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Presto: Speed up your updates and save bandwidth
Fedora 8
Sunday, 27 January 2008
Prestro is a new project that bridges the gap between deltarpm and yum. Now only will using yum-presto save you lots of bandwidth, but it will cut down on the time it takes to perform updates!
 
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Getting ATI cards to work in Fedora
Fedora 8
Wednesday, 16 May 2007
Ensuring that your graphic card works the way you want it to in Linux can be a long and tenious task if you are encountering problems. This guide will show you how to setup the radeon or the proprietary fglrx driver with your ATI graphics card to make sure your card is functioning as it should.
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Desktop Effects - AIGLX & Compiz, Beryl, Compiz-fusion
Fedora 8
Wednesday, 16 May 2007
Compiz and Beryl are advanced window managers that add some very amazing 3D visual effects to your desktop. Recently, the Compiz and Beryl projects decided to merge into Compiz-Fusion, a window manager (and window decorator) that brings the best of both worlds! This guide will provide you with step-by-step information on how to install the newly-released compiz-fusion packages along with setting up AIGLX.
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Getting nVidia cards to work in Fedora
Fedora 8
Wednesday, 16 May 2007
Ensuring that your graphic card works the way you want it to in Linux can be a long and tenious task if you are encountering problems. This guide will show you how to setup the nv, nouveau or proprietary nvidia driver with your nVidia graphics card to make sure your card is functioning as it should.
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Installing 3rd party repositories for Yum
Fedora 8
Monday, 21 May 2007

There are many third party RPM repositores available for Fedora and/or RedHat based repos such as RPM Fusion and Dries (RPMForge). This guide will show you how to install these third party repos without giving you headaches.

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Media (DVD, mp3, etc) playback in Fedora
Fedora 8
Sunday, 27 May 2007
The Fedora project believes in free software, and seeing as such patent-encumbered or proprietary formats are not included in the Fedora distributions. Unfortunately, that means that that media such as DVDs, MP3s, many types of video, Java content and .swf Flash content cannot be viewed on a fresh install of Fedora. This guide will show you how to install various plugins and codecs to allow the playback of this type of content.
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Installing Java or Limewire the RPM way
Fedora 8
Saturday, 22 September 2007
Please see the Java (Fedora) page on Lindox.