To add the install dvd media to yum list there is a small trick. The trick lies in the Yum Repos list, located in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo Check it out. Normally you have three entries: Fedora, a Debug branch, and a Sources branch. The primary Fedora branch configs look something like this (I’m using Fedora 12 in my example) : [fedora] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch failovermethod=priority baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever /Everything/$basearch/os/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever& arch=$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 [...]
There are lot of great tools available in gnome to send messages over network or a local host computer . There are 3 Options 1.zenity – It will display a default ok box on the screen 2.notify-send -This will give a Popup box in the system tray 3. xmessage – This will give a box like the first one. zenity zenity – display GTK+ dialogs zenity --info --text "message here" [...]
You can recover MySQL database server password with following five easy steps. Step # 1: Stop the MySQL server process. Step # 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) server/daemon process with the –skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password Step # 3: Connect to mysql server as the root user Step # 4: Setup new root password Step # 5: Exit and restart MySQL server Here are commands [...]
Setting up mysql password is one of the essential tasks. By default root user is MySQL admin account. Please note that the Linux / UNIX login root account for your operating system and MySQL root are different. They are separate and nothing to do with each other (indeed some admin removes root account and setup admin as mysql super user). mysqladmin command to change root password If you have never [...]
Fedora 12 code named Constantine released with lot of great features. Main features are a 2.6.31 Linux kernel and GNOME 2.28 or KDE 4.3 desktop. The Fedora free Linux distribution is sponsored by Red Hat. Among the new features of Fedora 12 are extended hardware support for kernel based mode setting (KMS), 3D support for recent ATI Radeon cards, and the incorporation of KSM, Kernel Samepage Merging, for more efficent [...]
The Mozilla community has now release Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 for download. This beta version of the next version of Firefox is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users. The Mozilla community appreciates your feedback and assistance in testing this preview of the next version of Firefox. Your beta software will update itself periodically, and eventually will be updated [...]
Bluefish says “Bluefish is a powerful editor for experienced web designers and programmers. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, but it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites”. It is a great HTML editor for creating web pages. Still under development but rapid prgress. Next majour release expected is 2.0. Bluefish 1.3.8 unstable released with lot of bug fixes and new features. 1.0.7 is the stable release. You can [...]
After the great release of 9.10 Mark Shuttleworth announced the next release of Ubuntu 10.04 as code named Lucid Lynx. Lucid will scheduled for release in April 2010. This version is highly significant because it will be offered with long-term support (LTS). This means that security updates will be available for five years for servers and three years for desktops. Regular Ubuntu releases are only supported for eighteen months. The [...]
