I noticed something a while ago when I was just about to steam some media content with VLC, a window pops up in my face about some update, and i said, ok, nothing special, updates come all the time. So i downloaded it and installed it as i always do, but then i got curious, does it run on 64-bit? The last version didn’t, so i checked the Mac process manager, and guess what, it’s 64-bit. FINALLY!!
When me and my family where on our way to the Canary Islands, i noticed something that made me really happy, the entertainment system on the airplane runs Linux!! I was watching Avatar and then suddenly the system rebooted, my first thought was that the system must probably run on some crappy windows version, but then i saw a happy little tux up in the left corner.
Here’s some pics i took:
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Oh, and solved some sudoku :)
When i came home from my vacation, i checked Wikipedia to see if the new iPhone OS 4.0 was released, and it was! So the first thing i did when i came home, i turned on my computer, plugged in my iPhone, and upgraded! It sure took a while, but it was worth it!
Although i can’t really agree with Apple that their multitasking solution really is multitasking, because the app is really just paused in the background, it’s not running like on a computer. As for all else, it’s great. I never really thought of the features they added, like threaded conversations in Mail or just the simple idea of folders.
What do think?
Fedora 13 is Red Hats development distribution and it’s here where you will find the latest code, the latest applications and the newest bugs. The distro is aimed towards a skilled Linux user and experts who want to play around. Theres allot of new features in Fedora 13. On the desktop side of things theres open 3d hardware acceleration, which is a long time awaited feature. By installing the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package and rebooting, you can play a wide verity of 3d-games on your Linux box without proprietary drivers. There is drivers available for Intel, ATI and Nvidia.
Printing has been simplified in Fedora 13. It’s aware when you plug in a printer and on it’s own downloads the drivers from the internet and installs them, allot like Microsoft driver search. Fedora claims it’s as easy as 1. Plug in the printer 2. Print. Support for color correction makes Fedora 13 attractive to illustrators and designers. Fedora 13 also comes with a entirely new way of installing over the network. The project is called boot.fedora.org. By booting from a miniature version of the core, you can chose how the computer should be booted. You can either install it or boot the entire operating system over the network.
If you are on your way to IPV6, then it’s Fedora 13 you are supposed to look at. Fedora 13 comes with support for the network filesystem nfsv4. Support for disk management is also more flexible than before, a new tool makes it easy to measure the performance between your volumes. The developer also has a few new features in Fedora 13. With Systemtap you can see what the core is doing as well as your applications.
Fedora 13 can be downloaded from: http://www.fedoraproject.org
Reference: IDG.se
What’s peppoj’s take on Linux? Well, i have to say that i don’t use Linux very much these days, but i used to be a full time Linux user. These days i use either Mac 10.6 for work and Windows XP for games and rarely boot up Linux, however i find the Linux community quite interesting and funny, like this quote here:
Microsoft gives you windows, Linux gives you the whole house.
There always seem to be a solution to any problem when working in Linux, just a quick google search and you have nearly one hundred forum posts about the problem and how to solve it, problem solving made easy indeed! I have thought of installing the latest Ubuntu Linux distro here on my Mac, I’ve heard that it can be done but i don’t want to break anything. But i still sometimes miss the look and feel of Ubuntu and the Linux command line.
What do you think?
