The next great Fedora 17 is releasing on end of May 2012. They slipped the schedule one more week for a last minute fix. So how to upgrade to Fedora 17. The method is very simple but dont forget to backup your existing system to an external hard drive or something before starting the upgrade. …
Fedora 17 Code named Beefy Miracle Alpha released on February 28 2012. Live CD Images for testing are available now. The new fedora comes with latest Gnome Shell and Gnome 3.4 and KDE 4.8 Fedora 17 is prepared with lot of new featues and enhancements. Some features are for enterprise customers only. But lot of …
Tweaking gnome 3.2 gnome-shell is essential for everyday computing. Need Desktop Icons, Need all buttons, install themes, change wallpapers frequently etc. are essential needs. For new users the overlay mode of gnome shell, dash is little bit confusing first time. Also need the Alt+Tab, Weather extension, System Monitor, Calendar integration, Places menu, Applicaitons menu are …
Fedora 16 codenamed Verne released. This time the greatest update is the new Gnome 3.2, the evolution of the new gnome platform to next level and KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.7. The new kernel 3.1 added, latest Libreoffice and Firefox are usual updates. On Gnome 3.2 you will get sushi, a default preview applicaiton for nautilus, …
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Fedora Utils is a “post installation” script for Fedora. By Using this you can install applications that are not available in the main Fedora repositories and tweak various settings of your fedora installation. This require a good internet connection and good download speed. Fedora Utils features: Add current user to sudoers Enable autologin for current …
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Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith announced the results of the voting on Fedora 17. The next major release after Fedora 16 will be codenamed as Beefy Miracle. A campaign had grown around the “Beefy Miracle” name – which had previously been suggested for Fedora 16 – with mascot and beefymiracle.org web site. The other candidate names …
I came across a problem when to connect a Tata photon plus (Huawei EC156) Modem in Ubuntu. You can use the same method in fedora. By default it is not recognizing in ubuntu. When I plugged in the blue light starts blinking but not taken by the default network manager . On ubuntu forum I …
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The Fedora 16 Roadmap is set. The version is codenamed ‘Verne’ named after Jules Verne. It comes with even more great features. After the dispute with Ubuntu and Gnome team fedora considered as a decent rock solid distribution with Gnome Shell interface. Fedora 15 performed with an unbreakable desktop than unity. The new features of …
I have a small inetwork in my home. We have two internet connections one wired line and other is my internet dongle. I used wired line most. One day I got stuck with that and decided to share my dongle to all others. I used a script called Nat script to share the connection in …
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Install restricted extras and utilities in Linux system is a real pain and time consuming. We are saying that all the hardware drivers are taken in linux automatically but we want to install mp3 support, rar support, acobat reader and lot more … also it require a good internet connection and good command line knowledge. …
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We cannot change the theme of Login screen of Gnome 3 GDM. We can only change the background image of the login screen. If you change that frequently then you will get a fresh feel of the operating system. I tried this on Fedora 15 and worked well GDM Customization # su – gdm -s …
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Fedora 15 is released with more great features. Above All gnome 3 Rocks…!!!. Fedora is the complete distribution with the full installation of a working copy of gnome 3.0 and Gnome shell. Ubuntu’s Controversal movement away from gnome shell to unity started lot of discussions. But now its time for gnome to prove what they …
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