May 30, 2012
Upgrade Fedora 16 to Fedora 17
Good news!! Fedora 17 has been released officially in the wild. Now the fun part, do we upgrade or fresh install? Well for my part I am upgrading. easy for me there is a simple way to upgrade using PreUpgrade package from Fedora. Open a terminal session and first make sure your system has the latest updates. $ sudo yum update Now lets install the preupgrade package. $ sudo yum install preupgrade Once the... read more
Apr 3, 2012
Monitoring CPU temp on Fedora
recently found the need to monitor CPU temp on a Fedora 16 install. $ sudo yum install lm_sensors Once installed we need to configure lm_sensors. Run the command $ sudo sensors-detect You will be prompted with questions, accepting the defaults will work $ sudo sensors-detect # sensors-detect revision 5946 (2011-03-23 11:54:44 +0100) # System: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP45C-DS3R This program will help... read more
Apr 3, 2012
Create a Local Fedora 16 Repository
If you have several Fedora systems you can create your own local repository to reduce the amount of Internet traffic and control the updates you want to have available. Also, you can create repositories for other products you use or like. In this post we will cover creating a local Fedora 16 repository. Update: You can use this same process on Fedora 17 & 18, just change the version number. Two... read more
Feb 25, 2012
Find Large Files in Linux
Recently had the need to find large files in Linux to clear up some space. With the use of the find, print and awk commands I was able to find files bigger than 50 MB. You can change the values to suit your needs. To find all files over 50,000KB (50MB+) in size and display their names, along with size, use following syntax: find {/path/to/directory/} -type f -size +{size-in-kb}k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk... read more
Jan 23, 2012
Install BlueGriffon Web Editor on Fedora 16 x64
Just recently had the need to try out a new wysiwyg web editor and remember from years ago using NVU which is a simple graphical editor based on Netscape / Gecko engine. Development stop and was taken up by Kompozer which was stopped as well, but now has new life under BlueGriffon. BlueGriffon is a new WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox 4,... read more
