Has anyone heard of Wipt?

“Wipt is a package management system similiar to Debian APT.” Wipt

I think that would be pretty cool stuff if Microsoft had a look at it. I haven’t tried it myself, but if it is similiar to apt-get then upgrading would be a lot simpler than double clicking your package file and clicking through endless dialog boxes . The last update was in 2006, so Iguess it has been dropped due to lack of support. I want to know if Microsoft has had a look at this though. Heh, users of apt-get would probably complain about it if Microsoft were to ever implement something like this. There are other projects similar to Wipt, such as Win-get, which looks like it has a lack of support as well… Eh, it is just a thought.

I think it would be beneficial to Windows, although installing in windows is easy enough. This would provide a more organized place to get certain programs… well free programs. There are useful free programs out there, just have to find them. Finding useful free software is harder to find for Windows than Linux or Mac.

Playstation 3 Fedora 11 maybe?

I have not tried yet, but it is most likely possible that Fedora 11 will install on Playstation 3. If you google or bing “Playstation 3 fedora 10″, you will see people who have confirmed fedora 10 on Playstation 3. If Fedora 10 is possible then so is Fedora 11. I do not think Fedora 11 is drastically different from Fedora 10 that it wouldn’t install.

Fedora 11 installed on external drive

I did not hesitate to swap out my main drive for an external drive and install fedora on it. After the install, I booted to Fedora and *yeahhh!!!*. Anyway, so I swapped back my main drive only to my dismay did I see that I could not boot into fedora through usb. I search and search until I found a solution. Guess what? The solution has to do with creating a new initrd for usb then editing the entry in grub.conf. Easy!

Fedora is pretty quick! 20 second boot? Eh, I say it still lives up to its name. The basics were very easy to setup. Fedora has come a long way and I see a better future for it.

Update: Due to to number of views I’ve been seeing. I guess there are other interested in doing this as well, so without futher ado.. the solution!

I booted into Fedora:

1. “su root” then type the password

2. type “cd /boot”

3. “mkinitrd –preload=usb-storage –preload=sdmod /boot/[initd_usb].img [initrd version]” (the first bracket is any name you want the second bracket is the version that you are trying to use so 2.6.9.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE worked for me but make sure you look at the initrd file first)

4. “cd /grub”

5. “gedit /grub.conf” (Use your favorite text editor with root permission)

6. after the initrd entry replace with “/[name you chose from step 3].img” <-{don’t think you need quotes} (You can copy the whole boot entry first and paste right under to be safe… change the title if you must then change the initrd entry)

7. Your done, but I would recommend backing up grub.conf first! Restart and connect the hd to usb and see if it works. I am not sure if I can upload my copy of the initrd_usb.img file for others to use, so I won’t upload.

Place be mindful about detecting any spelling mistakes and then telling me about it.

Fedora 11 is out!

I am downloading it now. I think I will reformat my drive install see if Fedora will install from that point. It maybe my MBR that is giving the anaconda installer a sense that the HD has GPT partition tables. Whatever it is, a full format should work.

20 second boot seems pretty ambitious and I will be surprised if it is true. I love to use Fedora as a server, so 20 seconds to boot after a reboot is pretty beneficial towards server uptime statistics.

Unix.., really?

Why would I install such a thing? Open source? So what. I have Windows and Mac. Fedora won’t install (GPT ERROR? I DON’T USE GPT PARTITION) and I refuse to install Ubuntu. What’s next? Unix? I guess. Windows and Mac are enough for me, but I feel as if I need Unix for Python and Perl. I know Windows has Python and Perl, but I rather not use them on Windows.

Microsoft dominates the PC market because of Windows’ relative ease of use, and popularity among consumers. How many consumers out there want to compile a program or even deal with a command line interface? Probably 20%, more or less. On Linux, I find myself typing commands more than Mac and Windows combined, regardless of what distro. Ubuntu is significantly less, but still. On Windows, the command line interface is practically non existent to me, I do not need to touch it to get anything working.

Linux is better off not being the most popular OS, since it is more suited for programmers than for casual users. Ubuntu took a step in making a Linux for the average person, but hasn’t gotten to the point where the CLI is nonexistent to the user. I think the better programmers will always be attracted to an operating system with less users and more flexibility. Even though there are people biased against Microsoft, but I think we can all agree that the CLI is practically non existent, which is one of the reasons why Windows is popular today. Unix is practically CLI to me even if it has a GUI.