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Upgrade VirtualBox on Fedora 14
VirtualBox received a major update a few weeks ago. The latest version 4.0 adds changes to the interface (now called VirtualBox Manager), new virtual hardware and a number of fixes which you can see in the changelog. Here’s how you can update your existing Vbox 3.x installation on Fedora
OOo3.3.0Beta
Oracle OpenOffice 3.3.0 Beta has been released. I gave it a try on my OpenSolaris machine. The installation is pretty basic — download the tarball from download.openoffice.org/all_beta.html, unpack it, then run the setup shell script to install. This new development version can co-exist with older OpenOffice instances on your
Firefox bookmarks
By default firefox saves your bookmarks to [code lang=”bash”]~/.mozilla/firefox/$PROFILE.default/bookmarkbackups[/code] You can see there a bunch of *.json files. [code lang=”bash”]ls ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/bookmarkbackups bookmarks-2010-07-07.json bookmarks-2010-07-29.json bookmarks-2010-08-03.json bookmarks-2010-08-05.json bookmarks-2010-08-06.json bookmarks-2010-08-10.json[/code] If you use more than one machine or you’ve recently changed / reinstalled your OS and you want to restore the old
Thunderbird 3.1.2 on Fedora
Thunderbird 3.1.2 has been released, adding fixes to improve stability and the user interface. I’m using Fedora 13 and the update isn’t available yet in the official repositories. I could use an unofficial repo, such as Remi, to get the updates more quickly, but the easiest way for me