Configurable Linux Distro You Might Want To Try – Fedora

2010-07-14 2 min read Fedora Linux

Rounding out the fall releases from the big cheeses in Linux comes <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 12. <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora is a popular <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux distribution funded by <a href="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat, the most profitable Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ae3af5" title="Company" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company">corporation active today. Fedora usually sits within the top three or four most popular distributions at <a href="http://distrowatch.com">distrowatch.com.

Much of the company and community work that goes into Fedora will find its way into <a href="http://www.redhat.com/rhel/">Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the commercial Linux version used by governments and <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000004e02d" title="Business" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business">businesses around the world. You might compare the relationship between Red Hat and Fedora to <a href="http://www.novell.com/linux/">Novell and <a href="http://www.opensuse.org/en/">openSUSE.

Are you swapped? Increase the performance of Linux machine.

2010-07-14 2 min read Fedora Linux

With the ever increasing cost of the Hardware, the amount of physical RAM available on the system is increasing day by day. For example, couple of years back, I had a system which was very high end Desktop with 256MB RAM and today I have a 2GB RAM Desktop. So, whats the point.

The Linux systems (right word should be kernel) are desiged to use both RAM and swap partition. Swap partition is a partition on Hard disk and is used mostly like RAM. Problem is that HDD access is always slower than RAM access and hence inherently, the system will work little slower even if you have enough RAM not to use swap. The term ”swappiness” is used to determine how the kernel should try to seam-balance between the use of RAM and swap. By default, most of the distro’s have a swappiness of 60. A higher value of swappiness means that the RAM will be swapped out faster.

solang – Photo collection viewer.

2010-06-25 0 min read Fedora Photo

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Name       : solang

Arch       : i686

Size       : 1.8 M

Summary    : A Photo Manager for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnome" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME

URL        : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/solang/

License    : <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_general_public_license" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPLv3+

Description: Solang is a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/free_content" title="Free content" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content">free photo manager that will act as a front-end for

directory based local storage as well as remote photo-storage

systems, as can be said, on the ”Cloud”. Basic editing support is

also planned as well as a small pipelaine for RAW processing.

The aim of this project is to break the performance charecteristics

of current popular photo management <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">softwares and provide a fast

and reliable alternative that does not place humongous demands on

user’s <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/hardware" title="Hardware" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware">hardware resources even to meet basic functionality.<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/ubuntu-1010-to-be-codenamed-maverick-meerkat.ars">Ubuntu 10.10 to be codenamed Maverick Meerkat (arstechnica.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-fedora-12-i686-gnome">The Perfect Desktop – Fedora 12 i686 (GNOME) (howtoforge.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2009/12/19/euphemism-for-lobbying/">Why GNOME Funding is Equivalent to Lobbying and Why Novell is Likely Against GPL Enforcement (boycottnovell.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/bb959a48-b5f0-4e5f-8997-6c86961e6eff/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b11.png" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

2010-06-25 4 min read Linux

Note: I am using this and definately this is a big improvement over the previous versions. Here is the blog from gnome blog:

After more than a year of heavy development, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/networkmanager" title="NetworkManager" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager">NetworkManager 0.8 was unleashed on the world a few weeks ago. While we obviously couldn’t make everyone happy just yet, this release includes a ton of great stuff. Much of it is under the hood, so while it won’t dazzle you in a blinding flash of light, it should still make your head explode.

Linux is just too open

2010-06-24 0 min read Linux

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The Problem with Linux is that it is forthright, open and honest. Now I know how much the editors here hate when I anthropomorphize an operating system, but it is fundamentally true.

Linux, in my view, remains almost too honest and too open.

cdargs – bash cd command with bookmarks and browser.

2010-06-22 0 min read Bash Learning Linux

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cdargs is a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/bash" title="Bash" rel="homepage" href="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html">bash shell cd with bookmarks and browser. Quite useful if you are developer or someone who use’s the bash shell very frequently

Name       : cdargs

Arch : i686 Version : 1.35 Release : 5.fc12 Size : 114 k Repo : installed From repo : fedora Summary : The shell cd with bookmarks and browser URL : http://www.skamphausen.de/software/cdargs/ License : <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_general_public_license" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPLv2</a>+ Description: Enables the user to quickly change <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/working_directory" title="Working directory" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_directory">working directory</a> by navigating cd arguments : and expanding the shell built-in cd with bookmarks and browser.

colors in bash -- script to display all the possible colors.

2010-06-06 3 min read Bash Fedora Linux

If you wanted to have colors in the bash output (including the colors in PS1-4), don’t you keep wondering how the color code would look on the terminal. So, I wrote this small script to show the complete color codes. This is how the output would look:

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And here is the script:

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      #!/bin/bash -<br /> #===============================================================================<br /> #<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;FILE: &nbsp;colors.sh<br /> #<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; USAGE: &nbsp;./colors.sh<br /> #<br /> # &nbsp; DESCRIPTION: &nbsp;Bash colors<br /> #<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; OPTIONS: &nbsp;---<br /> # &nbsp;REQUIREMENTS: &nbsp;---<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;BUGS: &nbsp;---<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; NOTES: &nbsp;---<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;AUTHOR: &nbsp;Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; COMPANY: &nbsp;Individual<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; VERSION: &nbsp;1.0<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; CREATED: &nbsp;09/21/2009 06:12:07 PM IST<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;REVISION: &nbsp;---<br /> #===============================================================================<br /> <br /> for c in `seq 0 255`;<br /> do<br /> t=5;<br /> [[ $c -lt 108 ]]&&t=0;<br /> for i in `seq $t 5`;<br /> do<br /> #Display the codes also for easier lookup in terminal<br /> <!--loginview start-->echo $i;${c}<!--loginview end--><br /> echo -e "<a class="zem_slink" title="Path (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29">\\</a>\e[0;48;$i;${c}m|| $i:$c `seq -s+0 $(($COLUMNS/2))|tr -d \'[0-9]\'`\\e[0m";<br /> done;<br /> done<br /> <br /> # setup_colors - Adds colors to array CC for global use<br /> # 30 - Black, 31 - Red, 32 - Green, 33 - Yellow, 34 - Blue,<br /> # 35 - Magenta, 36 - Blue/Green, 37 - White,<br /> # 30/42 - Black on Green \'30\\;42\'<br /> <!--loginview start-->function setup_colors(){<br /> declare -a CC;<br /> for i in `seq 0 7`;<br /> do<br /> ii=$(($i+7));<br /> CC[$i]="\\033[1;3${i}m";<br /> CC[$ii]="\\033[0;3${i}m";<br /> done;<br /> CC[15]="\\033[30;42m";<br /> R=$\'\\033[0;00m\';<br /> X=$\'\\033[1;37m\';<br /> export R X;<br /> }<br /> function display_colors(){<br /> for i in $(seq 0 $((${#CC[@]} - 1))); do echo -e "${CC[$i]}[$i]\\n$R"; done<br /> }
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unbound variable – bash completion not working and having issues with other stuff like command not found. (amit-agarwal.co.in)
Modifying the bashrc or bash startup files. (amit-agarwal.co.in)
Nature-Inspired Colors for Home Interiors (interiordecorating.suite101.com)
Dark and Light Blue Colors in Feng Shui (feng-shui-concepts.suite101.com)
Delete all files in a folder that don\’t match a certain file extension (amit-agarwal.co.in)

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