Joy at last! Chris Staite from the University of Birmingham has built a statically-linked version of Chromium, the open source version of Google’s Chrome browser, for Centos. You can get it from here. I was getting so sick of Firefox’s slowness and bloat, and Chromium is so much snappier, and more memory-efficient too. Although to [...]
Also tagged linuxThis took a fair bit of searching, and the answer’s non-obvious… Everybody (?) knows that in theory, if you have 64-bit Firefox on 64-bit Linux (x86_64), you can use nspluginwrapper to install 32-bit plugins, like the Flash Player. There’s some instructions here for example. However, those instructions are flawed in two regards.
Also tagged 64bit, firefox, flash, linux, redhatI just ran into a problem when trying to upgrade to the latest rpm-packaged version of Subversion on Centos 5 x86_64 — simple solution, but not obvious, so hopefully this will help someone. It goes like this, as root: $ yum update subversion [normal messages snipped] Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psvn.el from install of [...]
Also tagged 64bit, linux, redhat, subversion, svn
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