How To Update nVidia Driver From Livna for Fedora Core 6 Linux Kernel 2.6.22.5-49

April 12th, 2007 nVidia provides linux drivers from its website. Unfortunately it doesn't work with recent kernels.

September 14th, 2009 Before you read, here is a bit of warning: Do not install the nVidia driver that you can download from nVidia.com. The driver may install fine but may not work as you expect.

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

October 29th, 2008 All you have to do is run this simple one line command: rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm && yum -y install vlc python-vlc mozilla-vlc Note: For earlier versions of Fedora just change the number to correspond to the appropriate version. For example for Fedora Core 6 the command will be: rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm && yum -y install vlc python-vlc mozilla-vlc This sets up livna yum repository configuration on your machine and then download and installs vlc media player as well vlc extensions for python and mozilla group of browsers.

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.

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.

March 30th, 2007 I am minimally back online. The office renovation is in full progress.

January 15th, 2009 Graphics cards and drivers are preferable when they are already installed. Lol. Whenever a re-formatting is needed or suppose a new OS is to be tried in your computer, one can not but be unsettled with questions like will the beta or early release support my graphics card, or in many cases several graphics cards and will the frame rate suffer, what if it doesn't install and so on and so forth.

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.

April 29th, 2007 I started using dual monitors (SyncMaster 740N) on Linux (Fedora Core 6) about a month back on my new dream computer. I used GeForce 6200 LE with 256 MB RAM which provides for dual monitors with a VGA and DVI output.

April 13th, 2008 I am using Linux (Fedora Core 6) on a pretty high end hardware (at least when I bought it) - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz (4M shared L2 Cache) with 2 GB DDR2 RAM, nVidia dual-head graphics card for over a year now. And yet a simple change made it at least 20-40% faster.

April 11th, 2007 Anaconda has a well documented defect where it installs i586 based kernel in i686 machines. It causes problems with several drivers including nvidia drivers.

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.

March 22nd, 2008 Have you seen the error while installing a package using yum / yumex? Error: vlc conflicts with faad2 >= 2.5 Error: Missing Dependency: faad2 < 2.5 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs The error is because of using freshrpms repository or other repository to install recent version of faad2. Now let's see how you can solve it.

May 27th, 2007 RPM based systems like RedHat, Fedora or CentOS often have the system configured for automatic updates. This ensures that your software is always upto date.