Fedora
Tora installation on Fedora 16 with rpm
2012/02/09
Last article I talked about tora installation from the sources, but if that is too much for you then you can use this one liner: rpm -ivh "http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/tora-2.1.3-1.fc16.i686.rpm" …
tora on Fedora 16 for mysql and Oracle.
2012/02/06
Sometime back I had posted a article on Tora on Fedora. But that was a while back and things have progressed and we already have Fedora 16 (aka Verne). So, awhile back I installed Tora on my Fedora 16 …
Set gnome-shell to start in fallback mode without GUI.
2012/01/26
If you run into issues with gnome-shell then gnome-shell should allow you to disable all the plugins and get the gnome-shell. But since gnome-shell is still evolving, you might run into issue where …
Color disk usage on Fedora
2012/01/21
For this tip, you would need to setup the rpm-shere repository. You can get the information here. Once you have done that you need to install the cdu package with the following command: sudo yum …
Interesting repository for Fedora.
2012/01/18
Here is one repository that you can add to your Fedora to give it a few more hundred packages:
Benchmarking the system/CPU performance
2012/01/15
Have you ever wanted to have a quick check on your CPU performance. I know that lot of people will say that this is not the right way to do this, but here is something that you can use to check the …
conky script used to monitor server status remotely.
2012/01/12
I was looking for something to monitor few details on the server. I thought about quite a lot of applications, some open source and some scripts developed in house. But my requirements were quite …
Consistent ethernet device names in Verne
2011/12/13
Fedora now supports consistent device names across the network with bios device names for the ethernet devices. If you upgraded your earlier version of Fedora then you may need to go to root access to …
rpmorphan – deborphan for the rpm based distros.
2011/12/07
<td> <div class="bash codecolorer"> <span class="kw2">sudo</span> <span class="kw2">yum install</span> rpmorphan …
quadkonsole – multiple consoles to make your life easier
2011/11/21
First lets install quadkonsole: yum install quadkonsole Now, to launch the quadkonsole, just type quadkonsole in the run box (appears with Alt+F2). You will by default see 4 console windows in single …
mplayer – find all the installed codes for audio and video
2011/11/09
Image via Wikipedia […] Some time back, I was trying to find out all the codecs that are installed for my mplayer. These could be the ones that came with mplayer or the ones that I downloaded …
Quickly install most of the things that you need on Fedora.
2011/10/30
http://sourceforge.net/projects/easylife-linux/