Post-Install Solutions

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

Registering your hardware with Hardware4Linux to help other members of the community — by rasker — last modified Jan 21, 2009 07:00 AM

Hardware4Linux is a tool and a website to register your hardware with an easy facility to make your installation notes public to help others installing that hardware. It is complimentary to Smolt hardware registry but is somewhat easier to use and user friendly. You can quickly and easily upload your machines configuration and append notes to hardware you had problemns with or had to to manually configure.

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 sgallagh — 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 System eth0 to go online automatically at boot — by khaytsus — last modified Jun 28, 2010 10:22 PM

A design decision was made in Fedora 11 to not put the network devices online by default at login time. The user is required to manually put the devices online, and then manually set them to come online on subsequent boots. A bug was logged, but the decision was made that it was set this way by design, and hopefully there are further enhancements to improve the user experience in this regard coming in Fedora 12, but didn’t make it into 12 or 13, now maybe 14…

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.

Temporarily running Gnome as root user in F10 — by rasker — last modified Jan 21, 2009 07:00 AM

By default logging in as root from the graphical login screen is disabled to increase security in Fedora 10. Sometimes it is useful to login as root and have a full Gui available. e.g. Newly installed hardware requiring driver fixups. This how-to demonstrates how to temporarily login as root with a full Gnome desktop. At the next reboot everything will be back to normal and the machine running as it was originally.

True NTFS Read/Write — by strikeforce — last modified Apr 22, 2009 11:19 AM

How to install and enable the NTFS-3g driver. The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 file systems. Most POSIX file system operations are supported, with the exception of full file ownership and access right support.

Using Jigdo to Download ISO Images — by Corwyn — last modified Apr 28, 2008 04:45 AM

Jigdo Download Manager allows users the ability to download the Fedora Unity (and other) ISO’s and large files. Jigdo Download Manager downloads the component files then uses them to build the ISO based on a pre-created template. This how-to describes how a user can download and build the Unity Re-Spin ISO images or Fedora release ISO images using the Jigdo Download Manager. This provides for using public mirrors or a local data source.

Using sshfs — by kc8hfi — last modified May 31, 2012 09:03 AM

Install sshfs on a computer to be able to mount up directories on a remote system via ssh

VMware Player Installation — by scott_glaser — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM

VMware Player lets you evaluate new or pre-release software contained in virtual machines, without any installation or configuration hassles. You can also share existing virtual machines with colleagues or friends just use VMware Player to run any virtual machine. What is a virtual machine? A virtual machine is a computer defined in software. It’s like running a PC on your PC. VMware Player runs any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, GSX Server or ESX Server. VMware Player also supports Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk formats. VMware Player will only allow you to run pre-built virtural machines. If you want to create your own virtural machines you will need VMware Server, the how-to for VMware Serer is located in the Server Solutions area on this site.

What is root? How do I “become root?” — by bobjensen — last modified Feb 27, 2008 01:54 PM

“root” is the name of the user who can control everything on the entire computer. We call this the “super user.”

What is terminal? How do I “open a terminal?” — by bobjensen — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM

A “terminal” is a way of typing commands to the computer. That may sound very strange, but it’s actually really, really nice and easy once you get used to it. You can use Fedora as a totally graphical system, or you can use it totally with the terminal. I like to do both; I use whichever one is easier for the task I’m doing. You can either open a terminal inside of your graphical environment, or you can switch your whole screen to a terminal.

XChat User Commands How-To — by Southern_Gentleman — last modified Mar 24, 2008 12:00 AM

After a period of time of helping do support in the #fedora channel, i realized, i was constantly pointing to the same places again and again. The purpose of this post to show others how to make their own user commands. Also included is a link to a customized commands.conf pointing to the posts on the Fedora Unity sites.

Yum & RPM FAQ — by zcat — last modified Oct 10, 2009 02:26 PM

Solutions to some of the most commonly asked yum and rpm questions.

Yum Configuration — by bobjensen — last modified Dec 30, 2011 03:47 PM

The RPM Fusion team is proud to announce the public availability of its repositories that provide software which the Fedora project cannot provide as easy-to-install RPM packages.