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Fedora 13 all set for the Rocketry Artwork

Written on December 20th, 2009 at 23:34 pm by chia

By now you would know that the next Fedora release, Fedora 13, will be named "Goddard", after the famous Rocket scientist Robert H Goddard. After deciding on the name, fedora contributors have started working on the designs, themes and other artwork for the next release. There are a few ideas in the air about Rocketry related artwork but they are also looking of other fedora users and enthusiasts to come up with their more innovative stuff.

Yum-fastestmirror, Use fastest mirror for downloads

Written on December 7th, 2009 at 18:07 pm by chia

Yum is a great package management utility, but sometimes the only thing that annoys me is a slow download mirror. I am sure this will be a common problem among regular Fedora or Redhat users. Yum-fastestmirror aims to solve this problem. It provides a Yum plugin which measures the speed of available mirrors and sorts the list so that priority is given to the fastest mirrors. Read futher to see how to install yum-fastestmirror and configure properly to make this problem go away.

The official name of the Fedora 13 has been announced, Goddard

Written on December 6th, 2009 at 12:04 pm by chia

The voting for the name of Fedora's next release Fedora 13 ended on 4th Dec and the name is officially announced, its going to be Goddard. It won by a total of 1177 votes. Goddard is named after the great Rocket Scientist Robert H Goddard. Fedora guys gave this name a little thought. According to them, Konstantin (pronounced Constantine) Tsiolkovsky was a Russian rocket scientist and so was Robert H Goddard. There were 6 other names in the final list and all of them were related to Constantine.

Fedora 12, upgrade or fresh-install?

Written on November 17th, 2009 at 19:28 pm by chia

Constantine, Fedora 12 is going to be out  soon. I am really excited and I bet every linuxer will be equally excited and looking forward to try it out. Most of you will be in a dilemma, whether to do an upgrade or a fresh-install? what's best for my system? In this article I will give you some tips and methods which will help you answer such questions.

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How to Upgrade your existing system to Fedora 12, Constantine

Written on November 18th, 2009 at 01:05 am by chia

The new Fedora 12, Constantine is finally out now!! Even before the actual stable release it was already being looked upon as the greatest distribution released till now. If you are planning to upgrade from an existing installation then this article could be of some use to you. I have mentioned a few ways to easily upgrade to Fedora 12 from your existing installation.

How to install mysql server on fedora

Written on October 6th, 2009 at 06:27 am by chia

This howto will guide you on how to install mysql 5 on your fedora, start the mysql server on reboot, make new mysql users, change root and user's password and add new database, remove anonymous logins and give permissions to different users.

How to install Cherokee on Fedora 11

Written on October 3rd, 2009 at 06:09 am by chia

Cherokee HTTP server is a cross platform web server. It is very fast and flexible while being light weighted. It is written entirely in C and supports most of the widespread techologies now a days like FastCGI, HTTP load balancing. I will tell you how to install cherokee on fedora 11 with PHP5 and MySQL support.

How to install chromium browser in Fedora

Written on September 12th, 2009 at 22:55 pm by chia

There exists an open source project for the development of Google Chrome. The project is named as chromium and the browser chromium(according to documentation, only the project name is chromium, 'chrome' should be used instead) and is released under BSD license.