Recently a new system has been added to people.fp.o, the ability to host yum repositories. It’s not an equivalent of Ubuntu’s PPA system by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s another useful facility to have available. I’ve been testing this over the past few hours with a new package: SparkleShare. For those who’ve never heard of it before, this is essentially a little tray app that synchronises a local directory tree with one held on a remote server: you can think of this as being very similar to Ubuntu One, Dropbox, iFolder or similar.

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