Monthly Archive:: March 2009

Fedora 11 coming closer

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Just a quick reminder: Fedora 11 Beta is due tomorrow, March 31th (one week later than the initial schedule). The feature list is almost 100% completed and I must say I’m impressed with it so far (I’m running Rawhide as I said before). Here’s two more screenshots:

Is Linux for you?

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I’m getting tired of seeing Linux-Windows comparison charts trying to convince Windows users that Linux is better. I’m sick of the numerous forum boards where new users keep posting the same stupid questions about the difference between *.exe and *.{sh/run/whatever} or NTFS and EXT3/4 file systems. Don’t you people

KDEtwitter

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This is a Twitter widget in KDE 4.2 which allows you to quickly: post messages directly from your desktop, without accessing your Twitter home page get notified when you receive updates

VMware arrow keys issues

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After a kernel update on Fedora 10 followed by a reboot and VMware reconfiguration (vmware-config.pl) the arrow keys inside the Guest OS got all messed up. None of them seemed to work anymore (neither did Home, End, Page Up, Page Down). This issue is quite old and VMware doesn’t