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How Manipal got its first Linux (fedora) server

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 [...]

F11 release build – up

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 [...]

How to learn Linux – Part I

This is probably the toughest question which I have ever faced in my life. Linux isn’t a programming language or networks paper where you have tabulated contents or a language specification. Its something more than that. Sounds Weird? Isn’t it? To learn Linux you don’t need pen-copy and other stationary at your disposal. Just a [...]

Fedora 8 on HP 6515b

Well i have installed Fedora 8 now and well i was facing the usual problems, install proceeded well in text mode without any problems but on booting after the ATI driver install i was presented with a console login that is no xserver started and then started the problem with WiFi, ndiswrapper wont install it [...]