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Upgrade to Fedora 17 from 16.

15 May 2012, 9:01 pm

As usual time in couple of days to upgrade to Fedora 17. Release schedule is for 05/22 and so its just around the corner. So, if you are looking at upgrading using yum, then make sure that you visit this page. There are some changes in latest version that will not allow you to upgrade [...]

Filed under Fedora. Tagged Booting, Distributions, Fedora, Linux, Operating Systems, rpm, upgrade, Yellowdog Updater Modified

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Display X applications from virtual terminals

3 May 2012, 5:35 pm

Here is a script that can help you set the proper envirionment to start a gnome-shell from one of the terminals. #!/bin/bash – #=============================================================================== # # FILE: xenv.sh # # USAGE: ./xenv.sh # # DESCRIPTION: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging # # # OPTIONS: — # REQUIREMENTS: — # BUGS: — # NOTES: — # AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka), [...]

Filed under Fedora, Gnome. Tagged amit agarwal, David Siegel, Desktop environment, Gnome, gnomeshell, List of Ubuntu releases, Operating system, Pgrep, ubuntu

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colors in bash scripts

30 April 2012, 9:22 am

I have been trying to understand the color codes for bash for a pretty long time, but somehow never got time to understand this clearly. So this time around when I was writing a script to analyze some logs. I thought I will give it a go and finally understood some part of this. So, [...]