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Jun 7

How to Install Xen Hypervisor on Fedora 19

It’s been a little while since I last posted about installing Xen on Fedora, so I figured that Fedora 19′s beta release was as good a time as any to write a new post. To get started, you’ll need to get Fedora 19 installed on your favorite hardware (or virtual machine).

Install the Xen hypervisor and tools. Also, ensure that both of the necessary daemons are running on each boot:

yum -y install xen xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-runtime
chkconfig xend on
chkconfig xendomains on

You’ll notice that I didn’t start the daemons quite yet. We will need the xen hypervisor running before they will be of any use.

Now, let’s configure GRUB2. I wrote a quick post about these steps last year. The Xen kernel entry should already be configured (by grubby), but it’s not the default. Fixing that is a quick process: Read more

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May 23

The Fedora Raspberry Pi Spin Released as Pidora OS

The Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) at Seneca College in Canada has releasedPidora 18, its Fedora remix optimised for the Raspberry Pi mini-computer. Pidora 18 is a completely new build of Fedora packages for the ARMv6 architecture of the Pi, which has a significant number of packages from the Fedora repositories available for installation. It also features a special headless mode that makes it easy to install the distribution over the network. Pidora is a fresh start following Seneca’s earlier Fedora remix for the Pi, which has been discontinued.

The developers say that “almost all” Fedora packages are available in Pidora and can be installed with the yum package manager; Pidora’s packages were built from the sources in the official Fedora repository. The Raspberry Pi images were compiled to tailor specifically to the Raspberry Pi’s hardware and the included installer includes special configuration modules designed as part of the Pidora project. The default SD card image includes the C, Python and Perl languages and associated programming tools. Libraries that support external hardware for robotics software via the GPIO, I2C and SPI interfaces are also included. Read more

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May 12

Network Security Toolkit (NST) 2.15.0 Is Based on Fedora 15

Network Security Toolkit (NST) 2.15.0 has been released. The latest update is based on Fedora 15 and brings all of the changes and new packages included in the latest Fedora release, including Gnome 3.0.

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Network Security Toolkit (NST) 2.15.0 Is Based on Fedora 15

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May 11

How to enable Wifi on Toshiba Satellite L675 Under 64-Bit Fedora 14

In a recent article, I discussed the fact that I recently purchased a Toshiba Satellite L675 laptop. I absolutely love the machine, but I did have two problems with it under Fedora 14 64-Bit Edition:

(1). I could not get the wifi to work at all.
(2). I could not get Google Voice to work correctly from within the Chrome web browser.
Today, I would like to announce that I have solved problem number 1, and the solution works perfectly. In fact, I am connected to the Internet right now using my new wifi connection. In this article, I will detail the exact steps that I took to solve this problem.

The Satellite L675 is a great device. Here are its specs: Read more

May 9

GNOME 3 Live Images, Based on Fedora and openSUSE, Available Now

GNOME 3 has been out for a while now and it certainly got a lot of attention in the Linux world.

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GNOME 3 Live Images, Based on Fedora and openSUSE, Available Now

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