30 Nov 2011
Posted by Quantum at 9:04 pm
During my upgrade from Fedora 15 to 16 several things broke, this is nothing new there were alot of major graphical components updated. Those issues were resolved in the week following the F16 release. What I had not expected to break was my network printing setup. In all the years I used Gentoo and upgraded [...]
30 Jun 2011
Posted by Quantum at 9:33 pm
The June 2011 has resulted in a few tasks backing up due to lack of time, resources, money etc. July will be the month for reorganising and getting back on track. The ToDo List: Get Rid of Recycling – This has been mounting up for over a month and I need to get rid of [...]
31 May 2011
Posted by Quantum at 11:28 pm
I took the plunge a few days ago and updated my machines to Fedora 15. The results have been mixed. My netbook and laptop were the first to be upgrades with Intel and Nvidia graphics respectively. Both upgraded fine and the Gnome 3 experience was ok, if a little strange. The problems started with my [...]
27 Feb 2011
Posted by Quantum at 11:55 am
I have been trying to get my Windows 7 (Pro) machine to connect to the CUPS printer on my Linux server. Whilst it used to work with Windows XP (Home) via IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) I was having no luck with Windows 7. One reason for the problem is my network security and firewalls. I [...]
06 Jan 2011
Posted by Quantum at 5:03 pm
It has been just over a month since I switched my Linux computers from Gentoo to Fedora. I am happy to report that all is going well. There have been a few issues but these are minor annoyances rather than major problems. The first problem was with my laptop. Having started using it with Fedora [...]
29 Nov 2010
Posted by Quantum at 8:53 pm
Over the past month I have been getting to grips with using Fedora 14 on my Laptop, Netbook and Desktop. The install replaces the previous Gentoo installs. My primary reason for switching distribution has been updates and time. To keep machines upto date with security patches Gentoo needed to recompile alot of packages in some [...]
28 Jul 2010
Posted by Quantum at 5:42 pm
Over the past month I was having a little trouble with Gentoo being difficult to maintain (too many things broke at the same time). I decided to try another distro and after some initial reading decided to try Fedora 13 (64bit). The install on my server went smoothly and I had a working machine in [...]
