Linux / Fedora: How To Freeze Packages From Yum Update in 3 Steps

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.

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

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.

December 26th, 2006 Install Sun's Java Virtual Machine ( J2SE(TM) Development Kit 5.0 Update 9 ) on Fedora Core / Linux platform in 5 simple steps. The procedure is geared for users having access to Linux box from ssh / telnet only as in a vpn / dedicated web hosting.

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

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.

April 29th, 2009 Well the third pre release version of Fedora 11, Leonidas is out. Officially Fedora project has come out with a pre release copy of the new version of the Linux Distro that is to be released 28 days from now.

August 26th, 2006 In two simple steps: 1. Login as root.

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.

January 6th, 2009 After the much-hyped Fedora 10, its time for Fedora 11 to take the stage. For the developers gung ho over the best title for their new release, contributions from all in Fedora community is awaited.

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.

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.

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.

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.