Tag Archives: Fedora

Sun’s xVM VirtualBox

My experiment in using Fedora 10′s built-in virtualisation technology  (based on KVM and qemu / kqemu) to install OpenSolaris didn’t go too well! I find the emulator to be just too slow for my taste, but I’m not sure if … Continue reading

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Installing OpenSolaris 2008.11 in a virtual machine within Fedora 10 (or any Linux with KVM)

I need to set up some OpenSolaris servers for a pet project, and so I can educate myself about the ins and outs of OpenSolaris. I don’t have lots of server hardware lying around spare and I don’t want to … Continue reading

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Fedora 10 graphical boot splash

For a little bit of extra eye-candy, Fedora 10 users can try the “Plymouth boot splash loader”

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Fedora 10 co-operating with Windows XP – part4

Awesome! I got suspend and 3D graphics working fine on the Dell E6400! Searching the Fedora / RPMFusion repositories revealed this: [izamryan@localhost ~]$ yum search nvidia | grep -i ‘driver’ : driver for NVIDIA graphic cards xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 : NVIDIA’s proprietary … Continue reading

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Fedora 10 w/ Aptana Studio 1.2 & RadRails

Here’s a short recipe for getting Fedora 10 up and running, with RadRails. Fedora 10 comes with Eclipse 3.4, so for this we’re going to use the stock MySQL & Eclipse from the repositories, then add the Aptana Plugin to … Continue reading

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Fedora 10 co-operating with Windows XP – part3

OK … trying to get MS Office to run within Linux is do-able … just not easy to do for someone who doesn’t have the Office CD’s (i.e. me). I might have to drop by our local Microsoft distributor’s and … Continue reading

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Fedora 10 co-operating with Windows XP – part2 (Updated)

If you plan to use Linux on your Dell Latitude E-Series (E6400, E6500, etc), make sure you can live without suspend. 3D graphics support also seems very iffy. [Update: Both 3D graphics and suspend works now, after I installed new … Continue reading

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Fedora 10 co-operating with Windows XP – part1

Right after my laptop went blue screen of death on me … I received a replacement laptop. Unfortunately the replacement is paired off into a Windows domain that has very restrictive policies. Which means, no installing extra programs, no playing … Continue reading

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