Quickly install most of the things that you need on Fedora.

2011-10-30 1 min read Fedora
easyLife is a user friendly program that installs packages on Fedora as well as adjustments most users want. It makes new users’ experience easy and fun, providing the means to set the OS up quickly and painless.
This app does not really require any more introduction.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/easylife-linux/

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Easy Linux for Fedora
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Fedora 16 screenshot with conky and bmpaenl2

2011-10-21 1 min read Fedora

For all those who used to keep complaining about the bottom panel of Gnome which used to show a list of windows, you can get it back with bmpanel2 (there are lot of other options too, but this one is light.). You can have themes for the panel also.

And the best part about using gnome-shell is that I always getting a feeling that I now have more space on the Desktop. And, thus conky looks good too on the Desktop. Here’s a screenshot.

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Get yourself some conkyrc files.

2011-10-05 2 min read Fedora Linux

If you are looking for some nice conkyrc files, then you can head over to :

Ubuntu Forums

In this thread you can see some very nice conkyrc files with screenshots. You can browse through the thread and get the one that you like. But if you are like me and would like to download all of them to see the features and commands in each of them then you would need to copy each of these files and paste them separately. But if you have to do everything manually then there’s not much of being on Linux 🙂

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some interesting alias

2011-09-27 1 min read Linux

For this time, I will just give you a link to to bashrc file.

http://hayne.net/MacDev/Bash/aliases.bash

Head over there and see some very interesting aliase’s.

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Creating a chroot environment in Fedora with bash and other utils.

2011-09-19 2 min read Bash Fedora Learning Linux

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I am testing some of my scripts to work on a very old system and there the versions of the most popular applications are very old, real old :(. So, some of things that I am very used to since last couple of years, do not seem to work as expected and I need to keep verifying a lot of things on the server, very inconvinient to keep testing the script on the server (need to connect on VPN) just to test some very simple things.

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better bash debugging

2011-09-16 1 min read Bash Linux

I was trying to debug some bash scripts yesterday and learnt something new 😉
There are lot of things in bash that you can use to debug and to start with you can enable xtrace mode as follows:

set -x

With this set you will see that all the commands are printed along with all other information as they are executed.
This you can do for any line or for the function or for the whole script. Once you set the option you can turn it
off with

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[Solved] ssh works but scp does not

2011-08-29 1 min read Bash Fedora Linux

Structure of an SSH binary packet
Image via Wikipedia

For quite sometime now, I was having this issue, that for the home system, I was able to connect to is using ssh but it never worked. Fnally after quite some debugging finally I found that the issue was with thebashrc. So, everytime I had to do a scp I would have to move/rename bashrc and do the reverse action after the scp was done.

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