Archive for the ‘Fedora Core’ Category

Revelation of sorts… KCacheGrind to help your hacking

Ever tried hacking a program & getting lost in gazillions of function calls? Probably this would help… The runtime call graph. List of function calls, as they were called! Though KCacheGrind is a profiler, one might be interested in using it for its ability to generate a call graph as & when you are running [...]

Phew!

30 minutes of search on art.gnome.org & gnome-look.org can get you this…

PyDev for Eclipse

I just happened to stumble upon this pluign for Python Development for Eclipse. BTW this is by default there in FC5 & features some nice capabilities like code completition, auto-formatting, support for jython, smart indentation, etc. A full list is here at the PyDev website. & for the lazy ones, let the screenshots do the [...]

Want to chop some heads?

If yes, then head straight to this awesome tutorial written by Nicu Buculei. I’m gonna chop mine!

Something worth a look

I found this on slashdot about a day or two ago & its really worth spending 10 minutes from your precious time. Peter has done nice work in providing a non anti-windows view on “How to make Gnome desktop better”. All earlier articles i’ve read regarding desktop usability were directed against windows usability, while this [...]

Bonobo

While working on Evolution calendar, i realised that it was heavily relying on bonobo to access widgets in various functions. I knew bonobo was used by many gnome apps, but what excatly is it, i never tried knowing. Upon googling, i came across this link from developer.gnome.org which explains the concept behind bonobo & the [...]

Red Hat Gives up on Fedora Foundation

Slashdotted here More news coverage here The original message on Fedora Announce list I’m yet to go through this article… would make a nice read as why RH decided to go ahead with this. [update] Check the comments! [/update]

Screenshot of the month!

Something which was keeping me on my toes from past 1 month… Fedora Core 5 Related HowTo : HowTo upgrade from FC4 to FC5 using Yum

Enabling ATI Radeon Mobility M300 on Linux

Playing Q3 on a Dell Latitude – D610 is tough without your ATI card supporting your moves This is how to enable support for your ATI Radeon Mobility M300… [btw, just to mention, I'm using Dell Latitude - D610 notebook] 1) Go to ATI’s website & download the driver install system To be more generic, [...]

How to upgrade from FC4 to FC5 via yum?

Okay, this was something i wanted from the day i saw FC5 release news. Gnome 2.14… was dying to try it (outside vmware & outside a vnc session!) But had absolutely no clue on how to start this upgrade as yum upgrade on vanilla FC4 just updates the system to latest package versions in FC4 [...]