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 must needed extensions for gnome shell. There is a fantastic developer called fpmurphy developed lot [...]
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, gnome documents, gnome contacts etc.. Grub2 is now used by default and HAL has been [...]
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 user Set yum to keep cache Install yum tidy-cache plugin Add repositories – RPMFusion, Google, [...]
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 were Liege, Never, Gernsback, Rocky Ripple, Alpharabius, Panguipulli and Tubeteika. Fedora release names are required [...]
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 found a solution. It works great. First make sure the following packages are installed in [...]
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 fedora 16 includes lot of features Linux 3.0 Kernel The new kernel 3.0 is the [...]
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 Fedora 14. Now network manager is there to manage all the network activities in gnome. [...]
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. That is why Linux mint is so popular. It is coming with all the codecs [...]
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 /bin/bash $ dbus-launch This command will print DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID. We need to export them [...]
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 giving to the end user. The New features includes a completly updated gnome environment, the [...]
Fedora 15 Released. The original Gnome 3 Rocks….!!!!. But you need some tweak to adapt it to your working environment. Calling the overlay mode eveytime is not a very good option when you working on a live environment so gnome extensions will help you to simplyfy your work more easy. Some Essential commands to Tweak Gnome Shell in Fedora 15 nm-connection-editor – To edit your network devices and set connections. [...]
Fedora 15 Beta is available for download now. It is the first operating system with all the power and changes of gnome 3.0. Some majour changes are also coming to gnome 3.0. The desktop of fedora 15 will have icons. Fedora 15 comes with lot of great improvements. A complete gnome 3.0, Firefox 4 may be 5, Libreoffice 3.3, and much more. You can see the full list of features [...]
Even though Ubuntu 11.04 is moving away from Gnome shell with their own unity desktop interface Fedora 15 is moving with Gnome Shell, the revamped desktop of Gnome 3. It is matured enough for an end user to get everything from gnome. The major updates to fedora 15 are really amazing. From the features page we got that fedora 15 will include. LibreOffice, a “freer” fork of OpenOffice BoxGrinder, a [...]
From webupd8 I got a new theme for gnome shell. When checking that on devientart I foud a guy marked with pr09studio. In his gallery I found a whole lot of great Wallpapers and themes for your gnome . You can install these themes on ubuntu or fedora or Open suse or any other linux distro which support gtk themes. He says that “He is Leo B. and he is [...]
Now a days Web Development is a Hot topic in Linux world. For web development the best operating system is Linux based version. Whether Fedora, Ubuntu, Open SuSE, Mandriva, Slackware or Any Other linux version. The main considerations are it is away from common virus and malwares. For a complete internet savy developer need this option very important because a web developer using internet more hours. Frequent virus attacks will [...]
