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Ubuntu 10.04 Code Named Lucid Lynx Announced

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. TheRead More…

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Post Installation Guide

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala is Out . Download Now from Ubuntu Website. After Installation Just Tweak the ubuntu for more prettier performance. New installer, new artwork (themes, icons, wallpapers, login screen), ext4 filesystem, grub2, new software versions (Gnome 2.28.1, Firefox 3.5.3), the anticipated Software Center (instant access to thousands of free and open-source applications) and many many other improvements, bug fixes and changes are presented in Ubuntu 9.10. Download UbuntuRead More…

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Gnome Shell – Your Next Desktop Environment – On Fedora 11

A Majour Update of Gnome 3.0  is Gnome-shell. The Total Redesign of Gnome Desktop with cool and great features. You can test it now. In My fedora 11 Machine I tested that . This is my experience. Sad Part – Installation I Never got a Yum install or any rpm for gnome-shell. So i decided to source that and compile. This the most sad part. It’s important to note rightRead More…

Gnome 3.0 Quick Tour – Coming on Ubuntu 10.04, Fedora 13

Gnome 3, which will be available to install in Ubuntu 10.04, Fedora 13 will mark the first radical change to the Gnome Desktop since it’s inception, thanks to it’s “new” interface ‘Gnome-Shell’. Doing Things Better On first glance, the Gnome 3 Desktop doesn’t seem all that different from the current default Gnome set-up. You’ll notice there is no bottom taskbar and the top panel has been rearranged somewhat. It alsoRead More…

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Essential Regular Expressions for VIM Editor in Linux

VIM (Vi IMproved) is a programmers editor in linux. Current version 7.2.148 . It support multiple programming languages like PHP,HTML,CSS,Javascript etc … Its Regular expression performance is amazing. You can run through thousands of lines of database data and remove unwanted commas or You can quickly create an html link list of websites which contain a hunbered or thousand of website address. In VIM you can open files near 1GBRead More…

Change Fedora 11 Login Screen to KDE login screen

GDM in fedora 11 is not configurable. KDM – KDE Display manger offers stunning interface with themes To change to KDM make a file in /etc/sysconfig/ ie – must be root [root@itpublic etc]# vim /etc/sysconfig/desktop DESKTOP=”GNOME” DISPLAYMANAGER=”KDE” put these lines in it . Save Logout If not working Take look at /etc/X11/prefdm Have Fun —! Related Keys:kdm gdm change fedora 16,  change css login fedora,  fedora kde login page change, Read More…

Fedora 10 startup – Plymouth Themes

The default startup of fedora 10 is in text mode a blue progress bar. It uses the plymouth startup manager for better booting and reduce boot time. If you can wait for a litte more time then plymouth can configure for a graphycal startup with great animation. for that go and edit the grub.conf file .dont forget to backup this file before editing # vim /boot/grub/grub.conf kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=87ccfef3-cb97-47d0-9293-03b5954b9e27Read More…

Install Compiz fusion in fedora 10

compiz-fusion is a great tool in linux. it provides 3d desktop with stunning effects. for install compiz fusion in fedora 10 1) Remove Old Compiz Package #yum -y remove compiz 2)Install the Livna repository #rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm 3)Install the new compiz-fusion with lots of pluggins #yum -y install compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-gnome compiz-fusion-extras compiz-fusion-extras-gnome compizconfig-backend-gconf compiz-manager gnome-compiz-manager ccsm fusion-icon fusion-icon-gtk emerald emerald-themes 4) Startup configuration Go to: System -> Preferences ->Read More…

How to Download RPM Package and its dependencies using Yum

Yum is a great tool to install packages in fedora. If we download a package and its dependencies then we can use these downloaded rpms to install in a system which is not connected to internet. for download packages and its dependencies using yum we need a package called yum-downloadonly download from here ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/Packages/yum-downloadonly-1.1.18-2.fc10.noarch.rpm and install. This will add two options to yum commnad 1. –download only 2.–downloaddir=/path/to/dir usage isRead More…

Fedora 10 Linux Review and Download Now ..

Latest relese of fedora linux operating system released yesterday. fedora 10 features excellent experience for end user. fedora 10 consists of different flavours for various kind of users. Current realese includes Latest Gnome 2.24 Desktop environment,Latest Open office release 3.0,Gimp 2.6 with excellent interface and a easy software installer and updater called PackageKit. Flavours Fedora 10 comes with Gnome Live CD and KDE Live CD.And LXDE [Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment]Read More…

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