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This is a Small Guide on How Much Space you should reserve for your Fedora Core installation, and where to allocate the space. Of Course, this will not be valid for 100% of cases, but is a general frame.

When installing Fedora you may encounter a kernel panic in the very beginning of the process. This is something experienced in other GNU/Linux distributions as well and it is related to incorrect identification of the 965P as G965 (kernel issue).

How to separate "/home" from "/" on an existing Fedora LVM default install. This allows future fresh reinstalls (VS upgrades) to be performed without having to first backup /home, and it also allows future LVM flexibility in that the system does not need to be taken offline again because the root filesystem is now optimally resized.

A Howto on using iptables to configure your firewall

A bug in anaconda and another in system-config-network can lead to a broken /etc/hosts file. This results in various networking services not starting or otherwise missbehaving.

This article focuses on the step-by-step process on installing printer driver for iP1500, but may also apply to iP1000, iP2200 and iP4200, with some minor changes in the procedure.

Configuring an advanced input device like this Intellimouse with 5 buttons can be tricky. While this method was tested on Fedora Core 4 it should work on other versions of Fedora Core and could also be modified for other Linux distributions.

How & why to use rpmfusion's "automagical" source akmods instead of regular binary kmods (kernel modules).

A Howto on using iptables to configure your firewall

This guide will help you set up your own Plone site using Zope and Apache on Fedora Core. Zope is capable of acting as a standalone server, but we use Apache and its URL rewriting engine (mod_rewrite) to give us more power and flexibility.

This howto explains how to setup postfix with features such as tls encryption, smtp auth, content filtering, spam protection, virus protection and grey listing. This howto uses postfix, amavisd-new, spam assassin, clamav and sqlgrey. Most of which are in Fedora Extras. Work is also being done to make sure all are in Fedora Extras soon.

The Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Client is a remote access client that allows people to connect to applications available on central servers. The purpose of this how-to is to resolve the "missing dependency : libXm.so.3" problem that you face when attempting to install it on Fedora 8.

BitTorrent is a client application for the torrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol created by programmer Bram Cohen. BitTorrent is designed to widely distribute large amounts of data without incurring the corresponding consumption in server and bandwidth resources (and typically, monetary fees attracted as a result of that). The original BitTorrent application is written in Python and its source code has been released under the BitTorrent Open Source License (a modified version of the Jabber Open Source License), as of version 4.0. The name "BitTorrent" refers to the distribution protocol, the original client application, and the .torrent file type.

It is a known fact that operating a computer as administrator (or root in linux) is very bad. This How-To covers how to configure and use sudo to perform commands as root, allowing you to do what you need to do, and still behaving like a moderately responsible person. There are two parts: part one is configuring sudo to allow users in the group "wheel" to run commands as root. Part two is adding users to the "wheel" group. Allowing users to run commands as root without first requiring a password is a potentially dangerous thing. Extra care should be taken if you choose to let sudo run without a password.

A Howto on using iptables to configure your firewall

This howto outlines a few extra steps that can be taken to further secure a SSH server, chiefly from the constant onslaught of automated brute-force password attacks.

Building modules for SELinux to allow specific actions. This also covers the basic concept(s) of testing if SELinux is the culprit. This howto is specific to Fedora Core 5.

This will show how to install the opensource Java IDE Netbeans. One of the more popular and easy to install IDE's with lots of additional features.

A tweak to Firefox to allow it to load pages quicker, utilizing multiple connections to a single site.

Songbird is a web browser/ media player and a lot more. It is from Mozilla so it has to be one of the best. Although it is not yet released officially, we can take a sneek peek of Songbird. This HOWTO will guide you through the installation steps required to get Songbird running.

This howto covers Installing Steam onto your Fedora using Wine.

This will install Finity Flight II Episode III: Beast's Wish. However this howto applies to all Finity Flight II Episodes I-III.

This how to will take you through the steps to install Aiglx using the Nvidia drivers version 1.0.9626.

the latest drivers seem to work just fine, but i found some of my firefox tabs not refreshing upon switching and my terminal windows not displaying all the text. i found this fix in the nvidia forums...

At times new users are poorly informed and assume the best way to get 3D and added feature support for their nVidia graphics cards is to install the driver as provided by nVidia. We believe this is not the case. We recommend using the kernel modules provided by RPMFusion.

If your skype test call doesn't give your voice back then you may have to enable your "microphone capture" an your "mic boost" devices. Note that this aren't the "microphone" device. This also applies to any other program that need microphone capturing, as the ekiga VoIP service, and is not skype unique feature.

This howto covers installing the windows media codecs for use on Fedora.

Audacious or BMP as it was formerly known, is a rewrite of the classic XMMS player with a new, modern interface and various other featurs you would expect from a modern music player. All while keeping true to the lightweight, simple no-nonsense music player ideal. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 files, aren't included in Audacious by default. You can add support for mp3 by installing an add-on package from third party add-on repository rpm.livna.org