First Fedora 13 Features Listed: NFSv4, DisplayPort

2010-06-11 1 min read Fedora

Fedora 12 will not see the light of day for a few more weeks still, but the first features for Fedora 13 are now known. On the Fedora Project Wiki is now the Fedora 13 feature list. Added so far to the Fedora 13 feature list are mostly the few features that didn’t make it in time for Fedora 12: NFSv4 protocol by default, support for mounting NFS servers over IPv6, and yum language package plug-in…

Let the cow speak what you want it to – ascii art with cowsay

2010-06-11 1 min read Fedora

A picture is worth a thousand words. So here’s the thousand word posting.

To install it, just execute:

sudo yum install cowsay

It does install a couple of other timepass things like cowthink and animalsay. So, here are some more screenshots:

Play media files in fedora.

2010-06-06 1 min read Linux

Found <a href="http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=100206">here .<div class="smallfont">

Media (DVD, web content, video & audio) playback in Fedora

Note: This howto has been transferred to my blog here. (Instructions for Fedora 7+ can be found here)

Hello,
There have been many complaints about media not working in Fedora – MP3s, DVDs, etc. So, I decided to make this guide to help out – By installing a few packages, you can get the codecs for these media or media formats, and solve the problem.

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.
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Security — Installing and monitoring snort logs.

2010-06-04 2 min read Fedora Linux

Snort is a very good security tool to install if you are concerned about the security of your system. I find it really useful but the problem is I keep forgetting to monitor the logs so what did I do, I installed snort and configured cron to send to logs everyday, here’s how.

On fedora, snort is available in the repository but the rules are not. So to install snort just type in the following in a terminal:

redet – build regular expression (regex) for any program.

2010-06-04 1 min read Fedora

Even if someone is a regex guru there are times that people get confused with some regular expression and want to either test it out or want to some help. Behold, redet is here. Lets start with installing redet:

sudo yum install redet

Once you are done with installation, just run it with redet. First you need to load the sample data, select your program and then enter the regex to test it out. Here are some screenshots to get you started.

Logwatch for Linux Systems.

2010-06-02 2 min read Fedora Linux

On my personal <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/client" title="Client (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_%28computing%29">desktop at home, I like to see the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/statistics" title="Statistics" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics">statistics at least once a day, for what was installed, what was run with <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sudo" title="Sudo" rel="homepage" href="http://www.sudo.ws/">sudo and other such details like <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/kernel" title="Kernel (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computing%29">kernel errors.

Running this monotonously every day is quite boring, so comes to rescue is logwatch. I have <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/installation" title="Installation (computer programs)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_%28computer_programs%29">installation so I will talk about the location with respect to that so for your distribution it might be a little different.

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