Fedora
Fedora 12 demonstrates sandbox for desktop applications
2010/01/03
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) specialist and Red Hat developer Dan Walsh has souped up the security …
query and downgrade selected packages based on version or repository
2009/12/24
If you have worked on rpm based distro then you know how difficult it is to downgrade packages. And unluckily I upgraded some packages to fc12 and was still on FC11. Completely my mistake while doing …
EncFS – Simple article to use Encrypted filesystem in Linux
2009/12/24
A nice article here EncFS is an easy-to-use, command-line tool for storing information in encrypted form. It’s not really a file-system, but it pretends to be one at the CLI. If you’ve been searching …
Chrome – Chromium on Linux (repo)
2009/12/19
Fedora people put up a repo for the chrome web browser and it is quite frequently updated. All you need to do to install the browser is following: […] sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/chrome.repo …
gnome-shell and gnome-do on F11 Screenshots
2009/12/02
Here are some screenshots of gnome-shell : <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screenshot_0011.jpe"><img class="size-full wp-image-1246" …
Using snmp trap receiver on Fedora (Linux)
2009/11/25
First off install the net-snmp things: […] sudo yum install net-snmp net-snmp-utils […] After that it will run out of the box with the command: […] sudo snmptrapd -A -d -n -Lf …
internal error from PackageKit — packagekit Error Type: <type ’exceptions.TypeError'>
2009/11/25
If you get the below error then there is a bug files <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476352" target="_blank">here. […] Error Type: Error Value: …
RPMFusion release for YUM.
2009/10/17
For people who have used yum on Fedora, you must have seen that couple of packages that you require are on Livna and couple of them on DAG and some others on FreshRPMs and Dribble. And for those of …
Play video in Fedora.
2009/10/03
Found <a href="http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=28153">here.<div class="smallfont"> How to multimedia xmms, rythmbox, mplayer, video, etc. <hr …
Boot Linux Over HTTP With boot.kernel.org (BKO)
2009/10/01
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category […] This tutorial shows how you can <a …
top command with rc to make it more useful and beautiful.
2009/09/17
Just for fun, somedays back I was reading the top command. This command is something that I have been using since long time and have never read the man page so I thought let me do that. And yes, it …
Managing your remote site locally – sitecopy.
2009/06/12
If you are managing a remote site, web server that you do not have direct access to (terminal or ssh) and you have to do it with cpanel, then I know how much pain it is. I had the same issue until …