To those of you who have been looking for a better Gnome, the wait may finally be over. Gnome 3.0 released on April 7th, 2011 and should be coming to your favorite Linux distribution soon. If you do not wish to wait, you can download the Gnome 3 distributions of Fedora and OpenSuse at the… Continue reading Gnome 3.0
Howto: Install Fedora from a LiveUSB flash drive or CD.
When you have a liveUSB flash drive or liveUSB CD the installation of Fedora is fairly straight forward. 1. Install the LiveUSB flash drive or CD. 2. Reboot your computer. 3. Press F8 to acquire the boot menu of your computer. Some systems may require a different F key such as F2 or F5. 4.… Continue reading Howto: Install Fedora from a LiveUSB flash drive or CD.
Howto: create a local repository for Fedora.
Creating a local Fedora repository is a great way to conserve bandwidth. You can update all of the computers on your local network from one repository. 1) Install a web server. I use apache. su -c yum install httpd -y 2) Create the directories that become the local repository. su -c mkdir -p /var/www/html/yum/F15/releases su… Continue reading Howto: create a local repository for Fedora.
Howto: fix Gconf error from Firefox
An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for firefox. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly. If you click on details of that error you may see: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks… Continue reading Howto: fix Gconf error from Firefox
Howto: F14 using ALSA + Intel HD Audio + Pulseaudio
If you find you are loosing mixer settings, when you have Intel HD Audio, pulseaudio and ALSA all installed, try removing the pulseaudio package. This often fixes the issue.
WordPress 3.03
There is a new version of WordPress out. 3.03.
WordPress 3.02 Released.
WordPress 3.02 has been released and can now be installed via your WordPress dashboard.
Fedora 14 Released and now available
2 November 2010, Fedora 14 was officially released. It is now available for download.
kernel update for Fedora 13
The 2.6.34.7-61 kernel is now available for Fedora 13 i686, PAE, and x64 platforms. The standard mirrors and repositories have it.
Updated plugins, adobe acrobat reader, prevent some security issues
There are new updates for Adobe Acrobat reader. A new version of the 64 bit version of the Adobe Flash plugin for Linux and WIndows. Also there is a new version of Java 6 update 22 available at Java.com