This section contains news I find important and reviews I have done of various products or Linux distributions.
- About
- What is an Operating System
- News and Reviews
- Fedora 21 – Major changes to installation options
- Fedora 19 — More changes
- Fedora 18 — A New Anaconda
- Fedora 17 — Power Desktop and Choice for Parents
- Fedora 14 — Easy (Mostly) Transition and no Surprises (Updated)
- Fedora 13 — Upgrade Issues Mar Otherwise Solid OS
- Fedora 12 — A Player for Server and Desktop
- Fedora 9 Not Ready for Most Users
- VirtualBox – Free and Easy Virtualization
- Rev’ing up Your Backups
- DataBook for Linux Administrators
- Fedora and Red Hat Documentation
- Installation
- Creating and Using Live Images
- Using the New Anaconda Installer in Fedora 18 and Above
- Errors During Fedora Linux DVD Installation
- Hardware Compatibility
- Software RAID
- Default Partitioning and Disk Layout During Installation
- Advanced Partitioning and Disk Layout During Installation
- Kickstart
- Sample Linux Installation Procedures
- Post-Installation Problems
- Upgrades
- Upgrade Fedora with dnf system-upgrade – Fedora 22 and above
- Upgrades with fedup – not so much!
- Upgrades with preupgrade
- Upgrades not recommended with Fedora 18 through 22
- Fedora 11 Upgrade Problems With YUM
- Boot Fails After Upgrade from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11
- Applications Won’t Start After Fedora 10 Upgrade
- Migrating to Linux
- Starting Linux
- Filesystems
- Anatomy of a Disk Drive
- Disk Drive Types
- The Linux Kernel and HDD Types
- Introduction to Linux Filesystems
- Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
- Understanding the /dev directory
- The Linux Extended Filesystems
- Using hard and soft links in the Linux filesystem
- Logical Volume Manager – LVM
- Using the Loopback devices
- File Permissions
- Managing Cruft in tmp directories
- Swap space on Linux Systems
- The Command Line Interface (CLI)
- System Tools
- System Administration
- Software Updates
- Networking
- Printing
- The X Window System
- Security
- Scripting Languages
- Apache Web Server
- Troubleshooting
- Compiling the Kernel
- Applications
- Multimedia
- DataBook for Linux Users
- Introduction
- Section: The Basics
- Chapter — How Do I Get Started?
- Chapter — Introduction to Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)
- Chapter — Using KDE 3.5
- Chapter — Using KDE 4
- Section: Managing Files
- Computer Memory — RAM vs Disk Drives and Files
- Searching for Files with KDE
- Comparison of Common File Managers
- Using the Dolphin File Manager
- Using Midnight Commander
- Using Konqueror
- Associating Files with Application Programs
- Using the Krusader file manager
- Using the Standard KDE File Manager to Save Files
- Extracting Zip Archives
- Section: Internet Applications
- Chapter — Multimedia
- Chapter — Application Programs
- Chapter — Printing in Linux
- Chapter — Problem Solving
- DataBook for OS/2
- Humor