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How-To enable root login in Fedora 10 at the Gnome Login / Via GUI


Come Fedora 10 and the Root login at the default GNOME Welcome screen is disabled. So, if you say try to login as user root, you won`t be allowed to login. So, here`s the work-around. 1) Setup SUDO 2) Setup Root Account:

 How-To   Linux   Pragmatism   Troubleshoot  

By Debjit
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A Desktop Client for Google Reader, finally!!


A Desktop Client for Google Reader, finally!!

Thanks to Adobe AIR and FOSS protagonists. And in them, we trust. Well, we finally have a desktop client for the Google Reader. All you need to do is get the Adobe AIR environment installed on your system and grab the AIR application called ReadAir, Bingo!! In Seconds, you will be accessing your feeds on…

 Linux   Pragmatism   Social Media  

By Debjit

Setting up Mysql database server on Fedora


When you choose to install Mysql from the package selection menu during Fedora Installation, what gets installed apparently  is the mysql-client.  So  when you try to run mysqld at the shell, you may end up getting a socket error. This is because the main component mysql-server is not installed. You can install is simply my…

 Linux   Programming   Software  

By Debjit

HOW-TO make “the java plugin” work on Firefox in Fedora 10 / Linux Distro?


↑ Grab this Headline Animator The basic idea behind making any plugin work on a Mozilla based browser is to have the plugin symbolically linked to the plugins directory of Mozilla or Firefox. Fedora 10 already has the Sun JRE (Java Runtime Environment) JRE 1.6.0_07 packed in the box. Now, in order to enable the…

 How-To   Linux  

By Debjit
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How-To get Mp3 support for Amarok on Fedora10


Fedora 10 ships with Amarok 1.94. If you install the the amarok-extras-free world package then you may not get your Mp3s to still play. This is because the amarok-extras-free depends on two more packages (dont confuse with dependencies) named: libtunepimp-extras-nonfree and xine-lib-extras-nonfree.

 How-To   Linux  

By Debjit

Automatix comes to Fedora 9 – FedoMATIX


↑ Grab this Headline Animator Remember Automatix? Yes the nifty little application that made installing additional softwares on the Ubuntu system a breeze. Here comes the same for Fedora 9, FedoMATIX (v0.1Beta). It currently works on the command line only, but supports more than 60 additional softwares/apps already. The next version, which is due release…

 Hacks   Linux   Pragmatism   Software  

By Debjit

Disabling Shutdown Via Ctrl-Alt-Del on a Linux box


In this article we will tell you how you can easily disable the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combinations and prevent shutting down of your linux system?

 How-To   Linux   Security  

By Debjit

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