Fedora 11 is out with lot of new updates. Here is a first glance at things that I liked. Fedora Complete Feature list is available here: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList Cool Image isn’t it? Here I’m inside LiveCD session Firefox 3.5 beta4 is now available for better browsing experience Kannada works out-of-box. No font installation required and Lohit [...]

Scott Radvan, Content Author, Red Hat APAC sent an email updating Fedora Linux fans about the availability of very-nearly-finished Security Guide. It has its focus on Fedora and it will be available in the upcoming Fedora 11 release. He also invites reviews/comments on the work available here.

While working on Redhat based operating systems, its common to face few issues related to RPM. Rpm database gets corrupted. It might segfault, it might cause lots of issues while installing or updating packages. First step to resolve RPM related issues is to rebuild the rpm database. This can be done by removing the __db [...]

If you want to be able to install the packages from DVD or CDROM available with you try the following instructions. First take the backup of /etc/yum.repos.d, remove those old repo files and add a new file called local.repo with the following lines: [local] name=Local CD Repo baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom Here /mnt/cdrom is the location of CD [...]

I tried adding an NIS client installed with Fedora 10 today and found that it was not able to authenticate the users via NIS. I found some hints on this link before I solved the problem. The issue as caused due to NetworkManager entires added into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file. I removed the following entry from the [...]

If you don’t want any one to access your system without permission, you should confirm that you don’t have recovery mode enabled in GRUB boot loader or it must be password protected. Otherwise any one can get into root console as and change the password to own the box. Here is how you add password [...]