How to install / enable Java Plugin / Applets in Firefox on CentOS 5

CentOS comes with OpenJava JRE installed. However that doesn't provide the required libraries to run Java from browsers (read: applets). Here are the steps to install and enable applets / Java plugin in Firefox browser on CentOS 5.

Note: The instructions may be applicable to other versions of CentOS, Fedora, others Linux distros too. However it has only been tested on CentOS 5.3. Full article (310 words) »

Top 10 Features of Fedora 11 Leonidas

fedora-11After reviewing the whole line-up of operating systems, namely Fedora 10, Windows 7, Ubuntu 8.10 and Open suse 11.1 last year, we started doing our bits of researches with Windows 8 and Ubuntu 9.10 overview recently. This time around its Fedora 11 Leonidas. After an extensive research on Fedora 11 which is due on 26th May, 2009, we have finally come out with top features of Leonidas. Let's discuss.

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