Archive for May, 2007

Fedora 7 is Live!

As of 8 AM MDT, Fedora 7 is available! There are several to choose from so choose wisely. This Fedora is one of the largest undertakings by the Fedora Project. Here are just a few things you’ll get with Fedora 7: CD Creation Tools – Build your own custom Fedora CD/DVD with its own rpms [...]

Posted on May 31, 2007 at 7:55 am by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
In: Install, News, Releases, Tech, Tools

rtorrent – An introduction

Recently, I’ve been asked a few times how to use rtorrent so I thought it time to introduce it to others who might be interested in configuring my favorite bittorrent client. First off, this is a Fedora tutorial, but much of what you’ll see in this tutorial is applicable to just about any Linux distro. [...]

Posted on May 27, 2007 at 12:09 pm by herlo · Permalink · 4 Comments
In: Tech, Tools

RAID 6 – Fedora Core 6

You’ve probably heard of RAID 0, RAID 1, and even RAID 5. But RAID 6? What is Raid 6 you ask? Well, first we need to take a look at RAID 5 and understand how it works. If you understand RAID 5, then RAID 6 is an easy transition. RAID 5 is what is referred [...]

Posted on May 22, 2007 at 7:08 pm by herlo · Permalink · 3 Comments
In: RAID, Tech, Tools

Thunderbird 2.0 – Fedora Core 6

So, I recently installed Thunderbird 2.0 on my Fedora Core 6 box. Here is what I did to get it working: # yum –enablerepo=development list thunderbird . . . snip . . . Available Packages thunderbird.i386 2.0.0.0-1.fc7 development # yum -y –enablerepo=development update thunderbird . . . snip . . . Updated: thunderbird.i386 0:2.0.0.0-1.fc7 Complete! [...]

Posted on May 18, 2007 at 9:32 pm by herlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: Install, Mail, Releases, Tech, Tools

Utah – You know you have something to say.

There is a great opportunity upon us to show Utah what Open Source can do.  Come on and join the rest of Utah Open Source.  Not only attend the Utah Open Source Conference, but submit a presentation or tutorial. Here’s an excerpt from a post over at the Utah Open Source Conference website.  (http://www.utosc.org) You [...]

Posted on May 2, 2007 at 8:05 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Tech

Want to know what that service does?

I regularly run services I don’t need…until I find out what they do.  After that, I immediately (or semi-immediately) turn them off.  I was perusing Red Hat Magazine today and found a neat article that details just about every System V service available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This list should be pretty applicable [...]

Posted on May 1, 2007 at 12:01 pm by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
In: Tech