[How-To]Send SMS from your Linux computer via your Mobile Phone
While exploring Fedora 10 Beta, I found this neat little app called Phone Manager.
The about page of PhoneManager states
Phone Manager is a program created to allow you to control aspects of your mobile phone from your GNOME 2 desktop..
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Create a Fedora Bootable USB Pen/Flash Drive Easily using liveusb-creator
LiveCDs are a great way to try out (new) Linux distros on your system.
Unfortunately CDs get scratched pretty easily, and can turn into a coaster pretty soon.
With prices of USB pen drives at rock bottom, they’re probably the best way to try out LiveCDs. Generally its not that easy to make a bootable LiveCD [...]
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Booting into Linux in 5 seconds Flat!
At the recently held Linux Plumbers’ Conference, 2 Linux developers, Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok, demonstrated a Linux system booting in five seconds flat. To demonstrate this, they used an Asus EEE PC using a modified Fedora and modified Moblin. In-fact the bootup was so fast that the they actually had to hold the EEE PC, as the [...]
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Get your copy of Sun OpenSolaris For Free
In my previous posts, I’d mentioned about Canonical’s Ship It program, which sends Ubuntu disc for free to your door step, Fedora’s Free Media program, which ships Fedora media wherever you it shipped. .I’d also mentioned Oracle sending their Oracle Unbreakable Linux for free(though to date I haven’t received them).
Now, Sun Microsystems joins the list [...]
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Fedora 9 on a USB Pen Drive
I’d posted previously on How to install Fedora 8 on USB pen drive. Now that Fedora 9 is out, Kevin Purdy over at Lifehacker has post how-to do the same for Fedora 9.
A quick excerpt:
Fedora 9 Linux distribution makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a three-click affair. Even better, you [...]
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Fedora Free Media Program
While having a look around Fedora’s site, I came across the Free Media Program.
Fedora Free Media Program is a volunteer initiative under Fedora Distribution Project that aims to distribute Fedora Media (DVDs) for free to individuals who couldn’t afford to buy or download. Local Fedora Ambassadors or Contributors are invited to participate.
Unlike Canonical which [...]
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Getting your Fedora 8 Multimedia Ready
Unlike openSUSE 10.3, Fedora doesnt have the 1-click installers for easy install of codecs ,so you’ll have to rely on Terminal and Yum to get it up and running.
All the below operations require Root privileges, so switch to root first by opening the Terminal and typing
All commands under “code” will have to be entered at [...]
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Teach me Linux - A Compilation of Linux FAQs and Guides
Picture this. You’re fascinated by Linux. You always wanted to try it out. Now that you want to try it out, or have tried out the LiveCD but want to know more details, where do you look for? Of course Google and the Internet is always there. But that would require the right set of [...]
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Fedora 9 Alpha Released
The alpha release of Fedora’s next version, Fedora 9 was release today
The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider community to become involved with the testing of Rawhide: representing a sanitised snapshot of Fedora’s development branch, which sees rapid changes and will become the next major release, it should boot on the majority [...]
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Fedora 8 and Compiz Fusion on ASUS eeePC 701
Almost everyone would be knowing about ASUS eeePC by now. For the uninitiated, The ASUS eee PC is a subnotebook. The eeePC is powered by a 900 MHz Intel Celeron-M ULV 353 processor, features 512MB of DDR2 RAM and uses Xandros as it’s OS and has an Integrated Intel GMA 900 as its graphics [...]
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