Fedora Story

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Server Name Indication (SNI) is a TLS extension which makes the configuration of SSL-enabled name-based virtual hosts - that is secure virtual hosts which share the same IP address and port - possible. mod_gnutls is a module for Apache’s httpd web server which supports the SNI extension since the release of version 0.2.0 - that was 2+ years ago. This article describes how to implement such secure name-based virtual hosts with mod_gnutls. The test was performed on a server that runs Fedora 7.

O'Reilly and Associates has released a new title on Red Hat systems adminstration: Managing RPM-Based Systems with Kickstart and Yum. It describes how to automate OS installs and updates, so you can have more free time.

Stanton Finley (http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html) became famous for his series of Installation Notes between Fedora Core 3 and Fedora Core 5, but left a large void when he decided to switch over to Ubuntu when Fedora Core 6 was released. Toward that end, Dr. Gregory R. Kriehn (http://optics.csufresno.edu/) has a series of Fedora Core/Fedora Linux Systems Administration pages that aim to fill in the gap and expand upon the spirit of Stanton's web pages.

The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 7. CBI is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you. Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages.

Introduction

Fedora 7, as we all know, is an excellent distribution, but since it only includes free software, it lacks in multimedia performance esp. in proprietary formats and codecs (mp3, DVD etc). Most of you will probably follow the instructions in the unofficial Fedora FAQ. The info that follows has been adjusted for Fedora 7 from this very FAQ. It has all been tested on my new Fedora install and works fine.

This is a quick how-to for installing NVIDIA's 9755 driver in Fedora 7 and activating Beryl

Download the NVIDIA driver

As of this writting, the latest driver is 9755. Download from NVIDIA website.
The driver is a file like NVIDIA-Linux-x86-something.run, eg

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run

Copy it to a directory, e.g. /tmp

Fedora Core 6 has been installed on every computer of Fundación Nutrición y Vida, A.C. (Nutrition and Life Foundation) for 3 months now.

FNV is one of the best working foodbanks of all Latin América which helps 90,000 people to get food on daily basis.

Linux was introduced within 1 week to average individuals in the Fedorian way. They have been using it for 3 months now and they seem to get along with Fedora very well.

InitNG is one of the most often mentioned possible init replacements. Since it is available as a package in Fedora Extras it can be easily tested. Running on Fedora Core 6 it shows quite some bugs - but impressive speed improvements.

The Fedora Daily Package site (http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com) has been created to highlight a Fedora package each weekday (except for Wednesday, when a configuration or package detail is examined). It's a great way to hear about interesting and useful packages that aren't part of the default Fedora installation.