nixCraft » fedora http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:45:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Linux / UNIX Desktop Fun: Let it Snow On Your Desktophttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-xsnow.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-xsnow.html#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:22:19 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=8391 Feeling lonely this holiday season? Try Xsnow. This little app will let is snow on the desktop. Santa and his reindeer will complete your festive season feeling with moving snowflakes on your desktop, with Santa Claus running all over the screen. ]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-xsnow.html/feed 5 FAQ Updates – June/26/2011http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/faq-updates-june262011.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/faq-updates-june262011.html#comments Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:43:29 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=7901 Our FAQ section is updated in last few days with new howtos:

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"After The Software Wars", is a new book in which former Microsoft employee Keith Curtis explores the worlds of proprietary and free software. Quoting from the article:
While I came to not be all that thrilled with Fedora itself, I was floored merely by the installation process. It contained a graphical installer that ran all the way to completion, it resized my NTFS partition -- which I considered a minor miracle, setup dual boot, and actually did boot, and let me surf the Web. I didn't have a clue what to do next, but the mere fact that this all worked told me more about the potential of Linux than anything I had read so far. You cannot, by accident, build an airplane that actually flies.

=> How a Microsoft veteran learned to love Linux, and why it matters]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/learned-to-love-linux-and-why-it-matters.html/feed 3 Windows 7 Starter Edition Only Runs 3 Applications At Oncehttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/windows-7-starter-edition.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/windows-7-starter-edition.html#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:32:56 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=4628
MS-Windows 7 started edition can only runs 3 apps at a time. This is worse than MS-DOS limitations. Is Microsoft nuts? You can install Ubuntu and run as many apps you want for the Internet and office work.

]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/windows-7-starter-edition.html/feed 75 Important: Openssl Security Update [CVE-2008-5077]http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/cve20085077-important-openssl-security-update.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/cve20085077-important-openssl-security-update.html#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:58:45 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=4283 Linux / BSD and UNIX like operating systems includes software from the OpenSSL Project. The OpenSSL is commercial-grade, industry-strength, full-featured Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as general purpose cryptography library.

The Google security team discovered a flaw in the way OpenSSL checked the verification of certificates. An attacker in control of a malicious server, or able to effect a "man in the middle" attack, could present a malformed SSL/TLS signature from a certificate chain to a vulnerable client and bypass validation.

This update has been rated as having important security impact on FreeBSD, all version of Ubuntu / Debian, Red Hat (RHEL), CentOS, Fedora and other open source operating system that depends upon OpenSSL.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/cve20085077-important-openssl-security-update.html/feed 2 How To Install Puppet System Management Tool To Automate Tasks Across The Networkhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-install-puppet-service-management-software.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-install-puppet-service-management-software.html#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:20:39 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2635 Puppet is an open source configuration management tool. It is written in Ruby. This software is considered as an alternative to Cfengine configuration management system. I've used Cfengine for pushing configurations, applying patches and so on. ]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-install-puppet-service-management-software.html/feed 1 Linux: Display Japanese or Chinese Or Any Other Multilingual Text On The Console / Shell Prompthttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/display-chinese-japanese-korean-text-on-linux-console.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/display-chinese-japanese-korean-text-on-linux-console.html#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:27:21 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2468 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/display-chinese-japanese-korean-text-on-linux-console.html/feed 5 Project Spacewalk: Red Hat Open Sourced RHN Softwarehttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/redhat-project-spacewalk.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/redhat-project-spacewalk.html#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:50:09 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2393 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/redhat-project-spacewalk.html/feed 0 Free Oracle Unbreakable Linux CD / DVD Media Kit Giveawayshttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/oracle-free-dvd-kit.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/oracle-free-dvd-kit.html#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 20:20:20 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2329 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/oracle-free-dvd-kit.html/feed 27 Run Linux From USB Flash / Pen Drivehttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-from-usb-flash-pen-drive.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-from-usb-flash-pen-drive.html#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 19:15:59 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2309 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-from-usb-flash-pen-drive.html/feed 0 Linux Desktop Compared – 7 Distribution Shootouthttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-compared.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-compared.html#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 17:51:35 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2266 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-compared.html/feed 1 Open Source Java – OpenJDK Added To Fedora and Ubuntu Linuxhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/open-source-java-added-to-linux.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/open-source-java-added-to-linux.html#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:53:17 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2248 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/open-source-java-added-to-linux.html/feed 0 Sun Looks To Open Source The Rest of Javahttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/sun-looks-to-free-up-the-rest-of-java.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/sun-looks-to-free-up-the-rest-of-java.html#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:07:06 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2227 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/sun-looks-to-free-up-the-rest-of-java.html/feed 0 Red Hat Skips Linux Desktop – As It Is Not A Money Makerhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/redhat-skips-linux-desktop-system.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/redhat-skips-linux-desktop-system.html#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:52:15 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2208 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/redhat-skips-linux-desktop-system.html/feed 2 Sun touts big plans for OpenSolaris as first release nearshttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/sun-touts-big-plans-for-opensolaris.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/sun-touts-big-plans-for-opensolaris.html#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:22:57 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2203 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/sun-touts-big-plans-for-opensolaris.html/feed 0 OLPC Dual Boot Windows and Linux PC Coming Soonhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/olpc-developing-dual-boot-windows-linux-os-laptops.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/olpc-developing-dual-boot-windows-linux-os-laptops.html#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:23:07 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/olpc-developing-dual-boot-windows-linux-os-laptops.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/olpc-developing-dual-boot-windows-linux-os-laptops.html/feed 2 Download of the day: Vixta Linux distribution with Windows Vista Look and Feelhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-vixta-linux-iso-cd.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-vixta-linux-iso-cd.html#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:52:46 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-of-the-day-vixta-linux.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-vixta-linux-iso-cd.html/feed 4 How to: Linux reset the permissions of the installed rpm packages with –setperms optionhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reset-rhel-centos-fedora-package-file-permission.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reset-rhel-centos-fedora-package-file-permission.html#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:07:03 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reset-rhel-centos-fedora-package-file-permission.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reset-rhel-centos-fedora-package-file-permission.html/feed 16 Howto: Redhat Enterprise Linux SELinux policy guidehttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel5-centos-selinux-howto-guide.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel5-centos-selinux-howto-guide.html#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:00:43 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel5-centos-selinux-howto-guide.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel5-centos-selinux-howto-guide.html/feed 3