Feb 5, 2012 | General, Gnu/Linux, linux, Technical, technology
It has become quite simple to upgrade the DELL Servers firmwares if you’re running Linux on them. Find the repos from Linux portal of Dell. # set up repos wget -q -O – https://linux.dell.com/repo/community/bootstrap.cgi | bash wget -q -O –...
Jun 11, 2009 | Gnu/Linux, linux, Product Info, Technical
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: https://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList Cool Image isn’t it? Here I’m inside LiveCD session Firefox...
Mar 11, 2009 | Books, linux, Product Info, Security, Technical
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...
Mar 3, 2009 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
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...
Jan 13, 2009 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
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...
Jan 13, 2009 | linux, Technical
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...
Dec 27, 2008 | General, linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
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...
Dec 9, 2008 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
While working with default partitioning plan ie. Guided partitioning, we might end up facing lots of issues. It creates / partition under LVM volume which makes it hard to recover the Operating system and other data stored in it as we couldn’t get into rescue...
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