Its the time to upgrade…

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Its been a while since I posted anything, in fact, come to think of it this is probably the worst case of writers block that I have had in a while. Can’t seem to get down to writing anything at all and add to that a slightly exaggerated work schedule and it only gets worse. Well, now I have a good reason. Yesterday, saw the release of Fedora 9 (Sulphur). Normally, I don’t write about a distro until I have actually installed or upgraded, but this time I have a question as well. Should I stick with Fedora and go to 9 or should I be looking at Ubuntu. Some friends have been after me for a while to switch to Ubuntu. I have actually given it a test drive several times but somehow, I just seem to come back to Fedora. Most of the servers I run and manage are all running Centos, so this brings me to the question:

What distro should I run on my laptop?

a) Ubuntu - supposedly slick and everything just works. Plus now has Long term support.
b) Fedora - Familiar is favourite. Cutting edge, most innovative and still my favourite.
c) Centos - A step back, but stable and longer life-cycle.

Last year when I was at FOSS.IN I met with Rahul Sundaram who gave me the time tested “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” when I asked if I should upgrade from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8. I normally, like to wait for a while for the dust to settle down before I upgrade my main machine (my laptop) after all my livelihood depends on this machine. I can’t afford to spend hours trying to fix it to keep things running. I need it to be reasonably stable and extremely reliable.

Right now, I don’t have a choice, I do need to move on. Come June 13th and Fedora 7 will die. At least officially, and then there will be no more updates to it. Running a rapidly changing distro does have that disadvantage, but of course the changes in the new ones are always something to look forward too.

My gut (and its a large gut) feel is to stick with Fedora, just curious to know what others who may be in a similar state are doing?

Would love to get some comments and feedback. Plan is to change over this weekend. Fedora 9 looks tempting and I will be installing it to play around with. Yes, I did manage the download, despite all the chokes.

Cheers…Kishore
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Photo Anomalies

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With all good intentions one normally sets out to get the best images. But sometimes, you just forget or sometimes you just get it all wrong. Here are some of my images that went totally wrong in technical terms but I feel they still look kinda neat.

There are a [...]

Every upgrade deserves

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a blog post. Well, its that time again, WordPress just got much much better than it was and I decided to try the new release. Version 2.5 is extremely slick, at least in the back-end interface, unfortunately as viewers of this site, you don’t see what goes on behind the scenes. But if you are [...]

Hope you had a good holi…

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we certainly did.
Holi this year was quiet yet a lot of fun. We had several of Kabir’s friends turning up to mix their colours and plot their moves from our place. Our other visitors were Aunty, Kavi and Ira, Ravi, Candy and Udit, Navin, Tanushri, Aniket and Parth and then just us.
Food was done in [...]

Comment on my photos…

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if you’d like to! I just opened up comments on my Photo Gallery but only in the nature section. Would love to hear what you think of the photos, good, bad and ugly all comments are accepted. Comments are not moderated so I will only delete ones with profanity!
Been working on some different stuff the [...]

Update Day

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The last few weeks neither have gotten the time nor the inclination to update my PC and my wordpress, Not only that my notebook had an issue with the kernel that I use (tux-on-ice) which was conflicting with some other utilities and no matter what I did it would happily download all the updates but [...]

freed.in/2008 - Days One, Two, Three and Beyond

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Phew! it was tough, three days of intense talks and a very vibrant conclave. But it was fun. The freed.in organisers realised early enough that none of them would have time to write blogs or take photos, they just about managed to attend some talks and some parts of the conclave in between the organising, [...]

freed.in/2008 Day Zero

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Today was Day 0. Murphy our good friend (of Murphy’s Law fame) of course has to be there and we had our share of things going wrong, but if they didn’t what fun would an event be. At least for the volunteers part of the excitement comes for the stuff that happens backstage that nobody [...]

freed.in/2008 Schedule is out

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The schedule for freed.in/2008 is now out as in the plan for the conclave. Both are looking good. There are few minor changes that will happen to whats currently been put up but its only going to be minor. So you do want to go and check and plan accordingly.
I’ve been getting lost of mail [...]

freed.in/2008 Speaker List and Talk Abstracts released

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Five days to go for freed.in/2008, the excitement is building up. The talks list that has been put up so far seems great, and don’t forget the event will not only be about talks, it will also have the conclave!
Do check the speaker list and the talk abstracts out.
Sure promises to be a fun event. [...]