Bitbee 1.0, Fedora Core 5 T1 Screenshot, Irssi for FC5T1, Other Changes
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Well, first off, I installed FC5T1 test under VMWare, and compiled the necessities. I managed to get Bitlbee 1.0 to compile under FC5, and built an RPM for it (also under FC4, Redhat 9, and RHEL4 as well). I wanted to test it, and ended up building an irssi RPM as well. The Bitlbee RPMs are located here. In the process of building, I took a screen shot and uploaded it to the screen gallery here. Also, I’ve been seriously hacking my httpd.conf file, and it has grown to around 1760 lines long. I’m redirecting a lot of old content, and I’ve migrated everything that used to be uberh4×0r to hudge, and a lot of cached links from the old server are now redirected properly on hudge. |
Fedora Core 4 / TBC at Alamo
It seems that Fedora Core 4 has gone gold, and is available if you know where to look. I just burned off a DVD iso, and plan on installing it this weekend as a staging server. I may end-up putting this at the involution.com colo for backup and redundancy once I figure everything out. Also on the agenda for this weekend, I’m going to see The Brothers Chap (creators of Homestar Runner) at the Alamo Draft House downtown on Saturday night with The Bart
Orion Multisystems
Orion Multisystems is now flogging some seriously smoking workstations running Fedora Core. Essentially these machines put 12 Transmeta to 96 Efficeon processors into a single desktop or deskside box. I’d love to have one these things at work. I think the ideal desktop solution for me right now is a high-end Mac with two 30-inch cinema displays and a Orion DS-96 system. Technically, I do have access to way more powerful machines than these, but unfortunately, I don’t have root on them.
XMMS 1.2.10 with mpg123 Support for Fedora Core 2
I added xmms 1.2.10 rpms with mpg123-support for Fedora Core 2 to my repository here:
Screen Shots
There’s a couple of Fedora Core 2 shots on my Screen Shots page. Enjoy.
Gnome NetStatus Applet for Fedora Core 2
I also managed to compile the Gnome NetStatus Applet for FC2. You can download it here:
Netspeed Applet for Fedora Core 2
I managed to compile the Netspeed Applet for FC2. You can download it here:
Obtaining the Fedora Core DVD ISO with ncftpget
Obtaining the Fedore Core 2 DVD ISO was a bit challenging. Even the latest wget with an alleged Gentoo patch which purports to fix the problem doesn’t seem to support downloading a 4.070 GB file to an ext3 partition. I have managed to get use a Bit Torrent, but the speed never seems to top 100KBps, and it absolutely pegs my upstream bandwidth when I’m downloading. Fortunately, ncftpget happily supports arbitrarily large files. I was able to successfully download the new DVD iso at the command-line with this:
ncftpget -v ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/core/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-DVD.iso
Amazingly, I downloaded the file over a period of 3 hours at 550 KBps over a DSL connection.
Fedora Core 1 - xmms 1.2.10 rpms
I managed to compile the xmms 1.2.10 rpms here:
