Archive for the ‘Fedora’ Category

NoMachine NX fails on Fedora 9 — here’s the solution

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

I am a heavy user of NoMachine NX. After my move to Fedora 9, it fails with an error of The connection with the remote server was shut down. Please check the state of your network connection. The solution is simple: install the package xorg-x11-fonts-misc. Here’s why that works:

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A short rant on Ubuntu and dpkg: fuck you, dpkg

Friday, January 4th, 2008

A long long time ago, in a gal… in an older computer, I had Fedora. RPM — the packaging system in Fedora — was amazing in several aspects. And the aspect that continually amazed me was the transactionality of software installs: a set of packages either gets installed, or it doesn’t. No halfway installs, no broken shit. Ever.

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Posted in Fedora, Linux, RPM, Ubuntu | 22 Comments »

Python packages failing to build (bdist_rpm) on Fedora 6?

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Then I’ve got the cure.

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Posted in Fedora, Python, Sucks!, Tips | 2 Comments »