This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 9 system to
Fedora 10 (which was released yesterday – November 25, 2008). The
upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.
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VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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apt-rdepends searches through the APT cache to find package dependencies. apt-rdepends knows how to emulate the result of calling apt-cache with both depends and dotty options.
By default, apt-rdepends shows a listing of each dependency a package has.It will also look at each of these fulfilling packages, and recursively lists their dependencies.
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Fedora 10, codenamed Cambridge, has been released! Fedora is an RPM based Linux Distribution, an Operating System in other words, developed by the community supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Officially it contains only free and Open Source software. Some of the new features it has come with are Gnome 2.24, KDE 4.1, [...]
In your Ubuntu machine, when you click on the ‘X’ (close button) on any applications, you will find that some of them will exit while some will minimize to the system tray. Unless you know the capability of the particular application, you will have to guess every time you click on the X button whether [...]
As an administrator you may be face with the task of constantly monitoring web servers, mail servers, ftp servers, etc. Basically, your organization wants all of their servers up and running all of the time. Nagios 3 offers an easy set up and configuration to make this happen so that you can
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Whatever your reason for changing any users password, this simple howto will surely satisfy that need. The only way to prevent this currently is with full disk encryption. Here is how you change windows password within Ubuntu.(Other distro’s may have this nifty app in their repos as well)
You can either use your livecd or hdd.
sudo
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One of the first things I do for my desktops is set them with a static IP. Below is how I go about it.
First uninstall Network Manager. This will just simply get in the way.
Edit as root:
/etc/network/interfaces
and adjust it to your needs (in this example setup I will use the IP address 192.168.0.100):
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For those who are dealing with writing or design projects, it is common for you to come across a font that your applications cannot support. It could be a Macintosh font, a bitmap font or a open type font (otf), for some reason or another, you just can’t get your application to read it. In [...]
This tutorial shows how you can back up and restore hard drives and partitions with CloneZilla Live.
CloneZilla Live is a Linux Live-CD that you insert into your computer;
it contains hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tools similar
to Norton Ghost. The created images are compressed and can be
transferred to a Samba-, SSH-, or NFS server [...]
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install
VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 8.10 desktop system. With VMware Server
you can create and run guest operating systems (“virtual machines”)
such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system.
This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the
same hardware which saves a [...]
vzdump is a backup and restore utility for OpenVZ VMs. This tutorial shows how you can use it to clone/back up/restore virtual machines with vzdump
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If you regularly explore the more nefarious side of the internet, you’ll be familiar with .nfo files. NFO files are ASCII Art in the CP437 codepage, and used by various distribution groups to mark the fact that they released this particular file – like a label or logo. Being an Ubuntu user you’re probably
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Although using public key authentication instead of passwords is a great method for increasing the security of SSH transfers, transferring SSH identity keys can be a royal pain. First, you create your key pairs; then, you copy the public key into the correct locations on all the machines you want to log into. The keys [...]
Virtual memory is one of the most important, and accordingly confusing, pieces of an operating system. Understanding the basics of virtual memory is required to understand operating system performance. Beyond the basics, a deeper understanding allows a system administrator to interpret system profiling tools better, leading to quicker troubleshooting and better decisions.
The concept of virtual [...]