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How Manipal got its first Linux (fedora) server

June 25, 2009 – 11:15 pm

It all started with a failing Student’s Teacher Feedback System, designed by few fourth year students of college, in oct-nov 2008 the system was not able to scale and everything was reverted back to paper, it was then when i was contacted by a teacher from my Department ( Information and Communication Technology ), regarding [...]

By Ankur | Also posted in Install | Comments (0)

Preupgrade : Upgrade to F11 without downloading the entire DVD

May 6, 2009 – 1:30 pm

This has been around for quite sometime now. This post is intended to make everyone aware of Preupgrade’s existence and to answer any queries regarding it.
What is Preupgrade?
Downloading a new Fedora release, burning the DVD and reinstalling the entire thing is very time taking and requires enough bandwith . Preupgrade is an application that [...]

By ankursworld | Also posted in Announcements, General, Install | Comments (0)

F11 release build – up

May 2, 2009 – 5:02 pm

Here’s a post on links to the upcoming F11 release .. Most of it is from the marketing list.. I did add a few though…
http://ostatic.com/blog/history-and-releases-are-cyclical-this-is-fedora-11
“The Fedora Project is rolling out some impressive new features and
functions with Leonidas. One of the most notable is the use of ext4 as
the default file system (while many distributions are [...]

By ankursworld | Also posted in Schedule | Comments (0)

Linux Open Week

March 19, 2009 – 6:48 pm

LUG Manipal is organizing a Linux Open Week sponsored by Fedora from 23rd-28th and 30th March. As the name says, this event stretches for one whole week. It is aimed at increasing awareness about FOSS and also how linux can be useful for people from all spheres of life rather than just a handful of [...]

By anomit | Also posted in Announcements, Workshops | Comments (1)

Synaptics Touchpad in Fedora 9

May 30, 2008 – 5:04 pm

I have been using Fedora 9 from a long time and it really kick’s ass but i was facing the problem that my Touchpad was not working with it but the i found the solution here
Here is how to do it
The easiest was will be to install the package http://atrpms.net/dist/f9/synaptics/
or you can do it manually [...]

By Ankur | Also posted in Problems | Comments (0)