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Welcome to part three in the series about our upgrade of wumple.com to Fedora Core 6 from Fedora Core 2.  This upgrade was precipitated by the closing of the Fedora Legacy project and thus there is no hope of security updates for FC2. Part 3 features apcupsd UPS monitoring and yum and system updates.

Here is part two in the series about our upgrade of wumple.com to Fedora Core 6 from Fedora Core 2.  This upgrade was precipitated by the closing of the Fedora Legacy project and thus there is no hope of security updates for FC2. Part 2 features networking and SMART hard drive health monitoring via smartd.

I finally upgraded wumple.com to Fedora Core 6 from Fedora Core 2 since the Fedora Legacy project has closed and there is no hope of security updates for FC2. In case it helps others, here is part 1 (RAID array) of a multi-part series about the trials and tribulations an upgrade to Fedora Core 6…

I must admit I am somewhat worried about the recently released demo screenshots of ALP (ACCESS Linux Platform, the apparent successor to PalmOS) released by ACCESS, the company that bought PalmSource (the maker of PalmOS).

I’ve been playing with MisterHouse (a Linux home automation program) for a few days, but ran into a problem where my SmartHome Powerlinc USB X-10 controller was not fully supported: Dan Wilga has recently implemented a MisterHouse X10_Wish library that interfaced with the WiSH x10dev driver for receive but not send (meaning MisterHouse could send…

I upgraded to the recently released WordPress 1.5.1.2, so I built RPM packages for the new version.

I recently upgraded to the newly released WordPress 1.5, so I built RPM packages for the new version: RPM: wordpress-1.5-1.noarch.rpm SRPM: wordpress-1.5-1.src.rpm These RPM packages were built under Fedora Core 2 Linux. I have not tested them with other Linux distributions, so they may or may not work in those situations. I highly recommend you…

I built RPM packages for the latest version (04.05.18.00.0) of bbcp, a fast copy program that uses multiple TCP streams for speed. bbcp-04.05.18.00.0-1.i386.rpmbbcp-04.05.18.00.0-1.src.rpm  

I upgraded to WordPress 1.2.2 recently, so I built an RPM for the new version: RPM: wordpress-1.2.2-1.noarch.rpm SRPM: wordpress-1.2.2-1.src.rpm These RPMs were built under Fedora Core 2 Linux. I have not tested them with other Linux distributions, so they may or may not work in those situations. As is standard process, I recommend you back…