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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 | Posted in Install, fedora | 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 | Posted in Schedule, fedora | Comments (0)

How to learn Linux – Part I

August 25, 2008 – 1:31 am

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 cool [...]

By Manish | Posted in Guidance, Problems | Comments (0)

Fedora 8 on HP 6515b

December 4, 2007 – 1:49 pm

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 [...]

By Ankur | Posted in Install, Problems | Comments (3)