Category Archives: Fedora 15

Are Linux Mint 11 and Fedora 15 crushing Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

An article arguing that Ubuntu may have lost its dominant position in the Linux world with the release of 11.04. In terms of blog traffic, I’ve noticed that my posts for 11.04, two months after Natty Narwhal’s release, still draw … Continue reading

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GNOME 3 is terrible

This is just an opinion, of course, and opinions may vary. But I’ve been using both Ubuntu 11.04′s Unity interface, and GNOME 3 with Fedora 15, and I have to say, I really, really don’t like GNOME 3. It breaks … Continue reading

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Run GNOME 3 On A Fedora 15 Virualbox 4.0.8 Virtual Machine

I am pleased to report that I got GNOME 3 in Fedora 15 in all of its splendors (and all of its defects) working properly in a Fedora 15 Virtualbox machine. However, it took a bit of tweaking. Here’s what … Continue reading

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Restore Missing Functions In GNOME 3

Ars has an excellent article detailing how to get back some of the missing functionality in GNOME 3. I think GNOME 3 is at least as good as Unity, but Unity’s design decisions generally make more sense. Like the GNOME … Continue reading

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Install Virtualbox Guest Additions On Fedora 15

I was going to write up a post on how to install the Virtualbox Guest Additions on a Fedora 15 machine, but the fedoraunity site already has an excellent walkthrough on how to do it. So I’ll just link to … Continue reading

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Install Fedora 15 In Virtualbox 4.0.8

This is slightly stupid, but I booted up a Fedora 15 ISO in Virtualbox 4.0.8 and couldn’t figure out how to install it. In previous versions of Fedora, there was always an icon to launch the installer program on the … Continue reading

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