Fedora Linux

There are six different runlevels in Linux, there could be more than six, but for compatibility reasons six are the default.

I have used RedHat and Debian based Linux, more specifically Fedora and Ubuntu and Debian itself, I have noticed that there is a difference in the runlevels on this different Linux distributions.

Well but first let's define the runlevels:

Runlevels in Linux are seven and they are:

- 0 = halt
- 1 = single user
- 2 = CLI, multi-user, no net
- 3 = CLI, multi-user, networked
- 4 = open
- 5 = GUI, multi-user, networked
- 6 = reboot

Just like The light weight Debian we can do the same with Fedora, I will use Fedora 8 and Fluxbox to install a light Desktop Linux.

First start the installation CD, I have chosen the text environment as, this is supposed to be a light installation, I am doing this on VMware with 128 Kbytes of memory assigned.

I always prefer to use the package manager instead of compiling from sources, mmh maybe compiling is more creates more efficient programs, than using binaries, but in that case, we better use Gentoo or Sabayon, but if we are using Debian/Ubuntu, or Centos/Fedora, I still think is better to use binaries.

Hi,

I finally finish installing KDE 4 on a Fedora, I used F7 for this, I am still trying to install it on CentOS, but in F7 it is installed.

check the threads on the forum, I am using the forum, to make it easier for you, to post your problems and interact if you are having problems installing or compiling KDE 4 on CentOS, Fedora, Debian or Ubuntu, I will later post the same how-to install KDE 4 on Debian and Ubuntu.

How to install KDE4 on Fedora

We the Linux users, are always interacting with Windows users, and one of the most difficult part of that interaction is the exchange of documents, that they create and edit mostly with Microsoft Office, and we use Open Office, and I think that even if they use OpenOffice, they will have access to the system's fonts, so, we need MS fonts installed in our Linux Operating System, in order to look at the documents in the same way they are looking at it.

Yesterday, The Fedora Project has released F8 (code name "Werewolf").

You can install Skype on Fedora from its repository, which for me is the best way to do it, specially to stay with the latest stable versions.

All you need to do is to create a file named skype.repo and lacated in:

/etc/yum.repos.d/

And this file should have this content.

[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc

once this file is saved all you need to do is run the next command

yum install skype

This worked for me in F7

Now it is possible to install Google software like picasa directly from repositories.

This is really good specially to stay with the latest versions of software using your normal application management tool.

Installing VMWare server on my new F7, and after running these commands,

yum install libx11-6 libx11-dev libxtst6 xinetd wget

yum install kernel-devel

yum install binutils-doc make manpages-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb libc6-dev-amd64 lib64gcc1 gcc-2.95-doc

yum install gcc

Fedora 7 or F7 (as it should be called now that it will not have the "C" on the name, so it will not be called FC7 but F7), has been just released in its stable version.

According to the developers this version is the biggest project they went into, and F7 will be the guide to follow on the next releases.

You can download it from

Torrents, which is preferred.

or from Mirrors .

Read below the release notes for this version, as take from Fedora Site:

FC7 was supposed to be released by May 24th as I have pointed before, now if you check again the FC7 schedule of Fedora Core 7 the new release day is May 31st.

so we will have to wait another week to have it running stable, I will keep you posted about this.

You can access a remote file system securely using sshfs and fuse which is a command to mount a remote filesystem encrypted through ssh.

This way you will be able to access remote files as if they were on you machine, just remember that if the connection between the computers is slow, the access will also be pretty slow.

Just on schedule, FC7 Test 4 have been released today, this is the last test and now we will start waiting for the final release.

If you are planning to download this Beta, remember to use is just as a Beta, upgrading from Beta to final is not always a good idea, on RedHat based Distros like Fedora and Centos.

I needed a command line BitTorrent client for my Fedora Core 6, and started to look for some options, I found ctorrent, which I could see has the options I may need, and as it is written in C should be fast, I know there is another one written in python also.

Let's see how to install and use this one. (ctorrent)

My friend from http://polishlinux.org, send me this links, that are a good complement to my post of choosing the Linux distro.

Read them at:

Hello, I will try today to share my little experience on using Linux, the
distribution if have tested are:

• Fedora
• CentOS
• Ubuntu
• Debian

Today I needed to install the Livna reposotory, and it is really easy, but maybe somebody out there may need some help, so I will write the two steps needed to have it installed and running

Installing the Livna repository for Fedora

All started in 1997 when in my job, administering the servers at the biggest ISP in Bolivia, I started to work with Red Hat Linux where we have sendmail, tacacs, apache, bind, among others services, well since 1998 I could not work with Linux because I needed windows at my new job, but I could back to it in 2005, of course I went to the RedHat site and look for a new distro to download, i found FC4 which I started to use, as my Desktop PC and also as my server.

Once I have a problem with a CentOS server (Could be the same on RedHat based). The HOSTNAME given on the instalation was not the reverse lookup name.

I solved with the help of the linux list, here is how.

Making your system a triple boot box, this can help you achieve this.