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Upgrade to Fedora 13 from Fedora 12

By carson | Published: May 27, 2010
After a week delay Fedora 13 has been released and it is time to upgrade of course. As always there are a decent number of features in this release but here are a few that stand out to me: boot.fedoraproject.org – A small bootable image to start the install from. IntelliJ IDEA – IntelliJ IDEA [...]
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Building HipHop PHP for Fedora 12 on 64 bit and 32 bit Systems

By carson | Published: February 23, 2010
Now that Facebook has finally released the source for HipHop PHP it is time to give it a spin. Of course it is still a little rough around the edges so I figured I would toss together a quick howto on getting it to build. The first thing to note is that they are only [...]
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Fedora 12 Bootable Root EBS on EC2

By carson | Published: February 16, 2010
I recently needed to create a clean EC2 AMI using a fairly new linux distro. It has been a while since I've needed to create a new AMI so I also wanted to move away from the older pre-packaged AMI and boot using EBS. After taking a look at what was currently available publicly I [...]
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Upgrade to Fedora 12 from Fedora 11

By carson | Published: November 18, 2009
Fedora 12 was just released and it is time to upgrade again of course. I almost thought this was going to be a version to yawn at but then I saw that there was going to be a new version of Fedora based on Moblin and it seemed exciting again. Of course that isn't the [...]
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Upgrading to Fedora 11 from Fedora 10

By carson | Published: June 12, 2009
It is time again to upgrade if you are using Fedora. Fedora 11 was released a few days ago and contains some nice enhancements. For people who can a complete re-install is probably best. One reason for that is the inclusion of ext4 in Fedora11. You won't get the benefit of ext4 unless you do [...]
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How to create a Fedora 7 Instance for EC2

By carson | Published: June 2, 2007
Now that Fedora 7 is out I figured it was time to update the EC2 instance howto. It is almost exactly the same as creating a FC6 instance so if you want to know the details you can reference that article.
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