Fedora
Yum Update – Fedora Red Hat Package Managment
Dec 19th
Yum is the Red Hat package manager. It automatically handles RPM packages and determines required program dependencies. The most basic Yum function is the update process. To begin type: yum update It will provide you a listing of all the files that can be upgraded. If you have not setup your /etc/sudoers file, you may be required to access root priveleges manually: sudo yum update Update often, as most updates are security and bug fixes!!
Fedora 7 Loads Slow on VirtualBox
Dec 12th
When creating a virtualBox guest OS using Fedora 7 you will notice seamless functionality, and compatibility with guest additions. Although it is apparent than on a Debian host system that Fedora 7 boots extremely slow, and experiences a marked performance decrease as compared to a physical partition installation.
Cube Panel Dependencies Script – Fedora 7
Dec 11th
In the Cube Panel installation instructions is a list of dependencies to install on Fedora 7. The print method used in the PDF does not make it easy to copy paste the apt-get files into a terminal, therefore I have properly formatted a file that can be easily launched with ./. Cube Panel Dependencies Update Simply download the file to your Fedora 7 home folder (user home folder), and run with: sudo ./update You may need to chmod the file to be executable; just give it 777 permissions then delete it afterwards. sudo chmod 777 update && ./update This will install all the Cube Panel dependencies. Then install Cube Panel with the standard installation file: sudo sh cubepanel_fc7_lite-2_3_0.shar Cube Panel installs very easily, and once the installation is complete simply go to the ip address of the server and access port 8443; for example my Cube Panel server runs in a VirtualBox that has a local ip address of 192.168.0.102. The following is an example of how to access Cube Panel, via a web browser, after a successful installation: http://192.168.0.102:8443
Fedora 8 Host VirtualBox
Nov 25th
On Fedora Core distributions, and Fedora 7 & 8 you will not be able to enable VirtualBox host networking the same way as on Debian based system. Red Hat and the Fedora distributions do not include uml-utilities which is a required application for proper host networking functionality. You have reached a dead end on this blog for support for VirtualBox host networking on Fedora distributions. I have decided to use Debian because of their inclusion of uml-utilities in the default repositories.
FTP Debian – Ubuntu – Fedora – Red Hat – Setup
Nov 14th
To setup a FTP server on any Linux machine start by installing vsftpd: sudo apt-get install vsftpd Or: sudo yum install vsftpd Then open the configuration file. In Fedora distributions the vsftpd configuration file is located in: /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf On Debian and Ubuntu systems the vsftpd configuration file is located in: /etc/vsftpd.conf Four lines need to be added to the top of the file for the system to operate as expected. chroot_local_user=YES listen=YES local_enable=YES write_enable=YES You should also disable anonymous login. Change the line that says: anonymous_enable=YES to: anonymous_enable=NO Explicitly specify NO and do not just comment the line, or delete it.
Fedora 8 No Uml-Utilities
Nov 12th
Fedora 8, and all distros in the Fedora series do not have uml-utilities in the preinstalled repositories. Because of this the host networking feature of VirtualBox is not implementable without doing substantial digging to determine an alternative method. I have chosen to utilize Debian, whereas I have had some trouble with the X server settings on Ubuntu, my recent Debian installation works flawwlessy auto adjusting the resoltuion to 1024×768 on first boot. Debian obviously has uml-utilities and bridge-utils in its repos 
