Posted in haskell, linux on August 12th, 2009 3 Comments »
I spent a little time earlier today clarifying the Fedora project’s support for the Haskell Platform. You can read the details here; the summary is that we’re currently four packages short of complete support for the current release of the Haskell Platform. You can install the whole lot with a single copy-and-paste to your command [...]
Posted in linux, open source on March 24th, 2008 3 Comments »
I’ve been following Ian Lance Taylor’s updates on the status of gold, the new binutils linker, for a while, so when he announced that he’d added it to the binutils tree, I decided to make a little time to try it out.
I have a fairly large C++ application handy, so I tried linking it on [...]
Posted in haskell, linux on November 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
Upgrading my laptop from F-7 to F-8 yesterday was painless, so I’ve been able to verify that the latest version of GHC works smoothly. I’ve pushed the built packages to the F-8 testing repository, and will bump them to release in about a week.
If you’re feeling impatient, you can download the final RPMs from the [...]
Posted in hardware, linux on June 20th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been running test releases of Fedora 7, and lately the final
release, for a number of months on my fairly new Lenovo Thinkpad X60.
Here’s a brief summary of my experiences.
I’ve been using Fedora since 0.92 (Taroon), and while I’ve generally
been happy with it, F7 is not exactly a model of stability or
sleekness. Here’s a [...]
Posted in haskell, linux on May 14th, 2007 No Comments »
With Jens Petersen’s blessing, I’ve packaged GHC 6.6.1 for Fedora
Extras. If you use FC6, it’s available via yum as of a few days
ago. It will be a part of Fedora 7 as soon as that comes out, too.
The upgrade to 6.6.1 necessitated a bump of the release number of
the Fedora Gtk2Hs package, too. [...]
Posted in linux on April 11th, 2007 2 Comments »
I recently bought a Thinkpad X60 that came with Windows preinstalled.
I never actually use Windows, but it’s convenient to have around for
the occasional BIOS update.
My Linux distribution of choice has long been
Fedora. Unfortunately, unlike other
modern Linux distros, Fedora doesn’t provide a simple graphical means
to shrink an NTFS partition in its installer.
Since the X60 doesn’t [...]
Posted in haskell, linux on January 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Since I’ve been away from the Haskell world for a long time, it’s been interesting to return and observe some surprises about the practical side of working with the language.
For me, an early gotcha has been the relative paucity of information on how to obtain and install third-party software packages. So here’s my little contribution, [...]
Posted in linux on January 4th, 2007 25 Comments »
One of the exciting things about upgrading to Fedora Core 6 is that the yum package manager now frequently hangs on me. This does not fill me with joy.
The most common way in which it falls over is by hanging hard after printing this message:
Parsing package install arguments
What it means to “hang hard” here is [...]
Posted in linux, python on December 22nd, 2006 20 Comments »
Since FC6 ships with Python 2.4, you’re a bit stuck if you want to play with the new features of Python 2.5. Here’s a quick and easy way to build and install a cleanly-packaged version of Python 2.5 for FC6.
First, you must ensure that you have a sufficient development environment available. Fortunately, you can do [...]
Posted in hardware, linux on December 21st, 2006 2 Comments »
In an earlier post, I briefly discussed the oprofile system profiler. I was going somewhere with that; here’s another step along the path.
Modern CPUs that use virtual memory have to be able to turn virtual addresses into physical addresses efficiently. While a userspace process operates on virtual addresses, accessing any part of the memory hierarchy [...]
