Redhat will release Fedora Core 6 today. The Fedora website is being hammered or maybe just being updated prior to its release at 2pm today. One of the early reviews of Fedora Core 6 was written by Michael Larabel at phoronix.com while Fedora News has this press release today. If you have been trying to [...]
I recently had the urge to replace my Linux desktop from Fedora to Ubuntu mostly because of the popularity of the Ubuntu desktop among Linux users. I gave Ubuntu a try using Ubuntu’s Live CD. After a few hours of playing around with the desktop, I’ve decided to stick with Fedora Core 5. It’s not [...]
The Redhat Development Team just released Fedora Core 5 code named Bordeaux. You can download the ISOs at the Fedora website. What’s new? Read the release article from from Fedoranews.org. It’s essentially updates for Gnome, KDE, OpenOffice, Mono, Yum, Apache and SELinux.
You’ve decided to build a dual-boot system. You’ve just finished installing Windows XP after your Fedora Core 4 install. By this time, you are probably scratching your head as to what happened to the Linux partition after installing Windows XP. Is it gone?
I’ve learned something new today, Sudo. Sudo is a Unix command that allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run some or all commands as root. Why? Well, I have this program called Bluefish which I use as a HTML editor. I have to run Bluefish as root to modify my webroot [...]
I just logged in to check on my neglected linux box. I am delighted to know the system has been running for 179 days. A power failure caused the last downtime. In reality, it has been over a year since I rebooted my system. Of course, I checked the logs for intrusions. I was glad [...]