How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

2010-07-23 1 min read Fedora Linux

For those of you who don’t know about ailurus: Ailurus is cross-<a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux-distribution <a class="zem_slink" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers. And the features include: Ailurus can … display Linux skills install popular software change <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME settings display <a class="zem_slink" title="Hardware" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware">hardware information enable some third party repositories# clean apt/yum cache# backup and recover apt/yum status# the features marked with ”#” support Ubuntu/Fedora only Continue reading

FastestfoxLite - Disable prefetching and make firefox really fast.

2010-06-14 1 min read Firefox

If you are stuck with firefox performance, then you should try this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9148/<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-make-firefox-blazing-fast-in-a-jiffy-fasterfox-add-on/">How to make Firefox blazing fast in a jiffy: fasterfox add-on (taragana.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.cloudspace.com/blog/2010/06/03/html5-link-prefetching-or-the-most-dangerous-tag/">HTML5 Link Prefetching (or ”The Most Dangerous Tag”) (cloudspace.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2010/05/15/configure-prefetch-and-superfetch-with-tweakprefetch/">Configure Prefetch and Superfetch With TweakPrefetch (ghacks.net) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/10/fix-firefox-with-last-pass-not-responding/">Fix Firefox With Last Pass Not Responding (ghacks.net) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Enhanced by Zemanta" href="http://www. Continue reading

How To Install Ailurus On Fedora

2010-06-05 2 min read Fedora

For those who have not yet heard about ailurus: <img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png" alt="" width="24" height="24" />What is Ailurus? Ailurus is cross-Linux-<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">distribution <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_general_public_license" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers. <img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png" alt="" width="24" height="24" />What does Ailurus hope to do? Ailurus hopes to reduce the difficulty which newcomers encounter when they are using Linux. Continue reading

Resolved - New window does not open in new tab after installation of some plugin's.

2010-05-13 2 min read Linux

After I installed some plugin’s, the new windows were not opening in the tab. Rather they were opening in new window. This consumes time and memory which I did not like. I checked and re-checked to confirm that the setting for opening new window in tab was in there and still ………. alas…….. So, I reverted to checking if I could do something in the about:config entries to do the trick and yes it was there. Continue reading

Upgrade to Fedora 13 from your existing version using yum.

2010-04-21 1 min read Fedora Uncategorized

Well. this time it seems to be very simple : yum –releasever=13 upgrade update 22/April/2010: The key file will not be there so there are two options for you in this case: Install the following rpms from the downloaded rpms with ”yum –nogpg localinstall” a) fedora-release b) fedora-release-notes Run the whole upgrade with –nogpg option. Issue observed after the upgrade: The new kernel was not added in the grub menu and I had to manually add the below entry in the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_grub" title="GNU GRUB" rel="homepage" href="http://www. Continue reading

Cool OpenOffice.org Easter Eggs

2010-03-21 0 min read Linux

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