Upgrade to Fedora 13 from your existing version using yum.

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:

1. Install the following rpms from the downloaded rpms with ”yum –nogpg localinstall”
   a) fedora-release
   b) fedora-release-notes
2. 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.gnu.org/software/grub/">menu.lst file:

Create your own splash screen for gimp

Gimp allows you to set the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/splash_screen" title="Splash screen" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splash_screen">splash screen very easily. All you need to do is copy the image to ~/.gimp-/splashes/. There is <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/betting" title="Betting (poker)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betting_%28poker%29">no limit on the size or color. You just copy all the images you like to have as splash and one of them would be randomly picked up from the said direcotory for the splash image.

Ubuntu Sucks Like a Shopvac and Other Linux Rants

Almost 100 articles and blogs on the topic of “ubuntu sucks” were published in the past month alone, and about as many were published that unequivocally state Windows is better than Ubuntu.<table border="0">

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But upon closer examination, I found that a substantial portion of these negative reactions to Ubuntu stem from unrealistic comparisons.

Almost all of the hurdles people seem to have when switching from Windows to Ubuntu appear to be errors in judgment and assessment, rather than actual problems with the OS.

OpenDNS and Proxies: Putting it All Together on Ubuntu Karmic

I’ve been running <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/ubuntu" title="Ubuntu (operating system)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu as my laptop <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/operating_system" title="Operating system" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system">operating system for quite some time (year or more) and find it to be quite wonderful. However, recently I had some nasty times getting everything to work with OpenDNS.

The easy thing to do is change /etc/<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/resolv_conf" title="Resolv.conf" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolv.conf">resolv.conf to contain the OpenDNS entries. However, this was complicated by my use of <a href="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/">polipo (web cache), <a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~rombouts/pdnsd/">pdnsd (<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/name_server" title="Name server" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_server">DNS cache), and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolvconf">resolvconf (a resolv.conf file manager) – not to mention the use of <a href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ddclient">ddclient to update the dynamic <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/internet_protocol" title="Internet Protocol" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol">IP on the laptop, and the Gnome <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/">NetworkManager.

Script to Watch for Ubuntu 9.10 Launch – can be used in other scenarios.

I know ubuntu is out already but this is something that you can use to monitor a webpage.

This script will run check a for the Ubuntu 9.10 launch once every 5 mins and let you know when it&#8217;s available:

while [ 1 ]; do if [ -z \"`curl -I \"http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/release/\"|grep \"404\"`\" ]; then kdialog --msgbox \"9.10 Released\"; exit; fi; sleep 300;  done

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EncFS – Simple article to use Encrypted filesystem in Linux

A nice article here

EncFS is an easy-to-use, command-line tool for storing information in encrypted form. It’s not really a file-system, but it pretends to be one at the CLI. If you’ve been searching for a means of encrypting and decrypting your sensitive data easily, here it is.
User Level: Intermediate
EncFS is included with the distribution I’m using on the desktop, Ubuntu Dapper, so all I needed to do to install it was a few clicks in Synaptic. Look for the encfs package, and select if for installation. It should pull down all of the dependencies for the system. If you’re not so lucky, and your distro doesn’t include EncFS packages, you can download the latest tarball from a here and build it from the source. See the EncFS site for a dependencies.

Boot Linux Over HTTP With boot.kernel.org (BKO)

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This tutorial shows how you can <a HREF="http://www.howtoforge.com/boot-linux-over-http-with-boot.kernel.org-bko">boot Linux over HTTP with boot.kernel.org (BKO). All that users need is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe) to boot the machine. This gpxe program provides network booting facility. BKO allows you to boot into the following distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Damn Small Linux, Knoppix, Fedora. BKO provides gpxe images for USB sticks, CDs, and also for floppies, i.e., you can boot from a USB sticks, a CD, or a floppy.