Fedora
mailx or mail command in Linux is still providing service for guys like me, especially when we need to send email automatically by script. gmail is great. Now, how to ... read more »
NFS is widely deployed and used even after more than twenty year. NFS is easy to set up and easy to use. This introduces how to set up the NFS ... read more »
Sharing the networking is important. Setting up a gateway is a good solution to it. Building up the gateway on a Linux box is easy and cost efficient, but reliable. ... read more »
This posts list benchmark (using bonnie++) result of I/O performance of Xen LVM and loopback backed VBDs.
The configuration of machines
Dom0
VCPU: 2 (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz)
Memory: 2GB
Xen and Linux ... read more »
How to create a Fedora live USB media is introduced in this post. We can boot to Fedora operating system environment through a live USB system in the USB flash ... read more »
I need to backup my Linux home directory to one of my portable hard disk. I tried to use git, but failed since git doesn’t support large file (I failed ... read more »
Different Linux distros have different method to set the hostname. On Fedora Linux, it is quite simple.
Open the /etc/sysconfig/network file
# vim /etc/sysconfig/network
Find the line starting with
HOSTNAME=
Assign the hostname for this ... read more »
How to create a LVM group from two hard disk partitions is introduced in this post.
Assume we have installed two hard disks /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc to the server, our task ... read more »
In this post, these content are introduced:
Create and manage file-backed virtual block device (VBD) for virtual machines on xen.
Install Fedora 11 via internet as DomU on top of xen.
Manage virtual ... read more »
ns is a discrete-event network simulator targeted primarily for research and educational use. There are two version of ns, ns-2 and ns-3, which are quite different with each other in ... read more »
Update on Jan. 7, 2012: The package for the gtk application style setting on KDE 4.7 is kcm-gtk. The command to install this package is: “# yum install kcm-gtk”.
One annoying ... read more »
Please consider PreUpgrade for upgrading Fedora. This is the recommended method.
This post makes a list of actions should be done to upgrade Fedora using yum. Please note that this is ... read more »
VMware Player and VirtualBox are two cool and free full virtualization solutions and both can run on top of a Linux host. In this post, we introduces how to install, ... read more »
Update on Nov. 29, 2011: ATI fglrx driver work on Fedora 16 with GNOME 3 Shell with Catalyst driver 11.11 (xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-11.11).
Update on Oct. 9, 2011: GNOME 3 shell works now ... read more »
How to manage users and repositories and how to use these repositories will be introduced in this post. Please refer to Setting Up Git Server Using Gitosis for how to ... read more »
The design of Mac OSX’s theme is very nice. I am always looking for a good theme for my Linux desktop. There are designs influenced by Mac’s style which looks ... read more »
Fedora’s repositories provide most of the software packages needed when using Linux. However, for various consideration, they do not provide some packages, such as MPlayer, ffmpeg. Fortunately, some community maintained ... read more »
Fedora does not support MPlayer for some reason. But rpmfusion does it for us. Let’s install mplayer and learn some tricks to play rmvb files.
1. Add rpmfusion repository:
Enable RPM Fusion ... read more »
