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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 is to use the precompiled binaries [...]

alias

alias is a built-in Linux command that defines shortcuts to longer (sets of) commands. The alias name is in fact a link to another command or command sequence. The Bash shell system wide aliases are set in /etc/bashrc, while users can define their own in ~/.bashrc. $ cat ~/.bashrc # .bashrc # Source global definitions [...]

Changing themes in Firefox

Recent Firefox versions (3.6.X) have introduced a new way to install themes. Called ‘personas’, themes can be accessed, previewed and installed at www.getpersonas.com. I’ve recorded a screencast to show you how easy it is to do that. You can find more info at mozillalabs.com/personas.

This is ridiculous

/dev/sda2              99M   57M   37M  61% /boot The above is the output of df -h on my Fedora 12 system. It shows the 100MB /boot partition that I’ve manually created during the installation and I think it should suffice for most of the users. Fedora doesn’t think the same. I had my first issues with the [...]