Fedora is a Linux distribution with a fast release cycle, maintained by a community and sponsored by Red Hat.
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Firewalld SELinux
Is there any way to better explanation firewall-cmd than the one given in Fedora18 wiki.
I am trying to convert iptables to FirewallD in cmd line without GUI but cannot find a decent example or ...
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Improve the font rendering in Fedora
I was using Ubuntu and recently moved to Fedora 15 with Gnome 3. I am not at all impressed with the subpixel smoothing and fonts in Fedora. How do I improve the readability and quality?
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Is there something like easy ubuntu for Fedora 18 (to install common non-free software)
I have just installed fedora 18 on my laptop. It is my home machine, so I will be using it for multimedia and similar things.
Having come from Linux Mint, I realize thee is a lot of non-free stuff ...
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Apple Bluetooth Keyboard
I have an Apple bluetooth keyboard and want to use it with Fedora 15.
I turn on the bluetooth on the both devices. Click 'Setup new device' via Gnome3's GUI. The computer detects the keyboard but it ...
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How can I get Fedora and Opensuse server edition?
I want to get server edition for Fedora and Opensuse. I've visited their respective sites, but there is no specific server edition in the download section. So how can I get the server edition for ...
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How to associate the Fedora Start menu with the Windows keyboard?
I would like to associate the Start menu with the Windows key on the keyboard?
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Adjust mouse wheel sensitivity in Fedora / Gnome
Short Question
Is there a way to adjust the mouse wheel scroll sensitivity in Fedora 18?
Long Question
I'm running Fedora 18, with the standard Gnome desktop. I use a Logitech M705 mouse with the ...
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Why is Gnome Shell sending data over my wireless network?
I have been checking which processes under my Fedora Linux 18 are using my upload bandwidth and I occasionally see that Gnome Shell is one of them. Why should it be sending data over my wireless ...
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Installing Fedora on VMWare error: CPU disabled by guest operating system
When I try to install Fedora 16 on VMWare I'm getting the error CPU has been disabled by guest operating system. Any clues?
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Cannot load font true and no console access in Fedora
When I boot Fedora 17 this error appears:
Cannot open font file True
I found this question Cannot open font file True, but the person who faced the problem in that question can access the console. ...
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Can not get a VNC Remote session to Gnome 3.6.2 with Fedora 18
I have installed Fedora 18 with Gnome desktop and installed tigervnc-server. This same setup has worked fine with several other computers with Fedora 17, allowing me to do remote connections with ...
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Fedora 15 Crash after xorg.conf file update
I updated my xorg.conf file looking to set up a dual screen system. Unfortunately, I can't provide you this file because when I went to reboot my system crashed.
The last line I get when I try to ...
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Upgrade MySQL 5.0.88 to 5.1.69
I am upgrading my MySQL installation on a Fedora 10 (and 14) box (in test first.) I have made a system image (it is a VM) and have downloaded MySQL Server Community 5.1.69-1 from the MySQL site.
Once ...
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Turning off gnome's Function key mapping
I recently upgraded to Fedora 18 with gnome. My function keys started to do things like open the cd player (F12) and turn the volume up (F11) and down (F10). I'd like to just pass those though to the ...
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Autofs home folders from solaris 11
I'm having trouble since 2 days with autofs.
I have a Solaris 11 Server.
There I share the folder /export/home with the following command:
share -o rw -d „Freigabe von /export/home“ /export/home
My ...
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Unable to launch Fedora 18 LiveCD using USB device
I just bought a new motherboard which has BIOS and UEFI. I have a previously working LiveCD installed on my usb, created with LiveUSB Creator. I tried using it to boot but got stuck at the grub ...
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Fedora 16 Yakuake keybinding failure ( retracts but will not dropdown )
On fedora 16 I've installed yakuake, and when I hit F12 ( default keybind ) the terminal retracts, but on hitting F12 again it won't deploy down. Does anyone have a thought as to why F12 isn't being ...
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Unable to install VirtualBox Guest Addtions on Fedora 64bit LXDE
I'm Unable to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Fedora 64bit LXDE, the first couple of Linux virtual machines I setup I had no problems with guest additions, but I had to throw them again because ...
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How to enable OpenGL rendering on Fedora 18 with an Intel Corporation 82852/855GM?
On an older laptop that runs Fedora 18, and has a Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device, I cannot get OpenGL to run on it.
In fact, I have no 3D acceleration whatsoever.
I have ...
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Vino on Gnome DE Fedora 18 listening on 0.0.0.0
Listening IPv4://0.0.0.0:5900
After a bit of searching I found this in an error log somewhere. I appreciate the vagueness of this but how do I configure the ip vino should be listening on?
also I ...
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How can you tell if GStreamer plugins are installed correctly
I've installed GStreamer plugins for Fedora 14 using yum. However, when running a qt-phonon application with the GStreamer backend, I get the error
"Warning: You do not seem to have the base ...
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Trying customize Fedora rescue image - how do I go about this?
Most of what I've found on this involves changing install discs - which I don't really need. I just want to install a handful of extra packages and maybe some helpful scripts onto the Fedora rescue ...
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Fedora won't boot after installing Nvidia drivers
I followed this tutorial about Nvidia drivers installation and I accidentally forget to do 5th point (disabling nouveau drivers), so now I can't boot my system. I know I am idiot but is there anything ...
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How to get the latest gnome shell in fedora?
I want to try gnome-shell 3.5 but I dont see it in the repos, I'm using fedora 17, is there any way adding gnome-shell 3.5 to my repos?
Regards
Update:
please note the question was asked on aug ...
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Unable to get graphics to work on a Fedora 17 on a Intel Atom board
I have a Intel N2800 motherboard with the PoverVR Cedar Trail GPU. It seemed that it was not possible to make it work other than using some meego kernel patch that works on a specific kernel version. ...
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What's the best way to have a 169.254.169.254 address local to my laptop?
I want to emulate the Amazon EC2 metadata service on my local system for testing. In EC2, this runs on 169.254.169.254. I understand that this is the designated range for pseudorandom local addresses ...
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Getting xmonad and gnome-panel working with Fedora 18
I have been using fedora 18 lately and trying to get xmonad working with gnome-panel. On my ubuntu and kali installations this works perfectly fine, but in fedora I have yet to get gnome-panels to ...
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Trouble installing or booting into Ubuntu or Fedora using a live USB or DVD on a new Lenovo E31
I've tried a live USB with Ubuntu 12.04.1 (both i386 and AMD 64-bit) as well as 11.10, as well as Ubuntu 10.04 on a DVD and Fedora 17 on a live USB. In all cases, selecting the option to boot into ...
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How to Upgrade Fedora 17 to 18 Remotely via SSH
I followed this https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedora_18 guide to upgrade my Fedora 17 to 18.
All was fine until I issued su -c 'yum --releasever=18 ...
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Slow response time with Gnome shell in Virtualbox fullscreen mode
Today I installed Fedora 15 in a VBox VM to try out Gnome 3. After installing the guest extensions almost everything works fine. Except for the slow response time in fullscreen mode (HOST+F).
By that ...
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Creating an Alias to Loopback Interface with an Arbitrary Name
I have an odd problem that seems simple enough but has evaded me thus far. I am attempting to support a legacy application that has a hard-coded ethernet device name ("eth0"). This hard-coding, I am ...
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Fedora 18. Centering activities on one monitor
I've recently installed Fedora 18 and the only gripe I have so far is that everything is spread between two monitors. Example: The date is currently half on one monitor, half on the other. I get 'Thu ...
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Fedora 17 Xorg fails to start on boot
My Fedora 17 installation is no longer booting into X : it finished loading the boot screen, then the cursor turns into an "X", flashes a quickly a few times then the just stalls.
To get X to load, I ...
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Copy files from source machine to LiveCD
I'm working on distributing a version of Fedora to our internal development team using Live CD. There are certain files I would like to copy to the live cd that are not:
part of an RPM or
going to ...
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Reset Nautilus “Computer” folder list
In my setup I tend to symlink major user folders in Linux to their Windows equivalents, IE Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Videos, etc. Usually I make sure nautilus isn't running before I do it and ...
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Low sound volume on Lenovo T520 under Fedora 16
I'm having trouble hearing anything at all under Fedora 16 on this Lenovo T520. Everything in alsamixer is at 100% (both pulseaudio and card). I installed Windows 7 on the laptop to check if the same ...
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Bind cannot start
Sorry I'm a newbie, I have installed Fedora 12, Bind DNS and others features. Also I'm using webmin.
Several times it can work normally, but now I have to make changes in DNS record (actually I ...
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Fedora 18: can't resolve hosts
My Fedora 18 machine is having problems with resolving hosts:
Could not resolve host: ...; No address associated with hostname]
HTTP error on [https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens], ...
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Console port problems on Fedora 15
I've looked under every search term on google I can think of and can't seem to find anything that works.
I just switched from Windows 7 to Fedora 15 on my PC. I need use of the console port to ...
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Fedora 18 Virtualbox Resolution Guest Additions
I've installed Fedora 18 64bit guest into a Virtualbox VM running on a Max OSX host. Previously I've installed Fedora 17 and after installing guest additions from the rpm fusion repo full screen mode ...
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Dell battery performs worse under linux?
I have recently bought a Dell XPS Touch. I'm dual booting Windows 7 with Fedora 16 (Verne). Right out of the box, Fedora reports 1 hour 26 minutes of battery life at full charge, while Windows reports ...
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Low battery freezes laptop
I have a laptop Lenovo G575. MS Windows works without any problems on it, but with Linux, it freezes during login or up to 10 minutes after power on. I have tried Ubuntu, Fedora 15 and 16, Fedora 16 ...
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set up local mail delivery to user from cron script
A line in my cron.daily script not work as expected. I haven't any special smtp mail server in system,
this line
rsync -avun --inplace /oneuser/file.xls /otheruser/file.xls| mail -s "$0 $?"
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Enable remote desktop for Gnome from command line?
I am trying to set up some automation scripts to set up a Linux environment. I would like to enable remote desktop sharing without the user having to actually use the GUI to do so. My plan is to write ...
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How to determine which module taints the kernel?
My kernel keeps panicking when connected to a certain wireless network. I'd like to send a bug report but my kernel is apparently tainted. From /var/log/messages:
Apr 17 21:28:22 Eiger kernel: ...
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My Google Chrome profile can't open correctly
When i open Google Chrome ( Stable version ) i get dialogue box it say :
"Your profile could not be opened correctly. Some features may be unavailable. Please check that the profile exists and you ...
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no sound in fedora 18
I installed Fedora 18 Xfce Spin as a guest operating system on VirtualBox.It has no sound.
The operating system settings like that;
-Host Driver:Windows DirectSound
-Controller:ICH AC97
How to ...
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how to download fedora 19 alpha release cadidate (or test composite) (spin lxde) iso image?
This should have been an easy google search, but I cannot find any iso images!
The title says what I am searching for.
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issues booting Ubuntu [Firmware Bug ] : ACPI _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
I am running into an issue booting Linux on a new machine. I started with Ubuntu Server edition. I completed the initial setup via an ISO image, however when the machine restarted and went to load ...
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How do font managers work in Fedora?
I am looking to do some font management on my Fedora system. I have installed both Font Manager and Fontmatrix. My goal was to be able to have more fonts installed than I wanted displayed, and to be ...
