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RHEL 6.0-Beta: Replace That Glacial OpenJDK

Posted on May 5, 2010 by ehurst

Java on RHEL 6.0 is in dire need of assistance. I understand the issues of patent encumbrance, but for the average desktop user, it’s just not that important. If something better is available, we use it. The bundled OpenJDK on … Continue reading →

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RHEL 6.0-Beta Additional Multimedia Stuff

Posted on May 4, 2010 by ehurst

Note: The linked text instructions are sorely out of date and no longer work with the current release or RHEL 6, nor will it work with the Beta-2 release before it. I’m betting it will not work with either of … Continue reading →

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ATI and Nvidia Broken on RHEL 6

Posted on May 3, 2010 by ehurst

Update: In the comments below, Sean Kane provides a detailed explanation of how to get NVIDIA to work. Thank you very much, Sean! Second Update: For those of you using ATrpms Repo, the NVIDIA kernel modules can be installed directly, … Continue reading →

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RHEL 6.0 Beta Test Drive

Posted on May 2, 2010 by ehurst

Downloaded the DVD ISO from RedHat; even gave them my details representing Open for Business. I’ll be writing a longer report for that, but for now, just a few notes. Because I’m using a new-ish Radeon HD 4350 card on … Continue reading →

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First Brush with Lucid Lynx

Posted on April 30, 2010 by ehurst

This time, I chose the upgrade using the Update Manager. Naturally, due to the massive competition from thousands of others doing the same thing, it took five hours over my cable connection. That’s no big deal. The jump from 9.10 … Continue reading →

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Chrome Browser for Linux: Worth a Shot

Posted on April 28, 2010 by ehurst

All browsers stink. Some are simply able to choke you less. I am fully aware Google lies about compromising your privacy. Very early on I knew they were allied with the CIA and other clandestine agencies of the US government … Continue reading →

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Customer Is Not Always Right

Posted on April 24, 2010 by ehurst

The other half of my complaint — too much of Open Source is so developer centric it can quickly become anti-user — is sometimes the user wants the wrong thing. But it’s not so easy to untangle this mess, since … Continue reading →

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Computer Helps Ministry Returns

Posted on April 23, 2010 by ehurst

For the past decade or so I have offered as much computer help as I could for free. People did sometimes offer money, but it was never required. I did what I could because I really like people. In my … Continue reading →

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Seamonkey 2 on CentOS 5

Posted on March 31, 2010 by ehurst

I prefer Seamonkey to other web browsers. The generic tarball build offered for Linux on the Seamonkey website doesn’t work quite right on my machine. Currently I find no one building it for CentOS 5, and certainly not tracking the … Continue reading →

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CentOS: Fixing Ugly KDE Fonts

Posted on March 30, 2010 by ehurst

On CentOS/RHEL 5 in particular, I found the fonts in KDE 3 were ragged, and unresponsive to efforts to clean them up via recompiling Freetype2 libs with bytecode hinting turned on. After reading up on it a bit, I decided … Continue reading →

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