The problem in Fedora 16  Gnome was not showing the bluetooth devices and in fact it didn’t detect any. However, lsusb found them with no problems. There is a bug #695588 at RedHat and it looked like systemctl may have not started it.  You can correct these bugs very easly #systemctl status bluetooth.service bluetooth.service - Bluetooth Manager       Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service)       Active: inactive (dead)       CGroup: [...]

Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) released. It is based on the recently released Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)  and is powered by Linux kernel 3.0, X.Org 7.6 and GNOME 3.2, yes Gnome 3.2. It offers a set of extensions to gnome 3.2 for making the look native to gnome 2. The extensions set MGSE includes the Mint menu, bottom panel with applications minimized and desktop indicator, native system tray etc.. This make [...]

   Opensuse 12.1 has been released! This release bring awesome improvements include the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop as well as the newest from KDE, Xfce and LXDE; your own Cloud made easy with mirall; Snapper-shots of your file system. openSUSE 12.1 comes with the new GNOME Shell 3.2. We presented you with a taste of GNOME Shell on openSUSE 11.4; since then, many bugs have been squashed and numerous small [...]

If you format and do a clean install of new version of your distro, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuSE or any other, you must back up your home directory first, in which case you’ll have anything you had in Tomboy available to restore. There is no ~/.tomboy directory in latest linux distros. Turns out they’re now in /home/YourUserName/.local/share/tomboy So after your upgrade, just shut down Tomboy and restore all the .note files [...]

The Document Foundation has announced LibreOffice 3.4.4, an improved version of the free office suite. LibreOffice comes pre-installed on Ubuntu and many other Linux-based distributions.   This version comes with some bug fixes including * Recalculation of matrix formula dimension correctly. * Toggling grammar checkbox deletes sentence * Random crash while dropping texture * Handing in slideshow. (fdo#32861) [Thorsten Behrens] * Crash on closing document with footnotes. You can read [...]

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 [...]

Some of the most useful commands related to iptables to control the interface of network. Display filter table rules. #iptables -t filter -L Display nat table rules. #iptables -t nat -L Display raw table rules #iptables -t raw -L Display mangle table rules. #iptables -t mangle -L Delete all rules in the filter,nat,raw and mangle table. #iptables -t filter -D #iptables -t nat -D #iptables -t raw -D #iptables -t [...]

LAMP [Linux,Apache,Mysql,PHP] is the most winning combination in today s growning internet to develop dynamic PHP applications. The linux part is replaced by any linux distro like Ubuntu 11.10, Fedora 15, Opensuse 12.1, Debian etc… Linux is the most fast and safest platform to develop PHP applications for todays web. How to install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 11.10 with Mysql and PHP is the most popular question. The [...]

Gnome 3.2 Released on 28th September 2011. The new version includes lot of new features and bug fixes that criticized in gnome 3. Since the last version, 3.0, approximately 1270 people made about 38500 changes to GNOME. The Gnome 3.2 is based on GTK+3.2 and clutter toolkit 1.8 Online Accounts in Gnome 3.2 The Gnome 3.2 comes with more tighter integration with online services like facebook,twitter,google plus etc. You can [...]

The live Linux distro for media center PCs, Home Theatre PCs(HTPC), Media TVs released its version 2.0.According to developer Benjamin Zores, the team had been “struggling for months and years to design this v2.0 version, switching from one Media Center project to another”, and even creating its own before the group decided “to finally stick with the most powerful one, the reference: XBMC”. GeeXboX 2.0 includes version 10.1 “Dharma” of [...]

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 [...]

Google simply avoided firefox from its toolbar saying that the features provided by the toolbar are now available on browsers. But we cannot sync the bookmarks, view pagerank and more are not available without the google toolbar in firefox. And firefox started its rapid release schedule. The toolbar is supported upto firefox 4. Lot of people are not upgrading the firefox 3.6 due to drop of google toolbar. so how [...]

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 [...]

After a short delay Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux kernel 3.0. There is huge change in numbering 2.6.XX gone and 3.0 came. But no big changes or scary features. Regular changes of driver codes and updates. That is all. There was more excitement about the Linux Kernel 2.6.38 which brought notable feature such as ‘wonder patch’, which enhanced the speed and performance. Linus explains, “As already mentioned several [...]