Fedora
Fedora.next – what is it?
2014/04/07
Fedora.next is being much talked about but what it really is. If you want some insight’s and understand what it is, head over to this presentation. A nice presentation that explains the concept for …
Sandbox apache (httpd) for better security.
2014/03/26
Apache/httpd is something which you would like to have contained. And now fedora provides a native way/mechanism to to so with virt-sandbox-service. With this, you can create a virtualized sanbox …
Sandbox Firefox – First step to security
2014/03/19
First we will setup cgroup to limit cpu and memory usage, so here we go: Add the configuration in /etc/cgconfig.conf #------start cgconfig---------------- #new group group firefox { perm { task { …
Change display manager on Fedora
2013/11/08
Simple, just install and run the following
pkgwat -search packages for Fedora.
2013/08/23
pkgwat is a nice utility to search the fedora packages websearch. Description : Pronounced "package WAT", pkgwat is a fast CLI tool for querying : the fedora packages webapp. : …
power save mode for battery in Fedora 19.
2013/08/20
I was getting really bad battery life on my Fedora 19 system, and did not find much on how to tune it. Finally I found something that just does not need much configuration but works pretty well. So, …
Photobooth party on Fedora
2013/07/29
If you like the kind of effects in those photobooths then here is something that will get you some pretty good time. http://fedoraproject.org/en/using/tutorials/cheese.html […]
conky transparent window on Fedora with Gnome.
2013/07/22
On Fedora with Gnome-shell 3, its been long time that I was not able to get transparent window. So, finally I thought to spend some time to try to fix that. Finally got that fixed with all the …
Fedora – Ramdisk creation
2013/05/10
In Fedora, ramdisks are not created by default as is the case with RHEL. So, if you need to get Ramdisks on Fedora, then you can do this: sudo yum install MAKEDEV This will create some default …
ss – anothre utility to investigate sockets.
2013/04/11
ss is : […] ss is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing information similar to netstat. It can display more TCP and state informationsthan other tools. […] This comes in …
dwb – keyboard driven browser
2013/04/08
First off, install using the command sudo yum install dwb Now for the description: […] dwb is small webkit-based web-browser in the spirit of tiling window managers,that aims to be mostly …
steam on Linux – for Fedora
2013/02/22
I was trying to get steam on linux on my Fedora box. Headed over to steam website, but was astonished to find only Ubuntu client over there. A little googling presented me with the developer website …