This is for you Linux users… The Spherical Cow, AKA Fedora 18 wasn’t running too good today. It became constipated trying to do a normal software update from the X-Window GUI. It said there were 96 updates waiting and then would just hang. I tried several remedies and reboots but the cure was at the command line. It’s nice to not forget your “roots” so to speak. (That’s a deliberate pun…) I opened a terminal...
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Fedup With Fedora 18
Well, I finally got fedup. But it’s not what you think. Fedup is the update program for Fedora from version 17 to 18. I am fairly certain it means FEDora UPdate, FEDUP. I down loaded and installed the latest version on my computer. Fedup runs from the command line. I was in graphics mode so I opened a command window and used sudo to run the fedup program as the administrator. Full update instructions are...
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The new Fedora (Linux OS) comes out today. No chance it may get pushed back again. Release dates are always subject to review and this last one has already seen some push back, but I just read on the Fedora site release is a go! No problem with push backs though. The old Fedora 17 is running just fine. I chose Fedora flavored Linux as it is updated on a fairly rigorous (usually 6 month)...
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