Post tagged: fedora

My back to school free software toolkit

The 2018 spring semester started last Wednesday. I think I've set up a pretty good free software toolkit for a successful year:

• Operating system: Fedora - latest software with stable releases
• Browser: Firefox - what else? :-) Note that our school and most California universities and colleges have adopted the AGPL licensed Canvas …

Upgrading to Fedora 23

I upgraded to Fedora 23 last night, and it went pretty smoothly.

I started with sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23, which started with a fun dowload of 2.5G of package upgrades (still better than Xcode!). I ran into the documented upgrade issue with the vagrant package, but the …

Switching to Fedora

I recently got a new ThinkPad T440S through work, and decided to install Fedora on it. This was a few weeks ago, so I started out with Fedora 20 (now running F21).

Overall, it's perfect. There are a few issues so far, but all of those seem to be hardware …