System Information

I noticed recently that FEDORA CORE 5 has been released. We’ve been running FEDORA CORE as the Linux-based operating system of this webserver for many years. I am looking forward to upgrading to FEDORA CORE 5, but it took some time to download and burn the 3 gigabyte DVD. I then had to verify the burn (which was fine), which also took some time.

Then, I launched the webserver from the DVD and answered a few questions. It then seemed to hang at the “Retrieving System Information” prompt… I waited about 7 minutes before giving up and rebooting back into FEDORA CORE 4. I just don’t have time to worry about it now, and it’s running well as it is. Once my show is over, I’ll work on upgrading.

This evening, I upgraded from version 1.5.2 to version 2.0 of the software running this site, WordPress. WordPress is a state-of-the-art symantic personal publishing platform that is extremely lean, well-crafted, and very extendible with plugins.

The upgrade went very smoothly, however, if you spot anything strange, please let me know so I can fix it.

Congratulations to Matt and the development team for releasing 2.0.

LONG LIVE WORDPRESS!

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Thanks to site visitor Robby for pointing out a simple fix that improved the left-side menu presentation!

I recently upgraded the server’s OS from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4 and applied all the required patches and upgrades.

As with most of Red Hat/Fedora’s products, the upgrade went smoothly and we were back up and running in short order.

On November 1 2005, I performed a comprehensive backup of the site to DVD. The site was offline for about 60 minutes while the backup was double-verified.

On November 2 2005, I upgraded the server’s OS from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4 and have fully patched the server.