Fedora Rules

Now you can let Novell hear your voice.

Bruce Perens has written an open letter to Novell’s CEO Ron Hovsepian.

I have made a new prerelease for yumex 1.9.0.
It is a total rewrite of Yum Extender from scratch.

More info here

Download it here
Screenshoots here

I have just made a build of development branch of Yum Extender (1.9.x).

It has been rewritten from scratch for better speed and to make it easier to use.

Read more here.

Here are some screenshoots:

The work on rewritting Yum Extender from scratch, is going very well, the code is now much more organized and it is easier to add new features.

Here are some screenshoots:

The new package view

The new package view with the ‘RPM Groups’ category

I just want to write a little about the future plans for Yum Extender.

Soon the current development release of yumex 1.1.x, will become a stable 1.2.x branch
There will not be added any new features, only bug fixes, translations etc.
1.1.x works only with Yum >= 3.0.

I have startet a new development branch called 1.9.x, in time it will become yumex 2.0.
The big step i version number is because of i am started to build it from scratch. The current 1.1.x code has become a little hard to maintain, so i have decided to start from scratch, it will the pieces of code there is usefull and written in the right way and copy it into new development branch.

Current status of yumex 1.9.x:
In the current 1.9.x version there will only be one package view with buttons to select if you want to see the ‘updates’,’availible’,’installed’ or ‘all’ packages.
The way the queue is working is changed, when you select a package it will automatic be added to the queue, no need for first select the package and then add it to the queue.
All yum action is done in background threads, so the GUI is always responsive.
I working on adding different kind of categories to the package view so the shown packages can be limited by different kind of categories (Ages, Repository, RPM groups, Sizes, Comps Categories).

It is nice to see that a Fedora Core 6 DVD is included with the next issue of Linux Magazine