Fedora by default only supports free software, which is awsome.. but if you have some music in a non-free or non-OSS codec, you still want to play it.. if your using Amarok then just: sudo yum install xine-lib-extras-freeworld NOTE: The above package isn’t available in the default Fedora repositories, it…
This is a simple post, I’ve been benchmarking some MySQL storage engines at work, and sometimes from the command line I want to make sure I know what storage engine I’m using. Its actually very easy, but for some reason I keep forgetting the command. This post is for memory…
I know, I know, most Fedora users probably are giving me the evil eye as they read this, but I find this tip useful when something on my desktop machine isn’t behaving properly and I want to see if it’s SELinux causing the behaviour, or if I want to stop…
There is an Australian FTP RPMFusion mirror: baseurl=ftp://mirror.transact.net.au/rpmfusion/free/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ baseurl=ftp://mirror.transact.net.au/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ For updates: baseurl=ftp://mirror.transact.net.au/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ baseurl=ftp://mirror.transact.net.au/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ NOTE: This purpose of this post is simply for future reference.
By default Fedora 12 doesn’t install Sun’s Java, and it isn’t in the repository. This isn’t a mistake, in fact I think this is a good decision! Fedora is only dealing with free open source software. You can add other repositories to give you the extra non OSS software you…
Intro Over the years I have been turning my desktop into a NAT router.. why for virtual machines of course! If your using 1 virtual machine the virtual machine software does it for ya, but when you want to simulate your own virtual network, separate from the LAN your desktop…
By default Fedora 12 comes with the nouveau driver.. which is awesome, but my machine at work needed a bit more video card grunt so I needed to install the Nvidia driver. Now I’m new to Fedora.. as in installed it an hour before I wrote this post, so thought…
FUSE (Filesystem in userspace) gives not only non privileged users a little more power, but also allows file systems that for legal reasons cannot be linked to the kernel life on a Linux system. Thanks to this fuse layer, you can access gmail as a harddisk, ssh mount devices, and…
Chris sent me a link to this article. It’s quite a good read, it’s not bagging out Windows per say, but makes a great point about habit and how hard software is. A lot of you out there have a bad image of Linux, thinking it’s too hard and that…
I think the title says it all, I was just checking something at work and needed to run one of our Java apps using the command line, I did the standard: java -cp jarfile1.jar:jarfile2.jar au.gov. and hit tab key twice out of habit and to my surprise bash had checked…