Post-Install Solutions

Additional HDD via Terminal — by opsec — last modified Jun 13, 2008 05:32 PM

This is a simple howto designed to show you the basics of adding a new hard disk to an existing system using fdisk and mkfs.

Configuring SUDO — by Richard June — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM

It is a known fact that operating a computer as administrator (or root in linux) is very bad. This How-To covers how to configure and use sudo to perform commands as root, allowing you to do what you need to do, and still behaving like a moderately responsible person. There are two parts: part one is configuring sudo to allow users in the group "wheel" to run commands as root. Part two is adding users to the "wheel" group. Allowing users to run commands as root without first requiring a password is a potentially dangerous thing. Extra care should be taken if you choose to let sudo run without a password.

Customizing the Grub system bootloader — by opsec — last modified Jun 16, 2008 08:00 PM

This howto will describe how you can change the background image/color, make a new background/splash image from your existing image, rename the menu, reorder the position of menu items, add extra boot arguments to the kernel, change the default menu item, change the default timeout before the system loads the default menu item, add another operating system to the menu.

Firefox and Thunderbird — by scott_glaser — last modified Mar 24, 2008 01:27 AM

Firefox is now the default web browser in Fedora Linux. The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It's easy to import your favorites and settings and get started. Thunderbird is not yet installed by default, but that is what this procedure is about. Thunderbird delivers. Enjoy safe, fast, and easy e-mail, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and customizable views. Brought to you by the makers of Firefox, Thunderbird makes email better.

Gnome-keyring automatic opened when login with pam keyring — by Thomas Janssen — last modified Apr 07, 2008 02:40 PM

How to get the gnome-keyring automatic opened for, example Wlan, when you login into Gnome.

Hardware Monitoring with GKrellM — by Re Alvarez — last modified Apr 16, 2008 10:15 AM

GKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its appearance to your window manager, Gtk, or any other theme. You can monitor things like hardware temperature, wifi signal strength, mailbox, weather, moon calendar, sun clock, RAM usage, hard disk I/O, etc., etc. using GKrellM

How to Change Runlevels — by bobjensen — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM

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."

How to reset forgotten root password — by Re Alvarez — last modified Mar 11, 2008 11:44 AM

You can reset the root password in case you have forgotten it. For this we use boot options in grub. We will boot in runlevel 1 for this purpose. Runlevel 1 is Single User mode.

How to to remove Icons from the Desktop in Gnome — by Re Alvarez — last modified Feb 29, 2008 05:25 PM

GConf-Editor is a tool used for editing the GConf configuration database. It might be useful when the proper configuration utility for some software provides no way of changing some option.

Installing Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Client on Fedora 8 — by Ihab Al Merhebi — last modified Jan 30, 2008 02:35 AM

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.

Installing Compiz-Fusion in Fedora 9 — by opsec — last modified Jun 17, 2008 09:53 PM

This brief howto will go over installing and configuring Compiz-Fusion in Fedora 9 using yum in the GNOME Desktop Environment. The default system install includes only Compiz, not Compiz-Fusion.

Java IcedTea (OpenJDK) — by jpmahowald — last modified May 07, 2008 03:38 AM

Previously to get a Sun JDK for Java required additional steps as it was not redistributable. With IcedTea, based on OpenJDK, there is a Fedora package of the Java 1.7 preview.

Open terminal with Gnome right click — by Southern_Gentleman — last modified Mar 24, 2008 12:11 AM

In up-stream Gnome Wisdom, the right click open terminal option was removed in version 2.14 + the following will show how to get this fantastic feature back

PPTP client config — by strikeforce — last modified Mar 24, 2008 12:08 AM

PPTP Client is a Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD client for the proprietary Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol, PPTP. Allows connection to a PPTP based Virtual Private Network (VPN) as used by employers and some cable and ADSL internet service providers.

Removing yum-updatesd — by jpmahowald — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM

If you get the error "Another application is running which is accessing software information" but you are not updating your packages, the problem is yum-updatesd. yum-updatesd is supposed to check regularly if you have any updates. Unfortunately it locks all package programs like yum and pup. To fix this remove yum-updatesd

Securing SSH — by zcat — last modified Feb 05, 2008 02:42 PM

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.

Set up a remote KDE session from Windows — by Stephen Gallagher — last modified Jul 11, 2008 07:59 AM

This short tutorial will describe how to use PuTTY, and XMing on Windows to connect to a remote Fedora server and display a complete KDE desktop.

Setting Up Bittorrent and Bittorrent-Gui — by scott_glaser — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM

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.

Sharing files with NFSv4 on Fedora (Server -> Multi) — by renich — last modified Mar 24, 2008 01:40 AM

This HowTo explains how to set up the Network File System version 4 on your LAN for multiple shares. It explains, also, how to mount the "exports" on your client.

Smolt — by Clive — last modified Mar 15, 2008 12:06 PM

Have you ever tried to find out, if a specific computer device (e.g. laptop, sound card, wireless card) you want to buy, works with Linux? If yes, you know how distributed all the information is over the net. Here is the chance to build a solid, updated database.