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Announcing the release of Fedora 15 (Lovelock)
Let the celebrations begin! Fedora 15 is officially here! Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 15! Join us and share the joy of Free software and [...]
HOWTO: Add a progress bar to Linux shell commands
How many times have you wished there was an easy way to view the progress of a gzip? a grep? redirected file read/writes? file copies? There are many situations where the addition of a simple progress bar would make the user experience 1 million times more bearable. Several years ago I had read about pipe viewer, or pv for short. This is truly the [...]
Fedora Rawhide Quickly Switching To Fedora 14
To eliminate having to freeze the bleeding-edge Fedora Rawhide repository once the next release of this free software Linux distribution enters its own alpha/feature freeze, a new development branch has been created so that Rawhide can immediately begin hosting packaged for the next Fedora release. In other words, beginning next week once the [...]
Man Takes Pi-Calculating Record From Supercomputer with Core i7 Desktop
There’s sort of a guilty pleasure in seeing the ‘masters of the universe’ knocked down a notch or two. So the news that the record for calculating Pi, set by the T2K Open Supercomputer, was not just broken but broken by a lowly Core i7 machine was warmly received. The feat was performed by Fabrice Bellard. He pieced together a system [...]
Fedora 12 Unites Latest Features and Usability Into Compelling Free Distribution
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 12, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 12 includes a robust feature set for desktop users, administrators, developers and open source enthusiasts alike. New [...]
