Caught up with Tim at Wok’n'Noodle. Had the always delicious Thai Style Vegetarian Noodles. (With tofu, cabbage, carrot, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, bok choi and spring onion).

Tim has been looking at setting up a website. I’ve sold him on how cool SliceHost is. Yes it is more expensive than just a virtual domain, but it is great to have complete control over the whole operating system, and good learning too.

I’ve done my bit for the Fedora project too. Tim is also going to run Fedora 8 as well, that way we are both talking the same language (rpm, yum, service, /etc/sysconfig).

I demo’ed the SliceManager and answered how to do a few things with yum.
Q: How do you update the distro with yum?
A: “yum update”

Q: How do you search for a package with yum?
A: “yum search packagename”

Q: How do you see all the packages which are installed?
A: “rpm -qa”

Q: How do you see all the files which were installed with a package?
A: “rpm -qil packagename”

I think he’ll find it very easy.

I gave him a couple of hints about how I secure my systems too, but I don’t think I’ll blog those .