TechFiz on June 11th, 2009

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 Kannada font looks lot better [...]

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TechFiz on March 11th, 2009

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.

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TechFiz on March 3rd, 2009

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 files [...]

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TechFiz on January 13th, 2009

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 mount. Change it as [...]

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TechFiz on January 13th, 2009

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 above mentioned [...]

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TechFiz on December 27th, 2008

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 to [...]

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