Upgrade to Fedora 13 from your existing version using yum.

Well. this time it seems to be very simple :

yum –releasever=13 upgrade

update 22/April/2010:
The key file will not be there so there are two options for you in this case:

1. Install the following rpms from the downloaded rpms with ”yum –nogpg localinstall”
   a) fedora-release
   b) fedora-release-notes
2. Run the whole upgrade with –nogpg option.

Issue observed after the upgrade:
The new kernel was not added in the grub menu and I had to manually add the below entry in the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_grub" title="GNU GRUB" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/">menu.lst file:

Microsoft Updates Linux Code

Microsoft releases enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to the Linux community in 2009.

Microsoft has released enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to

<a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Microsoft-Updates-Linux-Code-741438/?kc=EWKNLLIN04062010STR1" target="_blank">Read more.

l-exp listrs – A new look at linux blogs and sites

[Movie Review]RANN- predictable from Puttu

IdealisticHarshvardhan mallik(<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: #ff420e;">B) and his son Jay(<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sudeep" title="Sudeep" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudeep">Sudeep), find their channel loosing out on <span style="color: #9999ff;">popularity ratings for a rival <span style="color: #7e0021;">channel smartly run by his X-employee <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/mohnish_behl" title="Mohnish Behl" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046894/">Mohnish Behl. Jay is provoked and hence in an attempt to rebuild and regain the foothold,he <span style="color: #00ae00;">plans a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sting_operation" title="Sting operation" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_operation">sting operationwith aspiring PM **<span style="color: #280099;">Manoj Pandey**(<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/paresh_rawal" title="Paresh Rawal" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712546/">Paresh Rawal) and his <span style="color: #00cccc;">Co-Bro industrialistRajat Kapoor. Everybody gets their share,but end up <span style="color: #0099ff;">gobbling the truth. How is that revealed and what are their<span style="color: #94bd5e;">repurcussions forms the rest.

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powertwitter for firefox- twitter with new look

<a title="Power Twitter" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591" target="_blank">Power Twitter is a addon for firefox that gives twitter a new look with a lot of features. Here is the list of features:

Power <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/twitter" title="Twitter" rel="homepage" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter adds features to the Twitter <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/user_interface" title="User interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface">Web interface including:

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Xoost – Search engine

<a title="Xoost Search engine" href="http://www.xoost.com" target="_blank">Xoost is a community search engine. From Xoost page:

Imagine you are searching for a topic related to your favourite Music, Travel destinations, Events. With Xoost you will benefit from the exponential value of doing it much more productively together with your friends or family members. It’s all about sharing Search skills & Knowledge.

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Happy holi to all.

A very happy Holi to all.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DSCN1119.resized.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1559" title="Holi" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSCN1119.resized-300x168.jpg" alt="Holi" width="300" height="168" />