I have submitted a package to the Fedora Extras repository. It is kanatest , a small program to practice reading Hiragana and Katakana characters. My next mission: show this little program to my classmates and try to make them switch to Linux :-P. This is a screenshot of it:

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I updated my Fedora to the latests updates available, that includes the kernel 2.6.11 (the previous installed was 2.6.10), this kind of changes can be scary sometimes. The following problems arised: The proprietary ATI driver do not build anymore. Apparently I located on the net...

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The second part of the configuration is writing. I needed the following packages installed: # yum install iiimf-gnome-im-switcher iiimf-le-canna iiimf-gtk iiimf-x Canna Started the services (this is only required if you do not want to reboot) # service iiim start # service canna...

Linux, Personal

In preparation for a lot of reading of Japanese web pages, I noticed that I was unable to see a lot of the characters needed, so I solved this installing the RPM package ttfonts-ja , with the command: yum install ttfonts-ja Screenshot before installing After installing

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After experiencing a lot of errors starting programs when a GNOME session is started (no background is shown and a lot of panel applets crashes) after doing a massive update of all the erratas for Fedora Core 3 , I solved them executing a full prelink of the system, with the following...

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