Posted by: மோகன் on: April 27, 2008
Yaboot is a boot loader for Open Firmware based machines (like IBM pSeries) (In simple terms its like grub boot loader). If we make a small mistake in the yaboot.conf file (like missing a quote), yaboot refuses to read the conf file and you can’t boot the system. Still we can manually specify the vmlinux [...]
Posted by: மோகன் on: April 26, 2008
I need to be online in IRC channels for my work nature.
I started using pidgin(then gaim) to chat in IRC channels, I was quite happy with pidgin. Its not only IRC client, also Instant Messaging client. So you can add yahoo, msn, google, aim accounts also. You can group the chat windows based on the [...]
Posted by: மோகன் on: April 18, 2008
As a Fedora fan, I am eagerly waiting for the F9 release, but now Fedora Wiki says that F9 release is delayed by two weeks (F9 final release on May 13).
I am very much interested in the following features in F9
Ext4
Firefox 3
Fast XStartup
KDE4
NetworkManager with Mobile Broadband support
I assume it means [...]
Posted by: மோகன் on: April 16, 2008
I often need to install Fedora/Redhat Enterprise Linux releases on a couple of machines due to my work. So its not feasible to write CD/DVD for each distro release as I will be wasting CD/DVDs as well as number of CD/DVDs keep on piling up. And in most of the cases the system already has [...]
Posted by: மோகன் on: April 15, 2008
Quick how to for connecting to internet via bluetooth
Posted by: மோகன் on: April 15, 2008
Hi,
Welcome to my blog. I am going to share my experience with Linux, computers in this blog.
Note:
Since my work involves Linux kernel programming and I use Linux at work and home, most of my blogs will be related to Linux.