Vista OS

Dean Takahashi writes in the San Jose Mercury News the complexity of the Microsoft Vista Project, the spiraling costs, the amount of labor it took to complete the project, and the product’s potential in a monopolized market. As much as 10,000 Microsoft employees have worked on the Vista project totaling to about $10 billion dollars [...]

Fedora Core 6

Redhat will release Fedora Core 6 today. The Fedora website is being hammered or maybe just being updated prior to its release at 2pm today. One of the early reviews of Fedora Core 6 was written by Michael Larabel at phoronix.com while Fedora News has this press release today. If you have been trying to [...]

Bucking the Popularity

I recently had the urge to replace my Linux desktop from Fedora to Ubuntu mostly because of the popularity of the Ubuntu desktop among Linux users. I gave Ubuntu a try using Ubuntu’s Live CD. After a few hours of playing around with the desktop, I’ve decided to stick with Fedora Core 5. It’s not [...]

Favorite Desktop Linux

What’s the most popular Linux desktop? It’s Ubuntu, according to a recent DesktopLinux.com survey conducted on 15,000 Linux desktop users. I happen to use the Fedora Redhat desktop which came in at 5th place at just 7%. So, why Ubuntu? Is it hype or a cult following? Ease of use and commitment to regular releases [...]

Fedora Core 5

The Redhat Development Team just released Fedora Core 5 code named Bordeaux. You can download the ISOs at the Fedora website. What’s new? Read the release article from from Fedoranews.org. It’s essentially updates for Gnome, KDE, OpenOffice, Mono, Yum, Apache and SELinux.

Restore Grub

You’ve decided to build a dual-boot system. You’ve just finished installing Windows XP after your Fedora Core 4 install. By this time, you are probably scratching your head as to what happened to the Linux partition after installing Windows XP. Is it gone?

Vncserver on Fedora Core 4

I’m posting this article to document the setup and configuration of vncserver on my Fedora Core 4 desktop. I’ve had a hard time finding the right documentation online. So, I’m making this document available to anyone who might be looking for help configuring the vncserver on the Fedora Core 4 and 5 platform. And now, [...]

Fixing Grub

I have a dual boot desktop with Windows XP and Fedora Core 4 running side by side. I recently re-installed Windows XP. Unfortunately, Windows XP wiped out the Grub configuration making the Fedora inaccessible and unbootable.