SOAP::Lite for Fedora 7

If had the need to use SOAP::Lite 0.69 in Fedora 7 with the serialization bug fixed, so I decided to create this page. Feel free to use it...

Fedora 8 roadmap

I'm a Debian user and fan, but, unfortunately, I also have to deal a lot with Fedora. In January, when the roadmap of Fedora 7 came out, I did (I think) my first positive post about Fedora. It had some nice new things, and I really hoped that Fedora 7 would be better than FC6. I was wrong, and Fedora 7 quite sucks, being an unstable pain in the ass. Since Fedora 8 is planned to be out there already in November, what I really wanted to see on their roadmap and wanted features list was a lot of items for stabilization, bug hunting and stuff like that. Damn, an usable FC7, since, at the moment, FC7 won't run certain scenarios where FC6 works. Yet, instead of that, here's the expected Fedora 8 feature list, which I'll break up into several groups:

Nice, but shouldn't be a priority at all:

• Better startup
• Bigboard
• Fedora 8 Bookmarks
• RSyslog
• No more XFS
• XULRunner
  

Stuff I'm happy they are working on:

• Codec Buddy
• KDE 4
• Network Manager
• Pulse Audio
• Presto
• TeXLive 2007

Stuff they really need to focus on:

• Virtual Security
• Policy Kit
• Improved support for using Fedora on Laptops
  

Too bad that there are so few items in the last group of stuff comparing to the other too. Also, and by taking a look at the release date and the number of opened bugs, I think that they well could postpone the first group of items for Fedora 9, and concentrate on implementing well the other ones, as well as fixing up the Fedora 7 mess...

Updating from Fedora Core 5 to Fedora Core 6

I have a Fedora machine, not because I like Fedora (I don't), but because it is all setted up in a way that it would be too costly to migrate it to anything else. So, until I don't have the time to rebuild that system, I'm keeping with Fedora there... Last October I've updated it from FC4 to FC5: a really painful process. Now, since FC5 will be discontinued in less than a month, I decided to upgrade from FC5 to FC6, and was really surprised to see that the process was preety trivial:

# yum upgrade
# rpm -Uhv \
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm  \
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-notes-6-3.noarch.rpm
# cp fedora-core.repo.rpmnew fedora-core.repo
# cp fedora-extras.repo.rpmnew fedora-extras.repo
# cp fedora-updates.repo.rpmnew fedora-updates.repo
# yum remove gnocky bmp-mp3 mplayer
# yum -y update
# yum upgrade
# reboot

It all went well, but the fact that the fonts have changed (are bluried) at least on konsole (I'll check that later, for now I just enlarged the font).

Surprising!