Its a Good Friday!
So it was nice to see Coastguard from Cybersource. Using IceWM, Knoppix, and Firefox for all its functionality, which involves Internet banking. FWIW, I bank with several banks (ING, ANZ, Commonwealth), and they all seem to work well on my Linux box running Firefox. Granted I have the Java plugin, I’ll have to try it at some stage with the Java integrated stuff in Fedora to see if it’ll just work.
Fedora/ppc
So, more things are entering Extras. Take a look at what Repoview has to show you. General slow-down is that packages with dependencies need to have their dependencies met, so that takes some manual massaging. We’re down to about 70 unbuilt packages because of dependencies, and about 93 failing builds on ppc (which is the reason we have unbuilt packages, mostly).
Package maintainers, take a look at the failed build-logs, fix your packages, and lets get ’em rebuilding (might be worthwhile to check and see if i386 fails as well first before beating your head).
For all Mac Mini fans, the Installing Debian GNU/Linux on the Mac Mini guide is a pretty good one. IIRC, sound still doesn’t work, so play OFPong instead :)
Stuff
Otherwise, while surfing the web, I noticed the Clemson Linux Initiative. Its got nice howto’s for laptop’s, and getting them to work with FC3. The Fedora HCL could definitely get a boost with links to interesting things like this, IMHO.
Now, to go get debauched for the weekend.
