest Novell’s XGL goodies, because Kororaa live Linux CD has been released. It’s based on Gentoo Linux, it has the latest Xorg 7, GNOME 2.12.3, 3D support for NVIDIA & ATI graphic cards on XGL.
Totem can play most video formats(xine-lib 1.1.1), Rhythmbox can play […]

Fedora Core 5 countdown: 9 days remaining

Yes yes it’s that time of the year again, Fedora is about to release another version of Fedora Core Linux, version 5. We at Redhat/Fedora camp like to get excited about new releases, this one is due March 15th.
I’m excited about new GNOME 2.14 which will be available as update later on, excited about all […]