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February 2006

Open Source Fedora Core

The blog of Chitlesh Goorah * the Fedora Project Ambassador and the * kadischi (Fedora Live CD Tool) contributor.

January 2006

EasyLinux: Fedora Guide

by 1 other
covers such things as: basic configuration, installation of most used additional software, basic server installations and some other tips & tricks. Guide is wiki-based, so everybody can contribute and keep it up-to-date. See Unofficial Fedora Core St

Konserve: Backup MadeEasy

a small backup utility that lives in the KDE 3.x system tray, and it makes backups so easy, so automatic, that you'll probably forget all about it... until you desperately need that file you accidentally deleted.

December 2005

xampp - install an Apache web server and add MySQL, PHP and Perl.

by 18 others
an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.

Bangalore Linux Users' Group - blug.in

huge group of Linux users here - several thousand over the various mailing lists, and 60-100 attend every meeting. What else would you expect from a LUG in the IT Capital of India? ;-)

Expanding Linux Partitions with LVM - FedoraNEWS.ORG

We're going to backup our home folder with tar, since we want the permissions to be kept as they are. BACK UP TO CD

Simple Backup Solution Home - a simple backup solution intended for desktop use.

by 1 other
a light weight application which makes scheduled backups and also handles partial/full recoveries when they are needed. The tool is a Python script which, despite its small size, has a graphical interface.

CheckInstall - Linux Utility

utility to automatically build RPM/Debian or Slackware packages from tar.gz source pages. This makes it possible to do a "clean" installation and de-installation of almost any source code tar.gz package.

Klik Wiki - install software, as non-root user or from a Live-CD. because one software package is one compressed cmg file.

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an easy way to install software, even while running as non-root user or from a Live-CD. Because one software package is always exactly just one compressed cmg file, you can always delete software packages without any problems for other software. Because y

November 2005

The Fedora Legacy Project - a community-supported open source project.

to work with the Linux community to provide security and critical bug fix errata packages for select End of Life Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core distributions. This will allow for a longer effective life for those releases.

Boutell.Com, Inc: Linux Software Map

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a database of many of the packages that have been written for, ported to, or, these days, simply compiled for linux and made available. The software map is maintained by Aaron Schrab, and his web page explains the correct way to submit new entries. this h