Archive for December, 2007

Barry, the Blackberry Sync Tool, Built for Fedora 8

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

While browsing the Internet for tools to make my Blackberry on Linux life easier. I bumped into a really well maintained project called Barry. Unfortunately, it does not have Fedora 8 binaries yet. So, I took the liberty of building them.
Here they are for download:

http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/barry-debuginfo-0.11-1.i386.rpm
http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/barry-gui-0.11-1.i386.rpm
http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/barry-opensync-0.11-1.i386.rpm
http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/barry-util-0.11-1.i386.rpm
http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/libbarry-0.11-1.i386.rpm
http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/libbarry-devel-0.11-1.i386.rpm

And the source RPM can be found here:

http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/srpm/barry-0.11-1.src.rpm

Hope this helps […]

Upgrading to Fedora 8 on a Dell Latitude D510

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

I expected my upgrade to Fedora 8 to be as flawless as my upgrade to Fedora 7. Oh. But, I was mildly disappointed. The upgrade itself was fine but there were a number of issues that you might encounter along the way too. Here are my notes that should help you in your upgrade or […]