Posted on May 24, 2009

Fedora 11 Leonidas, How to Upgrade

Please make sure to backup important files before starting the upgrade process. The upgrade should work without problems, but for your own safety: Backup your datas!

Update 2009-05-24: Please read the comment from Paul W. Frields (Thank you, Paul!) regarding the upgrade process before following this tutorial. I recommend you to wait until Leonidas is officially released and to not use the Rawhide-branch. (The procedure will be the same as mentioned here, but without the “Display unstable test releases above” check box setting.)

As you may have seen from the banner I’ve installed on the upper right at my webpage, Fedora 11 Leonidas will be here in the next few days.

All of you using Fedora 10 right now and who can’t stand the wait to upgrade to Leonidas there is a way to upgrade today to the last snapshot of the yet unreleased version of Fedora 11 Leonidas.
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Posted on May 17, 2009

Youtube Discovery (Piano Trio: Trio Vita)

The Trio Vita

Recently on youtube I’ve encountered a channel called Midwest Young Artists. These channel is presenting young musical talents. They all seam to have great technique and musicality (so watch the channel if you’re interested into this), but three of them apealed my special attraction: The Trio Vita. Especially the communication between the three musicians and the understanding of the musical structure, great sense for melodic lines and polyphonic movements. This is so dazzling what they are able to do at their age.

Unfortunately there are only three recordings avaible at youtube (wich I like to present you here at a glance; don’t forget to visit the youtube channel, too). I’d really like to hear more of them.

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