Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Tag: <span>PackageKit</span>

Double plus GOOG.

Last night I was able to get into the Google+ trial and one of the pieces of the setup was a Talk plugin that includes audio and video chat support. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it works great on Fedora 15. The PackageKit browser integration pulls in other …

Firmware goodness.

Richard, Yes indeed — I installed a fresh system with Fedora 11 just a month or two ago, and was totally surprised when PackageKit offered to go get firmware for my EchoAudio Layla24 PCI card. A couple clicks and a reboot later (so the kernel could load the appropriate stuff …