2 Results for update

Fedora 10's D-Bus Update Causes Some Headaches and Procedural Discussions

Via Linux Weekly News comes the tale of Fedora 10's recent troubles with D-Bus. Fedora recently issued a security update for D-Bus which broke a number of applications on generic Fedora systems. One of the areas affected was PackageKit -- essentially leaving those accustomed to updating their systems with the Fedora GUI tools unable to do so in this manner.

The fix detailed by Paul Frields (issuing the command su -c 'yum update' in a terminal window) is straightforward, but it has the Fedora community talking about how to minimize and handle update hiccups in the future.



New Distro Releases on the Horizon

Spring is in the air and that can only mean one thing: several popular Linux distributions are getting ready for their next releases. Which distro improvements may be meaningful for you?

Let's take a look at the upcoming versions of Fedora, Ubuntu, and openSUSE to see what's new, what's improved, and what will be worth the wait.