You heard it kids, the new version of fedora is finally out after a long wait!

It looks to be pretty good but i’m not exactly a massive fan of Fedora so it won’t take much to make me think it’s a nice release .

I’ll be reviewing it as soon as I possibly can but at the moment, I’m a busy person.

See you the other side of the install (18 hours remaining on the download apparently :s – overloaded file servers = fun )

Stay safe,

Sam

Hooray for handroid!

I got the kernel booting today, an exciting moment (made especially easy by the previous linux porters to Hermes.)

Now for the hard work.

Back soon.

The Hermes android project awakes!

I will report back here soon, eg today, with more news once handriod.inthebinaryrefinery.co.uk wiki is set up.

/out

Haiku! Near alpha! Shock!

Sorry for the lack of real words, I’m just shocked. I think we just witnessed the ‘It works!’ moment for Haiku as it has become ‘usable’.

Exactly what ‘usable’ entails is another matter but the general gist is that it can be used as a real desktop (unlike KDE 4, as the quoted in the title points out).

I look forward to actually being able to install it, I think I’ll put it on a HDD when it hits beta, something were looking for within a year. and is actually looking possible!

The one annoyance is that it doesn’t support wifi, something I truly can’t be without as I’d be installing on my old laptop. But anyway I’m rambling… here’s the link to the most recent progress (the code drive).

Good luck to the Haiku team! Stability is key!

Sam

P.S

Also, I’ll be posting some stuff i’ve written on my Hermes soon, it’s just getting chance to upload it.

Too much change.

The problem with KDE 4 is that it is simply too different, but yet it doesn’t really do anything new that you couldn’t do with 3.5.x and superkaramba. This makes KDE 4 almost useless in that it’s a unvelopment; KDE has devolved into something that looks pretty but is entirely useless. It’s abit like Windows Aero in that it takes up processing power, slows down the user but looks pretty.

When I look at Gnome development however, I don’t see vast improvement, I don’t see new interesting features but I do see stability and ease/speed of use. This, if you ask me is a far better way of working. It also begs the question; are we close to the perfect UI?

That may sound hidiously sensationalist but actually, the ‘windows like’ UI that is now in use by almost every OS in the world has been chosen for a reason hasn’t it…

Anyway, more tommorow

Sam

The filesystem that has housed so many sources of Open Source projects, countless hours of work and whatever else we like to stick on our hard drives finally got it’s new version de-dev’d!

The Ext4Dev modules have been in the kernel awhile but have only just been changed to flat ‘ext4′. Apparently the stable version will be ready and merged into 2.6.29.

Hoorays for progress!

Features include…

• Absolutely huge capacity, one ‘exabyte’ (yes you guessed it – it’s 1024 petabytes) worth of data in a single volume.
• Quicker disk checking.
• No more 32,000 sub-folder limit hooray!

So hey… not that fantasticly exciting I know, but disc checking speed increase is always a welcome addition isn’t it.

Brings back memories of the non-CopyOnWrite days of ext2 doesn’t it?

Sam