I’ve been a pretty lax blogger of late, well always, but nowadays I have a lot more interesting stuff to blog about and seemingly even less time to do it. The reason I’m breaking with tradition is that I spent last week at the Linux Plumbers Conference and Kristen Carlson Accardi, the conference organiser, requested… Continue reading LPC Rocked!
Category: Linux
Building programs and libraries from source on Fedora
Packages built from source use the prefix /usr/local by default which is not set up in the in the Fedora system and library paths. The majority of the documentation on the net seems to suggest Fedora users just pass –prefix=/usr to configure scripts but this can obviously cause problems in the long term (writing over… Continue reading Building programs and libraries from source on Fedora
Brown is the new black – Ubuntu Linux and I
I switched over from Fedora 9 Beta to Ubuntu Hardy beta last week. Mainly because everything I’ve ever wanted is packaged and easy to find for Ubuntu and the third party package repositories seem to play a lot nicer together. What about all the things I was looking forward to in Fedora 9? Turns out… Continue reading Brown is the new black – Ubuntu Linux and I