How To Migrate Mantis Defect Tracking System From Windows To Linux / Fedora Core 6

May 14th, 2007 Fedora Core 6 ships with Firefox 1.5.x version. Firefox 2.0.x is currently in development repository of Fedora Core 6.

June 22nd, 2007 Fedora Core team, in its infinite wisdom, decided to ship a so-called "free" (but essentially useless and crappy; pardon my French) JVM (read gcj) with its installation. Not only that this "free" JVM is integrated with java softwares from Fedora repositories making them pretty hard to use too.

October 21st, 2008 Fedora Core 6 an earlier do not have the latest version of rdiff-backup - version 1.2.2. The latest version of rdiff-backup is incompatible with the earlier versions.

March 8th, 2007 I have been evaluating both Xubuntu and Fedora Core along with Cent OS (Open Source version / fork of Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition). The key value and differences between these releases are: Xubuntu Xubuntu is definitely faster to use in general due to its light-weight Xfce desktop interface.

June 3rd, 2007 Linux comes with automatic setup for dual-monitors like windows. However I found the gnome applet rather buggy and unusable.

September 28th, 2007 Fedora Core 6 has recently been updated to Kernel version 2.6.22.5-49. When you depend on compiled kernel modules, as in the case of nVidia drivers from Livna, you have to update them too.

April 30th, 2007 To monitor CPU temperature in Linux you will need to install lm_sensors package and then install gnome-applet-sensors (assuming you are using gnome) to get a nice graphical display. The devil is in the details.

August 22nd, 2007 Fedora project has created a simple script to install Fedora 7 on a USB Drive with 1GB+ capacity. To use the script you will need two things: 1.

September 24th, 2007 I was looking for a simple free & open source trouble ticket system. I checked several of them, all the popular ones and more.

May 2nd, 2007 The Trashcan on your Fedora Core desktop (tested for gnome) is actually located in ~/Trash directory. So a simple commaond as below should clear your trash: rm -rf ~/.Trash/* Why did I need this? There were some files in the Trash can which I didn't have permission to clean.

April 13th, 2007 I talked about xmemo as possible ipmsg alternative for Linux. Unfortunately I found it very much inferior to ipmsg.

September 11th, 2007 Most guide to adding multiple IP addresses on Linux starts with the Microsoft-like solution of using ifconfig. While the solution is correct it doesn't survive a reboot or even a network restart.

July 8th, 2006 The perfect setup of fedora core 4 fails you on multiple fronts. First you cannot install apt as the package it mentioned has become obsolete and latest packages do not install with rpm.

July 30th, 2007 It has been several months that I fully migrated to Linux. The whole company has moved 100% to Linux, all servers, desktop ...

June 6th, 2009 Microsoft had introduced a new free email and newsgroup client in Windows Vista, Windows Mail. It succeeded Microsoft's long grown Outlook Express.