Fedora 33 will be using ZRAM as standard for swap, rather than a partition or swapfile on disk. I had no problem with this on a new F33 install (Odroid H2Plus) but after upgrading an existing Fedora 32 system it refused to initialise, and ‘/dev/zram0‘ did not exist. Research revealed that the documentation for much of this … Continue reading →
As part of my quest to test Linux on more obscure/historical hardware, and given that the theme was ‘HP’ after my perilous foray into the world of Linux on IA64, I have now acquired (eBay!) an ‘inexpensive’ PA-RISC system – HP 9000/785 C3700 – after upgrading from an older C3000, and adding some more up-to-date IO cards.. … Continue reading →
Just upgraded to VMware Workstation Pro 12.0.0 on the test system, and it compiles and loads/runs OK – with no patches needed – on Kernel 4.2-rc8.. More details are here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/workstation/12pro/workstation-12-release-notes.html Robert Gadsdon. August 25, 2015. … Continue reading →
Thanks to invaluable information from Mace Moneta, I have now been able to find the location of the (recent) release of Pidora 20 — now, for some reason, known as ‘Pidora 2014‘.. For details and links, see the comments section at the bottom of my previous article: http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1048 I started the upgrade (from Pidora 19), which took … Continue reading →
Hot on the heels of the release of kernel 3.6.1, comes 3.6.2! Upgraded this morning, and all is OK.. $ uname -a Linux rglinux 3.6.2 #1 SMP Sat Oct 13 10:50:22 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux … Continue reading →
After all the Pi excitement, back to (relative) normality.. I upgraded my main (x86_64) systems to Fedora 17, using YUM, as usual.. I have found that using the DVD is messy, and sometimes leaves the system in a ‘hybrid’ state, and then the DVD versions of many packages need to be updated, in any case! Compared to … Continue reading →