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This howto will show you how to verify Fedora media downloaded from an official Fedora mirror.

Ananconda, the installer for Fedora Core, is capable of using external RPM repositories during install. It's quite easy to use. Follow the steps below to add the livna repository during you install decreasing the amount of time required to setup your system.

This is a Small Guide on How Much Space you should reserve for your Fedora Core installation, and where to allocate the space. Of Course, this will not be valid for 100% of cases, but is a general frame.

A Howto on using iptables to configure your firewall

A bug in anaconda and another in system-config-network can lead to a broken /etc/hosts file. This results in various networking services not starting or otherwise missbehaving.

This article focuses on the step-by-step process on installing printer driver for iP1500, but may also apply to iP1000, iP2200 and iP4200, with some minor changes in the procedure.

Configuring an advanced input device like this Intellimouse with 5 buttons can be tricky. While this method was tested on Fedora Core 4 it should work on other versions of Fedora Core and could also be modified for other Linux distributions.

A Howto on using iptables to configure your firewall

As many Fedora Core users may note, there are times when Windows just does not cut it, and you would rather be working on your data in Linux instead of Windows. During those times you may find it necessarry to connect to a Server 2003 ADS. This soulution came about for just one such ocassion. We are not going to cover the requirements in this procedure as this solution is not recommended for a new Fedora Core user, this is tailored for an advanced user that would have the knowledge to join a domain with their Fedora Core machine. Also assistance will be required from the Administrator of the domain, should that not be you!!

Booting grub with the Fedora PXE vmlinuz/initrd images allows you to perform a network installation of Fedora over any existing linux distro, should you not be able to write to or boot from the conventional CD/DVD install media. A PXE netinstall can both be done locally, and with extra care, remotely using VNC. Both methods are explained in this HOWTO.

The Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Client is a remote access client that allows people to connect to applications available on central servers. The purpose of this how-to is to resolve the "missing dependency : libXm.so.3" problem that you face when attempting to install it on Fedora 8.

BitTorrent is a client application for the torrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol created by programmer Bram Cohen. BitTorrent is designed to widely distribute large amounts of data without incurring the corresponding consumption in server and bandwidth resources (and typically, monetary fees attracted as a result of that). The original BitTorrent application is written in Python and its source code has been released under the BitTorrent Open Source License (a modified version of the Jabber Open Source License), as of version 4.0. The name "BitTorrent" refers to the distribution protocol, the original client application, and the .torrent file type.

Many people get confused when trying to boot in to a runlevel other than runlevel 5, for example runlevel 3, disabiling the GUI front end with which most users are familiar. Hopefully this howto will help answer the questions "How do I disable X" or "How do I boot without X" or even "How do I get to single user mode."

A Howto on using iptables to configure your firewall

Building modules for SELinux to allow specific actions. This also covers the basic concept(s) of testing if SELinux is the culprit. This howto is specific to Fedora Core 5.

This howto outlines a few extra steps that can be taken to further secure a SSH server, chiefly from the constant onslaught of automated brute-force password attacks.

This is the safest method of installing the Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) which can be used to for compiling programs in Java. If you have the JDK installed, you do not need to install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) since it is already included in the JDK.

This will show how to install the opensource Java IDE Netbeans. One of the more popular and easy to install IDE's with lots of additional features.

This howto will show you how to painlessly install the Sun Java broswer plugin. You should be aware of several potential risks before you start. 1. Fedora uses gcj which is a free version of Java, but it is not Java. There are potential mix-match problems that can arise when compiling some applictions on development machines. 2. If your system is slow you may run into problems as Sun Java tends to be CPU and RAM intensive. 3. If you're running an x86_64 system and compiling 32bit applications without the proper chrooted environment it will most likely not work. The main purpose for this howto is only for a browser solution. If you need more in-depth instructions please see the howto here by Scott Glaser or the IcedTea howto by jmahowald. That said let's get started.

This howto covers Installing Steam onto your Fedora using Wine.

This will install Finity Flight II Episode III: Beast's Wish. However this howto applies to all Finity Flight II Episodes I-III.

There have been a number of bugs reported in Red Hat bugzilla against X which have recently been tracked down to 3rd party video drivers being the culprit behind the problem the user was experienced. In many of the cases however, it wasn't obvious that the 3rd party drivers were at fault because the user was actually using the Red Hat supplied drivers, and not using the 3rd party driver that they had previously installed.

There are now ATi driver RPMs provided by rpm.livna.org that are designed especially for Fedora. If you're using yum, and you're using our suggested yum configuration, you should be able to install the drivers easily.

We suggest using the nVidia rpms from the rpm.livna.org repository. Some people report problems once in a great while. If you are one of those people here's how to install the nVidia drivers if the RPM doesn't work (or if you don't want to use the RPM):

If your skype test call doesn't give your voice back then you may have to enable your "microphone capture" an your "mic boost" devices. Note that this aren't the "microphone" device. This also applies to any other program that need microphone capturing, as the ekiga VoIP service, and is not skype unique feature.

Totem-xine is a simple but powerfull movie player, this version is in livna.repo, and is linked against xine-lib unlike Fedora totem package, which is linked against gstreamer. Support for DVD playing will also be added.

This howto covers installing the windows media codecs for use on Fedora.