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After a few days upheaval the Fedora team came around and changed the default policy in Fedora 12 back to requiring root privileges for installing packages again: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1241231/Fedora-12-Package-Installation-Policy-Tightened. In my opinion that is a good thing 
I don’t intend to install Fedora again though, as I’m very pleased with Ubuntu
When developing software I sometimes like to use Eclipse (I recently did some work involving Drools, and there is an excellent Eclipse workbench available for working with Drools). Instead of using a package manager (such as yum or apt) to install Eclipse, I prefer to use the release that is available from eclipse.org and install that in my home directory. That way I can install whatever plugins I want without risking issues when running updates in the package manager. Read the rest of this entry »
Over the past few years I have mainly ran Ubuntu as my Linux of choice on desktops and laptops. I have run 9.04 on my EEE PC 900 for some time, and I have always been very pleased with it. My desktop has ran Windows XP for ages though, and I have been wanting to install a Linux distro on it for some time. Read the rest of this entry »