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Creative Commons LiveContent CD and Fedora

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:15:30 -0700

LiveContent is a collaborative initiative to showcase Creative Commons-licensed media as well as FOSS. LiveContent is a joint effort between Creative Commons and Fedora, Red Hat’s community-based open source platform.

The LiveContent CD features a variety of Creative Commons-licensed media including audio, video, image, text and educational resources. Users can explore this free and open content and learn more about CC-friendly organizations like Jamendo, Blip.tv, and Flickr.

SSL-enabled Name-based Apache Virtual Hosts with mod_gnutls

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:34:57 -0700

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.

Book on Kickstart and Yum

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:49:10 -0700

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.

New Fedora Core/Fedora Linux System Administration, Installation Notes, and HOWTO Pages

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:31:44 -0700

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.

Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 7

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:54:27 -0700

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.

Fedora 7: Installing multimedia Support

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:25:39 -0700

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.

NVidia Driver and Beryl on Fedora 7

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:03:22 -0700

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

Linux and foodbanking

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:01:34 -0700

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 on Fedora

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:34:14 -0700

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.

Fedora Daily Package

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:44:10 -0700

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.

Announcing Fedora Embedded Systems Developement SIG

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:07:01 -0700

On March 14., the Fedora Embedded Systems Development SIG was
announced: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2007-March/msg00199.html

Free software is becoming a major player in the field of embedded
systems. From real-time Linux, to GNOME-based user interfaces on the
Nokia Internet Table and the OLPC, free software covers all parts of the embedded
world.

But until now, developers of embedded software have been forced to

Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2007

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:21:10 -0800

Ok, now I am back in my life and is time to write down my qdventures on CLT 2007.

I started on Friday morning in Stuttgart at the RedHat Office with a coffee break waiting for Sascha who gave me then some Hardware for our Booth - thanks to Florian and Sascha for the short unbureaucratic help.

Then I head towards another CoffeeBreak to Olli and gave him a Fedora Shirt for printing a fedora banner for Fosdem last weekend. I have set up some router and server configurations for him. Then I continued the journey from Stuttgart to Chemnitz 450km and I arrived at 06:00 PM.

Xara Xtereme

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:02:55 -0800

Do you remember a program called ArtWorks for Acorn RISC OS, produced by a company Computer Concepts?

If so then you might be pleased to know that a follow-up, Xara Xtereme has been ported to Linux and open sourced...

see: http://xaralx.org/

ArtWorks was a superb graphics package for its time and Xara XL looks pretty good... could be very useful for web development, posters, etc.

FOSDEM 2007 KickOff & Pictures

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:06:07 -0800

The Fosdem 2007 has started today but the important work has started yesterday. We the European Ambassadors met Spot, Max and his girlfriend(Martha) at Brussels, there was much discussion about the project, we met the CentOS People for dinner and now we are building up the booth (thanks Olli for printing banners in the last minute) and will start our FudCon in a few hours. The first pictures (and i will update the pictures) are at

Missing dependencies for ekiga-2.0.5-2.fc6

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:12:10 -0800

Getting Missing Dependency Error during yum update?
--> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: opal >= 2.2.5 for package: ekiga --> Processing Dependency: libpt_linux_x86_r.so.1.10.4 for package: ekiga --> Processing Dependency: pwlib >= 1.10.4 for package: ekiga --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: opal >= 2.2.5 is needed by package ekiga Error: Missing Dependency: libpt_linux_x86_r.so.1.10.4 is needed by package ekiga