0 comments Android emulator allows you to test apps and websites from an Android user’s perspective, without the need for a physical Android device. The Emulator does not work “out of the box” in Fedora however, and only a version for 32-bit machines is provided.… Read the rest
1 comment Webgen does not work with new versions of Ruby. Using Webgen installed using ruby and rubygems from Fedora repos results in errors including “obsolete and deprecated Config”.
To get webgen to work, we will use RVM (Ruby Version Manager). This allows you install multiple versions of ruby side by side.… Read the rest
11 comments Last weekend on Software Freedom Day the Manchester FSFE Fellowship group, assisted by additional participants in Britain and Germany, spent the afternoon testing Free Software alternatives to Skype.
The 25 sets of results were recorded, and can be browsed, sorted, and searched on the news article edition of this post.… Read the rest
2 comments Plenty of resources explain how to install unrar support in Fedora, but what about when you need to create rar files, instead of merely extracting them?
Rar has licensing issues which is why it isn’t available in standard Fedora repositories. The package ‘Unrar’ is available in rpmfusion repositories, but to get rar compression support you can install one of these two non-Free packages:
rar-3.8.0-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm… Read the rest
0 comments Secure Share is a very interesting project that aims to replace existing social networks with a far, far more secure platform upon which developers can build new distributes apps and services. Think of it a bit like a new version of Bit Torrent with an easy API for sending messages, relationships, streams, and status updates, and a prototype desktop client for bringing these together in a social networking interface.… Read the rest
