A few days ago, Red Hat developer Matthew Garrett blogged about the possibility that Linux could be locked out of the next generation of UEFI-enabled PCs. The technical press picked up the story and it spread like wildfire as if it were new news. The truth, however, is that this issue has been publicly known about in the Linux world since at least May 2011. For example, Jake Edge wrote a long and detailed article about this very issue in the June 15th issue of Linux Weekly News. Moreover, by their own admission, Red Hat actively participates in the UEFI
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A soft hyphen (U+00AD, ) is a type of hyphen used to specify a place in text where a hyphenated break is allowed without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text is re-flowed. Recently I had to deal with the questions of how to handle soft hyphens in a web-based application and quickly discovered that soft hyphens were not as simple a topic as I initially thought. Why should a web developer care one iota about soft hyphens? It is because the use of soft hyphens, while not yet universal, is becoming more common in languages It goes without saying that you should back up all essential data and files before attempting an upgrade. As superuser, drop down to runlevel 3 (init 3), i.e. non-GUI multiuser and execute the following commands in the order that they are shown below. # rpm –import https://fedoraproject.org/static/A82BA4B7.txt # yum -y update yum # yum clean all # yum -y –releasever=16 –disableplugin=presto distro-sync That is it. Reboot your system to ensure that the upgrade to Fedora 16 was successful. Note that your multiboat loader will still be Legacy GRUB and partitioning on the boot fdisk will still be MBR (Master Boot Coming from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux background, I recently had to install and configure an NFS server on a SUSE Linux 11.2 platform and was a bit surprised to find that the NFS server package was called nfs-kernel-server instead of just nfs-server or just nfs. Here are the steps to install and start up the NFS server: # yast2 -i nfs-kernel-server # or zypper install -y nfs-kernel-server # chkconfig –add nfsserver nfsserver 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off # /etc/init.d/nfsserver start Starting kernel based NFS server: idmapd mountd startd nfsd sm-notify done # service nfsservice status Checking for |
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