Using EPEL repositories in CentOS (and spinoffs alike)

If you are looking for various popular packages to install in CentOS (and for that matter also RHEL) but you do not find them in the default installed yum repositories, then you can add the Fedora EPEL repositories. For CentOS 5.3 you should be running something like this under root:

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

If you were wondering, EPEL stands for "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux" and, quoting their FAQ, this is a volunteer-based community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on packages that complement the Fedora-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its compatible spinoffs, such as CentOS and Scientific Linux.

Linus got his own blog...

Well, the man behind the Linux kernel (I was prepared to say "the Linux prima donna") has given up into blogging recently. You can find his blog here.

Personally I hope there will be more technical bits than kids and dogs pictures, but hey, it's his blog. Maybe this will render him (and all nerds alike) a bit more human ? :-)

Ubuntu Heyron: i810 beats intel driver ?

I'm not sure why, but ever since I upgraded my x86-64 installation to Ubuntu 8.04, all applications (but especially Firefox in particular) would spot a dramatical display slowdown, although CPU was not loaded.

Well, ever since switching from the default "intel" video driver to the "i810" driver, things have gone back to normal. This makes me think that the new/official "intel" driver is yet to become
what the old i810 one has still to offer...