Donnie Berkholz speaks with LinuxCrazy

Donnie Berkholz wrote: "The more time I spend in Gentoo, the more I realize that it's the individual developers who really drive most of our innovations. They don't happen because the council makes a decision. They happen because the developer, or a few of them, think that it sounds like a cool idea, and make it happen. ..."

"Making Gentoo great is my biggest goal right now, and greatness is a process. It's not a place. So you can't get somewhere and say you're great. You always have to keep striving for it. For a while we've been content to stick with the status quo instead of striving for greatness, but we have to change that and to always improve Gentoo."

Discuss here.

A Slacker Tries His Hand at Gentoo

Steve Husted wrote: I've been wanting to try Gentoo for some time, but always had to roll my eyes at the pages and pages of installation instructions. This time, however, I rolled up my sleeves and buckled down. Minutes later, I was on my way.

First off - I have used Slackware since version 1.0, and I have tried countless other distributions, including Red Hat, Mandrake, Slax, MiniSlack (Zen?), SuSE, Yoper, Linspire, Debian, PCLinuxOS, et al.

Debian releases weak OpenSSL

Luciano Bello discovered that the random number generator in Debian's openssl package is predictable. This is caused by an incorrect Debian-specific change to the openssl package (CVE-2008-0166). As a result, cryptographic key material may be guessable.

This is a Debian-specific vulnerability which does not affect other operating systems which are not based on Debian. However, other systems can be indirectly affected if weak keys are imported into them.

Debian with XFCE

Miles Baska wrote: I've not posted in many months -- seems I've not taken the time to write much of anything in fact. I seem attracted to Tumblr and Twitter -- I can share my ideas and finds much quicker there. This post is primarily a test message, then.

I've not given up on Linux, but I'm still seeking The Killer Desktop OS. Debian is my latest find, and with it XFCE. I grabbed a copy of the Debian Network Installation and tried it out on an old box (1.2G Celeron w/ integrated video). It found all the hardware and worked flawlessly, installing with the GNOME desktop. I had to tweak it a bit to get SAMBA installed and working, but once set up it actually worked seamlessly with my Windows shares (Windows saw Debian, Debian saw Windows). I then replaced GNOME with XFCE and I've not looked back.

Read more

Coders now can try mobile Ubuntu Linux

Canonical on Tuesday released its first publicly available developer edition of Ubuntu for mobile Internet devices.

Ubuntu MID works on two devices at present, the Samsung Q1U and the Intel Crown Beach development station for building devices using the company's Atom processor. It also can be run on ordinary computers through the KVM virtualization software. A MID--a concept Intel is aggressively promoting--is a mobile device larger and more like a regular computer than, say an Apple iPhone, but smaller than an ultraportable PC.

More from here.

First look: OpenSUSE 11 out, offers best KDE 4 experience

Novell announced the official release of OpenSUSE 11 yesterday. It's the latest version of the community-driven Linux distribution and includes significant new features like the KDE 4 desktop environment and the PulseAudio sound server.

Novell: openSUSE for All Linux Users

Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) is making a play for Linux users new and old with the release of its openSUSE 11 distribution.

Version 11 introduces an installer, improved package management and updated key open source packages.

The new distribution is Novell's attempt to put its best stuff out on the field as it ramps up the competition against Red Hat's Fedora and Ubuntu Linux in the growing Linux community.

Joe Brockmeier, openSUSE community manager, told InternetNews.com that openSUSE 11's strength is its targeting of end users making the switch from Vista. "We're also targeting the longtime Linux users," he added.

Read more.

Welcome to the EeePCLinuxOS

EeePCLinux OS does sound weird, but unique. Learn more.

It is my pleasure to announce a new USB Install Key creator for EeePCLinuxOS. For some of you more experienced Linux/Windows users it may look familiar. That is because this new installer is based off of UNetBootin. We've shortened the installable Linux LiveCD list down to just us and disabled Floppy capabilities. Overall though should hopefully offer a better experience for our Windows users. I would like to thank Wingers for his previous work on the installer this one replaces and for bringing up the fact that we needed a Windows installer in the first place.

Read more.

Nice PCLinuxOS Experience

Here's a nice PCLinux OS desktop experience from somebody who uses operating system on daily basis.

"The last time I looked at PCLinuxOS was version 0.92, which according to DistroWatch was about 3 years ago. I was asked to take a look at it again, so here I go.

"I'm aware that this version is pretty old by now (June 2008), but as of this writing it was the latest full non-beta version available. I don't like to rant on betas. I'm puzzled to see that there has been no obvious word given on when we can expect a new version..."

Read more.

CentOS 5.2 Releases

The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.2. Major changes in CentOS 5 compared to CentOS 4 include:

These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.3, Evolution-2.12, Firefox-3.0, Thunderbird-2.0, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.1.

Better desktop support with compiz and AIGLX.

Virtualization provided by the Xen hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager and libvirt.

Sabayon to simplify the construction of user profiles.

More from here.

CentOS updates Red Hat Enterprise clone

Love Red Hat Enterprise Linux and want the latest edition, but can't stand the company and refuse to give it a single red cent? You're in luck.

The open source CentOS project has released its latest RHEL clone in the wake of Red Hat's recent release of RHEL version 5.2.

Fedora Project Boards Elected

Being responsible for a distro OS technicalities, project track, events, marketing and councils  are not that easy task. Fedora, as a tradition had undergone a council shuffle and board member elections this past week. And finally, the names behind the much awaited Fedora Project Board responsible councils and leaders are

Red Hat takes on Windows with new desktop software

Never ending story of desktop operating system clashes are back. Red Hat Desktop created by one of the leading Linux OS distributor designed to empower desktop back-end systems. Read on.

Linux software provider Red Hat has announced the availability of a client application, Red Hat Desktop, designed for enterprises and government.

The product is part of the Red Hat Enterprise product line, which previously only provided software for back-end systems.

It's the first product aimed at firms' end users, and an open-source alternative to Microsoft's Windows platforms, which hold more than 90 per cent of the installed base for desktops in businesses. Read more.

Source: software.silicon.com

Red Hat profit climbs almost 7 pct in 1Q 2009

"We are off to a good start and on pace to deliver more major product releases this year than in any other period in Red Hat's history," Whitehurst said.

Red Hat said it earned $17.3 million, or 8 cents per share, in the first quarter, compared to $16.2 million, also 8 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier. Read more from here

Source: newsday.com

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Here you can find entries covering linux tips, howtos, tutorials and more of linux system administration posts. Most Fedora commands that would be tackled here are most likely compatible with RedHat, and CentOS too.

Fedora OS is only one of the many Linux distributions around. Most linux that I love is Fedora.

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This is all about Linux advocacy and Fedora stuff. Fedora is home grown community sponsored by RedHat.  It is not only for geeks, neither for newbies alone, Fedora is an OS milk for every users. The more you Fedora, the better it gets.

Anyone interested to contribute is more than welcome to contact me using the contact page.

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Fedora 9: Rsyslog - Most Advanced Log Server

Rsyslog is an enhanced syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL, PostgreSQL, failover log destinations, syslog/tcp, fine grain output format control, high precision timestamps, queued operations and the ability to filter on any message part. It is quite compatible to stock sysklogd and can be used as a drop-in replacement. Its advanced features make it suitable for enterprise-class, encryption protected syslog relay chains while at the same time being very easy to setup for the novice user.

With the latest Fedora 9 release, syslog daemon service has been replaced by rsyslogd. The reason for this is that rsyslog is the most advanced logging daemon service which offers a lot of great and beneficial features. While syslog daemon is old, rsyslog supports backward compatibility with syslog with additional specified parameters.

In simple words, Rsyslog simply helps administration of log database and history. Log messages can come from configured servers, hosts and even network devices like firewall, switches and cisco devices that supports logging feature.

Why Rsyslog is the most advanced system log service? Here are a complete list of its advanced features, don't forget the world's first highlights mentioned near ?

Rsyslog Features

* native support for writing to MySQL databases
* native support for writing to Postgres databases
* direct support for Firebird/Interbase, OpenTDS (MS SQL, Sybase), SQLLite, Ingres, Oracle, and mSQL via libdbi, a database abstraction layer (almost as good as native)
* native support for sending mail messages (first seen in 3.17.0)
* support for (plain) tcp based syslog - much better reliability
* support for sending and receiving compressed syslog messages
* support for on-demand on-disk spooling of messages that can not be processed fast enough (a great feature for writing massive amounts of syslog messages to a database)
* support for selectively processing messages only during specific timeframes and spooling them to disk otherwise
* ability to monitor text files and convert their contents into syslog messages (one per line)
* ability to configure backup syslog/database servers - if the primary fails, control is switched to a prioritized list of backups
* support for receiving messages via reliable RFC 3195 delivery (a bit clumpsy to build right now...)
* ability to generate file names and directories (log targets) dynamically, based on many different properties
* control of log output format, including ability to present channel and priority as visible log data
* good timestamp format control; at a minimum, ISO 8601/RFC 3339 second-resolution UTC zone
* ability to reformat message contents and work with substrings
* support for log files larger than 2gb
* support for file size limitation and automatic rollover command execution
* support for running multiple rsyslogd instances on a single machine
* support for TLS-protected syslog (both natively and via stunnel)
* ability to filter on any part of the message, not just facility and severity
* ability to use regular expressions in filters
* support for discarding messages based on filters
* ability to execute shell scripts on received messages
* control of whether the local hostname or the hostname of the origin of the data is shown as the hostname in the output
* ability to preserve the original hostname in NAT environments and relay chains
* ability to limit the allowed network senders
* powerful BSD-style hostname and program name blocks for easy multi-host support
* massively multi-threaded with dynamic work thread pools that start up and shut themselves down on an as-needed basis (great for high log volume on multicore machines)
* very experimental and volatile support for syslog-protocol compliant messages (it is volatile because standardization is currently underway and this is a proof-of-concept implementation to aid this effort)
* world's first implementation of syslog-transport-tls
* the sysklogd's klogd functionality is implemented as the imklog input plug-in. So rsyslog is a full replacement for the sysklogd package
* support for IPv6
* ability to control repeated line reduction ("last message repeated n times") on a per selector-line basis
* supports sub-configuration files, which can be automatically read from directories. Includes are specified in the main configuration file
* supports multiple actions per selector/filter condition
* MySQL and Postgres SQL functionality as a dynamically loadable plug-in
* modular design for inputs and outputs - easily extensible via custom plugins
* an easy-to-write to plugin interface
* ability to send SNMP trap messages
* support for arbitrary complex boolean, string and arithmetic expressions in message filters

World's First
Rsyslog has an interesting number of "world's firsts" - things that were implemented for the first time ever in rsyslog. Some of them are still features not available elsewhere.

* world's first implementation of IETF I-D syslog-protocol (February 2006, version 1.12.2 and above)
* world's first implementation of dynamic syslog on-the-wire compression (December 2006, version 1.13.0 and above)
* world's first open-source implementation of a disk-queueing syslogd (January 2008, version 3.11.0 and above)
* world's first implementation of IETF I-D syslog-transport-tls (May 2008, version 3.19.0 and above)

Rsyslog Installation

# yum -y install rsyslog

# service rsyslogd start

For further and wider readings, see Rsyslog.

Fedora 9: Fix No Flash Sound Issue with Firefox 3.0

Are you wondering why after a successful Fedora 9 Adobe Flash installation still produces a no sound issue with your Firefox browser? How to fix a no sound issue with flash-enabled websites?
Why Firefox 3 with adobe flash installed gives a no sound issue even your sound card works fine?

Here's a quick tip on how to fix a no sound flash issue with browser?

Fedora 9: Fix No Sound Firefox with Flash-Enabled Websites

After installing adobe flash plugin, simply install the needed flash library support modules via yum like so

# yum -y install libflashsupport

Restart firefox and test.

Enjoy.

Fedora 9: Disable IPv6 Completely

On previous post, I have covered on how to disable IPv6 on older Fedora versions. Considering major and rapid changes with Fedora rpm packages and installation manner, here again a quick post on how to disable IPv6 completely.

Disabling IPv6 protocol is only recommended if your network is not using IPv6 IP addresses and/or you are not offering any IPb6-based host services. I have heard stories about IPv4-based networks making their network a little bit slower than normal when IPv6 IP address is being enabled from their hosts. If you wish to disable your IPv6, read on.

Fedora 9: Disabling IPv6 Protocol Completely

1. Append the below lines to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.dist using your favorite text editor

alias ipv6 no
alias net-pf-10 off

IPV6 slows down the IPV4 environment if the router out the door does not understand IPV6 and for most people IPV6 is not needed.

2. Append the below lines to /etc/sysconfig/network

NETWORKING_IPV6=no

and from the same above file, make sure that you comment out or insert a # (sharp) sign before the word IPV6_DEFAULTGW that would make it look like

#IPV6_DEFAULTGW

3. Edit /etc/hosts and comment out the lines that shows

::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

to reflect

#::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

and restart your network service like so

# /sbin/service network restart

4. Save all changes and restart your Fedora box. Welcome to IPv6-less host club.

Enjoy.

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Additional SSH User Login Restrictions
Fedora First Boots
Administration and Management of Daemon Services

Fedora 9: Drumrolls with Linux Hydrogen

Fedora 9 includes more than 15,000 ready to install rpm packages. These rpm packages can be easily fetched using the Fedora's yum installer that install the needed application's dependencies as well. Fedora and Redhat rpm packages covers from simple linux binary tool, publishing tool to music and video editing applications. One of the great music tools Fedora is comprised of is Hydrogen.

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It's main goal is to bring professional yet
simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming. Hydrogen has user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical based interfaced powered by QT 3. This makes music operation easy as point, drag and click which gives great operational confidence of a user to the said software.


Besides from this, hydrogen covers a lot of features namely

* Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
* Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.

Sequencer and mixer

* Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
* Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
* 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
* Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
* Ability to import/export song files.
* Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
* Multiple patterns playing at once.

Other

* JACK, ALSA, PortAudio and OSS audio drivers.
* ALSA MIDI and PortMidi input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
* Import/export of drumkits.
* Export song to wav file.
* Export song to midi file.

Fedora 9: Hydrogen Installation
To install hydrogen to Fedora 9 sulphur, simply issue yum like so

# yum -y install hydrogen

Sample Screnshot:


More documentation can be found here.
Thanks to http://www.hydrogen-music.org/

Fedora 9: All in One Kopete Messenger Installation

I am sure almost everybody of us have heard the linux multi-messenger alternative, that comes with KDE environment. If you have not installed KDE as one of your alternative X logon environment, chances are kopete and its dependency libraries were not installed.

KDE and the Kopete developers had made and improved a lot of messenger's feature and intuitive interface design. One noticeable changes was the usage and management of messenger's avatar images. Avatar images adds up some sweetness to application's taste that believed to spice up little of using the said messenger. Pop up menu interface on choosing messenger identity is also added from its main interface design, which complete removes the standy icon that always sits down at the bottom and right hand side of kopete.

Kopete currently supports more than 11 major messaging system that is currently available on different OS platforms. You get to enjoy these highlights when using kopete messenger. Just a simple account setup is the only thing needed on accounts creation. Account creation simply requires you to feed authentication details into kopete such as login username and password, which is easy from the most part and does not require you to install any modules or external application at all compared to different platforms.

All in all, kopete had made a tremendous improvement on making linux messaging system a much more enjoyable experience.

Now, here's how to install Kopete messenger with Fedora 9 OS.

FEdora 9: Kopete Messenger Installation

The installation is really simple. Launch yum to fetch all the kopete network library modules via yum as shown

# yum -y install kopete

Enjoy.

Fedora 9: Filezilla 3.0 Installation

One latest application that covered a nice interface and logic revamp besides from Firefox is Filezilla.

As we all know, Filezilla has been around for quite some time and had proven to be very stable,
flexibile and reliable FTP linux application - with multiple major features a FTP user is seeking for. Filezilla does not only transfer files using the traditional file transfer mode, but it makes use of multi-threading live transfer mode giving you more control and flexibility. Noticeable, major menus are still available while the transfer is in progress. This simply shows how effective and simple FTP file transfer and operations are on using Filezilla.

Filezilla FTP Features
FileZilla is a FTP, FTPS and SFTP client for Linux with a lot of features:

- Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Cross-platform
- Available in many languages
- Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
- Easy to use Site Manager and transfer queue
- Drag & drop support
- Speed limits
- Filename filters
- Network configuration wizard


Fedeora 9: Filezilla FTP Installation

Worry not of dependency hell on rpm-based distro, yum solves it all. To install, simply

# yum -y install filezilla

and you're good to go.

Fedora 9: Root-Lock Your Desktop Screen

Am sure you have heard a lot of insecurities of running root as the default login user with GNOME or X. Maybe some Fedora users feel more in control of their system when running root as their default login user. Problem is, you cannot lock your desktop screen when you logged on as root.

Here's how to fix that.

Lock Desktop Screen While Being Root

Desktop screen can easily be secured and locked while you are gone and away from your desktop table by simply doing xlock fedora installation.

Xlockmore is a linux desktop screen saver linux application. Xlockmore helps securing your desktop privacy by locking and securing it with your screen saver with a username and passord. Xlock offers a lot of desktop screen saver ranging from bubbles, 3Ds, arts, animations and more. However, Xlock rpm package is not included with Fedora 9 shipments.

Fedora 9: Xlockmore Screen Installation

To install xlock more, simply launch yum to retrieve xlockmore from Fedora extra repos

# yum -y install xlockmore.i386 xlockmore-gtk.i386

Xlock Setup and Execution.


To create a single click xlock screen saver activation, create a shortcut by simply right-clicking the task bar and Adding a new shortcut command. Remember to supply a name to identify your shortcut. From there, the Xlock binary can be supplied by a similar binary command like

/usr/bin/xlock

You can supply xlock mode parameter as well, say for a pacman screen saver, the binary command should be like

/usr/bin/xlock -mode pacman

Click OK to save.

You can choose from several xlock screen saver mode shown below

ball    Shows bouncing balls.

bat     Shows bouncing flying bats.

biof    Shows 3D bioform.

blot    Shows Rorschachâs ink blot test.

bouboule Shows Mimiâs bouboule of moving stars.

bounce  Shows bouncing footballs.

braid   Shows random braids and knots.

bubble  Shows popping bubbles.

bubble3d Shows Richard Jonesâs GL bubbles.  May not be available depending on how it was configured.

bug     Shows Palmiterâs bug evolution and a garden of Eden.

clock   Shows Packardâs oclock.

coral   Shows a coral reef.

crystal Shows polygons in 2D plane groups.

daisy   Shows a meadow of daisies.

dclock  Shows a floating digital clock or message.

deco    Shows art as ugly as sin.

demon   Shows Griffeathâs cellular automata.

dilemma Shows Lloydâs Prisonerâs Dilemma simulation.

discrete  Shows various discrete maps.

drift   Shows cosmic drifting flame fractals.

cage    Shows the Impossible Cage, an Escher-like GL scene.  May not be available depending on how it  was configured.

euler2d Shows a simulation of 2D incompressible inviscid fluid.

eyes    Shows eyes following a bouncing grelb.

fadeplot Shows a fading plot of sine squared.

fiberlamp Shows a Fiber Optic Lamp.

fire    Shows a 3D fire-like image.  May not be available depending on how it was configured.

flag    Shows a waving flag image.  This may be text or a graphic image.  Default text is the hostname and operating system.

flame   Shows cosmic flame fractals.

flow    Shows dynamic strange attractors.

forest  Shows binary trees of a fractal forest.

fzort   Shows a metallic-looking fzort.

galaxy  Shows crashing spiral galaxies.

gears   Shows GLâs gears.  May not be available depending on how it was configured.

glplanet Animates texture mapped sphere (planet)

goop    Shows goop from a lava lamp.

grav    Shows orbiting planets.

helix   Shows string art.

hop     Shows real plane iterated fractals.

Success, have fun while your desktop screen saver is active.

Fedora 9: Sun Java on Fedora 9 Install HowTo

Fedora keeps on getting better and better. Redhat hell-dummy package management is forever gone together with conflicting library modules and inconsistent library usage. This has been possible and now more effective handled by yum rpm package installer.

For you to be able to browse java-enabled websites on Fedora 9, here's a quick howto on Sun Java installation on Fedora 9. Read on.

Fedora 9: Sun Java Installation on Fedora 9

1. Download Sun Java.

Sun Java executable binary package can be downloaded here. Download the Linux RPM version (self-extracting file) with current version of jre-6u6-linux-i586.rpm.bin.

2. Extract and execute rpm package.

After successful download, as root simply follow as shown

# chmod 700 jre-6u6-linux-i586.rpm.bin
# ./jre-6u6-linux-i586.rpm.bin

Answer and agree with Java's terms and agreement before you can proceed with full installation.

3. By default installation, there's a some kind of browser glitch with the installation resulting to Firefox misbehaviour loading java-enabled sites. To globally fix this, simply

# cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
# ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

4. Restart Mozilla Firefox 3.0 browser (default) and you're good to go.

Success. Enjoy.

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Adobe Flash Plugin on Fedora 9

Java IcedTea on Fedora 8

Sun Java and Java IcedTea Simultaneous Installation

Fedora 9: Fix Embedded Youtube Video Browser Problem

Are you experiencing problems viewing youtube video using Firefox 3.0 browser from Fedora 9? Tired of thinkering why the embedded youtube videos are not showing up from your Firefox browser? Eager to fix and enable firefox embedded youtube / multimedia plugins?

Below is an embedded Fedora 9 youtube video. If you are not seeing the video below, read on to fix that.

Here's how to fix them. Here's a browser plugin that enables embedded multimedia and audio-enabled website.

Fedora 9: Mozpluger- Multimedia Browser Plugin Installation via Yum
MozPlugger is a generic Mozilla plug-in that allows the use of standard Linux programs as plug-ins for media types on the Internet.

Mozplugger project was created with the goal of providing a minimalist, clean and stable general purpose Mozilla plugin module that allows the user to embed and launch their favourite application to handle the various different types of media found on the Internet.

Simply proceed with yum to install the mozplugger multimedia

# yum -y install mozplugger

Mozplugger Local Installation

Mozplugger ships with Fedora ISO CD and DVD. Zoom in to Packages folder and you will noticed that Fedora 9 ships with mozplugger rpm packages. You can then install mozplugger addon using rpm installer like so

# rpm -ivh mozplugger-1.10.1-1.i386.rpm

Head on to Youtube and enjoy those multimedia videos now.

Fedora 9: Adobe Flash Plugin Installation with Firefox 3.0

Problems doing installation of Adobe Flash plugin into Fedora 9's Firefox 3? Read on.

We all know that Fedora 9 ships with the latest Firefox 3 internet browser as the default internet browser. By default Firefox 3.0 rpm package, Adobe flash browser plugin is not installed by restrictions. Now, here's how to install Adobe Flash plugin into your Firefox 3.0 browser.

Fedora 9: Adobe Flash Browser Plugin Installation

Adobe flash plugin can easily be installed using yum by following the below steps:

1. Head on to Adobe site and download the rpm package for Fedora. As of this posting, the current adobe flash plugin rpm version is

flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386.rpm .

2. After successful download, simply install Adobe flash plugin package via rpm package installer like so

# rpm -ivh flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386.rpm

3. Restart your firefox and enjoy surfing flash-enabled websites.

Thanks to Adobe.

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Java IcedTea Installation on Fedora 8

Sun Java and Java IcedTea Simultaneous Installation on Fedora

Fedora 9: Automatically Select Fastest Yum Repo Source

Ever experience a slow connection when doing yum installation? Heard the fuzz of slow yum updates and turtle-speed rpm queries?

Worry not, here's a quick sky post on how to make yum faster than its first-run speed.

One way to make yum to yum faster is to automatically select the nearest and available yum repo mirror list and sort them according to their yum rpm query speed. When installed, this yum addon actually sorts your repo mirror list based on your current geo IP address location and internet download speed from those yum repo lists.

Considering that you have successfully installed livna, read on.

Here's a quick post on how to make your yum operates and yum faster.

Fedora 9: Yum-FastestMirror Installation

Simply, install yum-fastestmirror using yum as shown

# yum -y install yum-fastestmirror

Success, enjoy new Fedora 9 rpm packages using yum add on.

Head on to Yum-fastestmirror site.

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Fedora 9: Livna Repo RPM Installation

Here goes my first blog post after Fedora 9 desktop installation.

First and foremost, my blog posting is now powered by Fedora 9 OS muscles. At last, I am again excited, happy to roam new stuff and enjoy more fun with Fedora Core 9 OS. Since its first launch of Fedora Core 1, the said OS had served me more nice desktop tweaks, learning curve tricks and server deeds. The need for me to trickle of twisting Fedora tricks is back again.

Yes, I have just installed Fedora Core 9 into one of my desktop systems and here goes my first posts from it. I hope you can go along with me as I travel this Fedora Core 9 linux road.

Why Livna, you say?

First, since this post is concerned about fedora applications as desktop its desktop nerves, there is a need to install livna yum repo.

How to install livna repo to Fedora 9?

Most likely, rpm.livna.org provides many useful packages that can not be distributed in Fedora (previously known as Fedora Core and Extras) for one reason or another, including multimedia applications such as xine, VideoLanClient, video drivers for ATI and Nvidia cards. Head on here to know the various benefits of having livna rpm repo into your Fedora 9 repo list.

Fedora 9 - Livna Repo Installation

1. To get the latest repo addon packages, simply install livna repo rpm. Head on here , choose Fedora 9 repository RPM as your selected download.

2. You can install it directly from linux terminal as shown

# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm

Success, we now have livna repo rpm installed into Fedora 9.

Enjoy.

Fedora 9 Released

Been waiting for this for weeks. Am glad to announced that Fedora community had recently released its Fedora 9 OS.

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join.

The Fedora Project is out front for you, leading the advancement of free, open software and content.

What's new with F9 can be viewed here. Get your hot Fedora now.

Enjoy.

HowTo: Install YouTube Video Download in Fedora

This quick post should have been here since but I keep on forgetting to post this howto of downloading youtube via youtube downloader.

Download Videos from Youtube from Fedora box

Tired of watching and browsing the same old video files from Youtube? Do you wish to collect Youtube video clips of your favorite video files from youtube? Now, you can do it inside your Fedora box. If you wish to download video clip files from YouTube.com into your desktop, read on.

Youtube Download Installation

Simply install youtube video downloader called Youtube-dl. Youtube downloader is a command line-driven linux tool designed to download youtube videos into your desktop, you got it right. Download youtube videos from youtube into your Fedora box.

Simply folow this yum installation

# yum -y install youtube-dl

Youtube-Dl Usage

The video clip shown below is one of the fastest one-handed rubix cube solver that solves rubix cube in less than 18 seconds as you can see.



Now, if you with to download the above video using youtube video downloader, simply

# youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnRJROskpp4

File output would be saved as vnRJROskpp4.flv file format.

Play Youtube Video from your Desktop

To play video file from youtube, simply follow the vlc install procedures from here.
# youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BA9om9iy0c

Alternatively, you can use a browser to download youtube videos from here.

Enjoy viewing youtube video from your desktop!

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HowTo: Install FFMpeg on Fedora Linux

FFMpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital VCR. FFMpeg can encode in real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio and video, MPEG4, h263, ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash.

FFmpeg can generate a lot of different types of multimedia files with a variety of audio and video codecs inside. Sometimes these formats do not adhere to "accepted" specifications. Many open source multimedia playback applications have been specifically tuned to play all manner of multimedia files, no matter how incomplete or broken. However, certain widespread, proprietary multimedia applications, such as Microsoft Windows Media Player and Apple's QuickTime Player, are a little more rigid in the types of files they will accept.

FFMPEG Fedora Installation

Fedora repo supports FFMpeg. To install, simply issue

# yum -y install ffmpeg

FFMPeg Usage

# ffmpeg -i inputfile.ext outfile.mov
# ffmpeg -i inputfile.ext outfile.mp4
# ffmpeg -i inputfile.ext outfile.mpg


To convert a movie file into a playable AVI file
# ffmpeg -i inputfile.ext -vcodec msmpeg4 -vtag MP43 -acodec mp3 outfile.avi

To use Microsoft MPEG-4v2 video
# ffmpeg -i inputfile.ext -vcodec msmpeg4v2 -acodec mp3 outfile.avi

To create MPEG file with MPEG-1 video and MP2 audio.
# ffmpeg -i inputfile.ext outfile.mpg

To convert FLV to MPG using ffmpeg
# ffmpeg -i inputfile.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 outputfile.mpg

Yes, you can use MPEG to convert video files from one format to another format, with a different video quality and pass. File output from FFMpeg was also tested to work with Windows Media player, Apple Video Player, Quick Time players and more.

All is done.

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