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This howto will show you how to verify Fedora media downloaded from an official Fedora mirror.

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.

This article describes how to setup and configure User-Mode Linux in Fedora Core 6. User-Mode Linux is a safe, secure way of running Linux versions and Linux processes. User-Mode Linux gives you a virtual machine that may have more hardware and software virtual resources than your actual, physical computer. Disk storage for the virtual machine is entirely contained inside a single file on your physical machine. With properly limited access, nothing you do on the virtual machine can change or damage your real computer, or its software.

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 livna's "automagical" akmods instead of regular kmods (kernel modules).

A Howto on using iptables to configure your firewall

As many Fedora Core users may note, there are times when Windows just does not cut it, and you would rather be working on your data in Linux instead of Windows. During those times you may find it necessarry to connect to a Server 2003 ADS. This soulution came about for just one such ocassion. We are not going to cover the requirements in this procedure as this solution is not recommended for a new Fedora Core user, this is tailored for an advanced user that would have the knowledge to join a domain with their Fedora Core machine. Also assistance will be required from the Administrator of the domain, should that not be you!!

Booting grub with the Fedora PXE vmlinuz/initrd images allows you to perform a network installation of Fedora over any existing linux distro, should you not be able to write to or boot from the conventional CD/DVD install media. A PXE netinstall can both be done locally, and with extra care, remotely using VNC. Both methods are explained in this HOWTO.

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.

Many people get confused when trying to boot in to a runlevel other than runlevel 5, for example runlevel 3, disabiling the GUI front end with which most users are familiar. Hopefully this howto will help answer the questions "How do I disable X" or "How do I boot without X" or even "How do I get to single user mode."

A Howto on using iptables to configure your firewall

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 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.

This is the safest method of installing the Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) which can be used to for compiling programs in Java. If you have the JDK installed, you do not need to install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) since it is already included in the JDK.

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.

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.

There have been a number of bugs reported in Red Hat bugzilla against X which have recently been tracked down to 3rd party video drivers being the culprit behind the problem the user was experienced. In many of the cases however, it wasn't obvious that the 3rd party drivers were at fault because the user was actually using the Red Hat supplied drivers, and not using the 3rd party driver that they had previously installed.

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

A solution for those ATI GPU owners who cannot start an X server using the xorg Radeon driver.

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.

Amarok is a powerful music player and manager made for the KDE Desktop environment. Amarok uses the gstreamer framework for music playback and encoding. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 and iTunes music stora aac files, aren't included in gstreamer by default. You can add support for such formats by installing an add-on package from third party add-on repository rpm.livna.org