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Fedora 11 Leonidas was released two days ago, and last night, I decided to upgrade from Fedora 10. I wimped out , however: instead of going the yum route , I used Preupgrade , which is a simplified version of the upgrade process. Preupgrade downloads all the necessary packages for an Anaconda-assisted upgrade. So, after about four hours of downloading the packages, I was finally upgraded to Fedora 11. Some significant changes from the previous releases are as follows: The Presto yum plugin, which uses deltarpms that significantly reduces the amount of data to be downloaded in updating packages. F11 boots faster -- about 30 seconds less than F10 in my not-so-scientific tests -- because the Fedora project managed to identify boot bottlenecks (they removed setroubleshootd, for one). Firefox 3.5 now comes bundled with F11, which brings private browsing mode and a faster Javascript engine among other improvements. I hit some snags, though: Gwibber ( 0.9.1-2.288bzr.fc11 ) does not see...

The weather is a downer for the kids. It's a good thing there are no classes yet, or it would have been much worse for them. Since kuya Gab and Julian couldn't go out and play, we had to have some indoor activities. I recently bought a pack of Origami papers from Saizen Daiso store in Galleria. It was a good buy: 330 75mm x 75mm papers in assorted colors, for only Php85. (Disclosure: My sister-in-law is a brand manager for Saizen.) I folded a few animals for them: the classic crane, a frog, a snake, a raven, and a manta ray. Kuya Gab researched the rest off the web. Google was his friend all the way. ;) There are notes in the photo page . I'm also folding some modular Origami starting with simple polyhedrons, and later on (patience permits) Sonobe balls and Mio Tsugawa's Arabesque . (As an aside, I thought Wolfram Alpha would have some interesting results on [origami]. Sadly, I was disappointed .)