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Getting Gnome Shell going for Fedora 16 running in VirtualBox

December 5, 2011 6 Responses Shortlink

There are a number of complaints out there about how hard it is to get GNOME Shell running for a Fedora 16 installation in a VirtualBox virtual machine. As with earlier versions of Fedora, preparation remains a matter of having [...]

GNOME 3 in Fedora 15: A Case of Acclimatisation and Configuration

GNOME 3 in Fedora 15: A Case of Acclimatisation and Configuration

May 29, 2011 8 Responses Shortlink

When I gave the beta version of the now finally released Fedora 15 a try, GNOME 3 left me thinking that it was even more dramatic and less desirable a change than Ubuntu’s Unity desktop interface. In fact, I was [...]

On upgrading from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14

November 7, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

My Fedora box recently got upgraded to the latest version of the distribution (14) and I stuck to a method that I have used successfully before and one that isn’t that common with variants of Linux either. What I did [...]

Ridding Fedora of Unwanted Software Repositories

November 4, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

Like other Linux distributions, Fedora has the software repository scheme of things for software installation and updating. However, it could do with having the ability to remove unwanted repositories through a GUI but it doesn’t. What you need to do [...]

Securing MySQL in Fedora

December 4, 2009 1 Response Shortlink

Ubuntu users must be spoilt because any MySQL installation asks you for a root password, a very good thing in my opinion. With Fedora, it just pops the thing on there with you needing to set up a service and setting [...]

Command Line Software Management

December 2, 2009 1 Response Shortlink

One of the nice things about a Debian-based Linux distribution is that it is easy to pull a piece of software onto your system from a repository using either apt-get or aptitude. Some may prefer to have a GUI but [...]