Posts Tagged ‘fedora’
Fedora 10
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: December 10, 2008
- In: OpenSource| linux
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Fedora 10 was released a few days ago and since Fedora 9 for me was a bit of a dissapointment ,I hoped things would smoothen out in F10 .
The installation was smooth .A nice interface welcomes you at installation . I usually create 3 partitions alloting around 700MB for /boot , 1024MB for swap and [...]
Screenlets
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: June 22, 2008
Screenlets are screen applets.They look good and provide great functionality.They are small owner drawn applications written in Python.They are a really good alternative to gDesklets too.
Heres how you go about installing them:
For Fedora:
You need gnome-keyring and python devel packages installed. Also you need the rsvg libraries.
Switch to the super user in the terminal.Then
yum install python-devel [...]
YUM tips and tricks
Posted by: balkrishnapatankar on: May 10, 2008
This is a post from KageSenshi’s blog.A very active member of the Malaysian Open Source Software community.Many have complained that yum isnt as fast as apt-get . These are 12 tips and tricks which will help you make yum work faster and better.
YUM Update Manager is the default package manager used in Fedora and [...]
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