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Fedora

How To: Wireless LAN with Broadcom BCM4312 in Fedora 11

July 27, 2009

Fedora 11 does have support for Broadcom wireless drivers, but it didn’t really work out on a friend’s laptop. Finally we got it working and I thought I’ll just note the steps down. Below are the three easy steps you need to take to make it work properly. Step 1 Install needed packages [root@fedora ~]$ [...]

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Info: ATI Drivers 9.7 does not work in Fedora 11 (2.6.29+)

July 24, 2009

Yesterday, AMD released ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 Proprietary Linux x86/x86_64 Display Drivers. I happened to checkout the website today. Initially I was very excited about it hoping that these drivers will work with 2.6.29+ and I’ll be able to use my ATI Radeon HD 3200 which is lying dead since a fortnight or so. I downloaded [...]

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How To: Boot Fedora Faster

December 9, 2008

Note: These tricks apply to any Linux based OS. But I have tested them only on Fedora, so can’t say whether they’ll work on other Linux(s). My current Fedora installation is now almost one and a half years old. Yes. I am still using Fedora 7 I have Fedora 10 on my other machine. Coming [...]

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Info: Fedora 10 – Cambridge Released

November 26, 2008

Fedora 10 aka Cambridge is available now. Get your copy of Fedora 10 now. Well, if normal Fedora, doesn’t suite you, checkout the Fedora 10 spins and get whichever suits you Also for KDE fans, there is a special corner. After you finished downloading, burn the ISO and check the completely detailed Fedora 10 Installation [...]

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How To: Install Fedora without CD or DVD

August 26, 2008

Note: If you are new to Fedora/Linux, I highly recommend the book “Fedora Linux Toolbox” [amazon-product alink="0000FF" bordercolor="000000" height="240"]0470082917[/amazon-product] Use Case When you don’t have CD / DVD drive on your system. You have Fedora DVD but your system has only a CD Drive. You don’t want to waste time and resources in burning iso [...]

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How To: Test Fedora Pre-release

August 17, 2008

If you want your Fedora to be best ever, just grab a copy of Fedora DVD or live iso from here and test the features you like. Checkout the Fedora 10 feature list and test as many as possible. If you don’t have access to optical media (cd/dvd rom) and want to try the live [...]

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Review: KDE4 – Is it worth upgrading?

January 14, 2008

KDE4 was released on Jan 11, 2008. I noticed the rpms for Fedora on rpmfind.net on Jan 13. It was a big trouble to get packages one by one keeping in mind the dependencies. I tried Yum with rpmfind repo but it didn’t work out. Then I used the server where my domain is hosted. [...]

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Review: Fedora 8 – Warewolf

November 10, 2007

I installed Fedora 8 32 bit from a leaky mirror on Nov 7th and I just had a very bad experience with it. Nothing seemed to be working. But I can’t accept that. As I am a hardcore fan of Fedora, I just can’t sit back and say “ah, Fedora 8 sucks, i am not [...]

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How To: Install Eclipse in Fedora 7

November 8, 2007

I have decided to stick with Fedora 7 due to the bad experience with Fedora 8 last night and also the difficulties in moving the servers to new os that I am running on Fedora 7. As I wanted to work with Padma in my spare time, so need a good IDE that can handle [...]

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Review : Fedora 8 Test 3

October 5, 2007

Fedora 8 Test 3 aka Fedora 7.92 is out now and available for download from Fedora mirrors. I downloaded the Test 3 Live CD iso and just tested in Virtual Machine qemu. Believe me, Fedora 8 is going to be a huge improvement in basic graphics in Fedora. The graphical interface is far better than [...]

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