Linux
Tutorials and tips on Linux system configuration and administration, and software for Linux systems.
Installing akmod NVIDIA driver from rpmfusion on Fedora 12.
First make sure your nvidia card is in “Supported NVIDIA GPU Products List”: Click here for the list
1. Add rpmfusion repository:
Enable RPM ... read more »
On a x86-64 64 bit Linux system, sometimes we may want to use the 32 bit Firefox, although the support to 64 bit Firefox is getting much better. Just for ... 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 »
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 »
I find a desktop client for publishing to WordPress blogs – lekhonee[1]. I find it interesting and easy to use. This is the first post using it.
The interface is simple, ... read more »
A method to send email notification to a list email addresses by the remote git server after every push from the client will be introduced.
After the client pushing to the ... 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 »
We make mistakes when developing before or after committing in git. We may revert changes and fix our mistake by using git.
Revert entire working tree before committing
We can return the ... read more »
These slides give a brief introduction to how to set up the VPN-like network between several clusters which connect to each other through Internet:
vpn_iptables_v2.pdf
Animation is enabled which may help to ... read more »
Vim is an excellent editor which I use every day. Thunderbird is a nice email application. However, Thunderbird’s integrated editor is not efficient enough to a Vim user. Why not ... read more »
This post introduces how to install flash plugin to 64-bit firefox on a x86-64 Linux (Fedora as the example). Both 64-bit and 32-bit plugin are available.
64-bit flash plugin for Firefox ... read more »
This post is a tutorial for new users to set up git and clone and use the first repository. This post introduces how to start using git for new users. ... read more »
Solutions to git server construction and management are summarised in this post. The post is keeping updating while new solutions is added to this site.
Set up git server
Setting Up Git ... read more »
Gitosis is a software for hosting git repositories witten by Tommi Virtanen. It manages multiple repositories under the same user account. It uses SSH public keys to identify users. Users ... read more »
There is various network configuration information in Linux and lots tools can be used to find out those configuration information. Finding out these network information in Fedora Linux as the ... read more »
Please refer to
Xen solution
for the more latest stable Xen Dom0 solution.
How to set up Xen Dom0 with Xenified Linux kernel in Fedora 12 will be introduced in this post. We ... read more »
I have created slides from introducing Xen’s source code structure and backend and frontend drivers in Xen. Please find the PDF version here:
xen-code-disk-v2.pdf
Animation is enabled which may help to understand ... read more »
Under some situation, we want to start some long jobs and then return to the shell to continue our work. We can do this by starting a job in the ... read more »
(1) convert .avi, .wmv etc. to .wav:
mplayer -ao pcm:file=%7%out.wav MOVIE_FILES
(2) then it is easy to convert .wav file to .mp3 file:
lame -h out.wav out.mp3 read more »