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 Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Finally a moment of peace to take a break and blog again.
A few weeks ago I took on the challenge to learn and install Linux. This was the best thing I've ever done for quite a while. I am ecstatic and very happy of what I have achieved over the past few weeks.
I managed to install Fedora Core 5 and downloaded tens of open source programs, compiled, and installed successfully. There were a few hicups on the way but managed to clear them all as I steamed along.

Of recent, I had an issue with my nautilus file manager failing to recognize the different file types and couldn't properly display the special Computer URI. After trolling the internet and googling my way through, I found the following article which helped fix the problem.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/AddingMIMETutor

I ran the following command "update-mime-database /usr/share/mime" and voila... all back to normal like magic.

Here's a list of programs I've downloaded and installed on my Linux for which I couldn't find the latest version package for Fedora Core 5:
  1. KeePassX 0.2.2
  2. Inkscape 0.43
  3. Blender
  4. GnuCash 2.0.0
  5. iPodLinux
  6. RockBox -> Installed on my 60GB IPOD Video
  7. Anjuta 2.0.2
  8. Glade 3
  9. monoDevelop 0.11
  10. MPlayer
  11. Xine
  12. Wine
  13. XCDRoast with DVD support
  14. xchm 1.9
  15. Istanbul Desktop Session Recorder 0.2.1
  16. g4l (Ghost4Linux)
There were plenty of libraries and dependencies for the packages above which I had to install separately. That's the first thing you learn about Linux which confused the hell out of me, the myriad packages, names, and versions.

Watch out for more.
8/23/2006 12:12:17 AM (AUS Eastern Standard Time, UTC+10:00)  #    Comments [0]   Linux  | 
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