About three years ago I had posted a general guide on how to create RPM packages. According to that guide the RPM building environment was prepared using the handy utility rpmdev-setuptree (part of the rpmdevtools package in Fedora). This post describes the manual preparation of the RPM building environment.
Finding professional screencasts, which cover the installation of an operating system in a virtual machine from the beginning to the end and also give emphasis to all the details that make the users happy, is still difficult. The following is a very well-made 12-minute screencast about the installation of OpenSolaris in VirtualBox. The whole video…
I know it is at least criminally insane to use a whole 3D animation suite just for basic video editing, but, if everything else fails miserably, here are some notes and a screencast explaining the basics of using Blender for video editing. Well, not exactly what a n00b and hobbyist like me had in mind,…
This post incudes a list of ZFS related screencast links and documentation links that you might find useful.
You all probably know what a screencast is. In my opinion, screencasts can greatly complement HOWTO documents and I strongly believe that they will be even more popular in the upcoming years. Although it would be more useful if this post dealt with how to create a screencast using free open-source software, I feel it…
If all you need is a minimal OpenSolaris installation where you can play with the operating system and familiarize yourself with the Image Packaging System (IPS), the Service Management Facility (SMF), the basics of ZFS, networking and anything else you feel up to, you will probably find the ~270MB OpenSolaris OVF image in this post…
The Linux Foundation has announced the winner of the “We’re Linux” contest: “What does it mean to be free?” I watched this advertisement for the first time some days ago. At first, I had wondered myself: what is this advertisement trying to sell me? Well, hum… freedom? Now, that I have watched the advertisement a…
Since a long time ago I wanted to install Windows 7 and OpenSolaris on a physical partition and use them a bit, so to form an opinion about them. Although it is a bit early for a review, I decided to post a few thoughts about them.
When it comes to software for your CentOS installation, there is no such thing as a good yum configuration, but a configuration that can bring you the software you need, while, at the same time, causing the least possible trouble regarding core package upgrades. This small article goes into the details of configuring YUM using…
Having spent some days with CentOS on my desktop and having tried several 3rd party RPM repositories, I’ve finally decided to mix the official repos (base, updates, addons, extras) with RPMforge and also make use of the priorities yum plugin. Read on if you care about the details…