logicmania

Recently i need a linux machine in my office for server . So i installed Fedora 13 and try to install mysql server using yum. But i can't complete it because yum is not connecting to internet. It's because of our proxy server.  Before 2 months i installed Fedora 12 and failed to install Mysql using yum. I just searched for setting proxy in yum and got the answer for it. This is the solution, 1. open /etc/yum.conf 2. add proxy=http://proxyaddress:port Voila :D , it works fine for me. Atlast my 3 months quest ends here . :P .

Nearly after one year I again tried to install GNU/Linux on my desktop. Last week I have installed Ubuntu-8.04 in my friend's machine and the desktop was really appealing. So, this time I decided to install the bleeding edge Fedora 9 in my machine. I have managed some free space in the machine and installed Fedora without much hassles. The installation was very quick and it took almost 40 minutes to complete. Since I was not a casual GNU/Linux user, I ran into a couple of issues. First problem was with the Interrnet configuration. Later I discovered that the DNS address that I gave was wrong. The new Fedora theme and the package manager was wonderful. I added the livna rpm repository and installed my favourite VLC media player. Another great feature is the Malayalam support - after some minor tweakings from SMC, I was able to read and write Malayalam in OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox. Things were smooth until I rebooted the machine next time. When I reboot the machine, I wa...