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It all started in the CentOS forums. CentOS, being an Enterprise Class Linux distro, may not have support for new hardware, especially those found in desktops and laptops. CentOS forums get many postings from users who are looking for drivers that are needed for their network device, webcam, etc. In fact, googling for “driver” and [...]
One of the most commonly asked questions in the CentOS forums is concerned with 3rd party repositories. In addition to referring to the Repositories wiki article, we need to make sure people use the yum priorities plugin appropriately. Often times, we want to know how they set up the priority scores but there is no [...]
A while ago, I was talking with my buddies and the subject was about installing / updating a package using yum. yum did not find the package that had just been added. No problem, either yum clean metadata or yum clean all will do. Err … it didn’t. As it turned out, it didn’t work [...]
For some reason, my desktop gnome menu had a “Suspend” option. It was right under the “Log out …” option in the System dropdown menu. One day, when I meant to click on the “Log out” option, my mouse went too far and I ended up selecting this “Suspend” option. After struggling for the next [...]
My first encounter with kernel modules was when my systems running Fedora Core 5 started crashing after the kernel update to 2.6.18. Long story short, it was due to a bug in the cifs kernel module which was fixed after more than 100 e-mail exchanges with samba developers. The problem was solved, but there was [...]
There are several ways of getting help in CentOS as summarized on the Wiki Help page. The most commonly used CentOS-provided venues are the mailing lists and the forums. However, when people encounter problems or simply want to find out some information, they most likely just go to google. I performed some searches on google [...]
Last year, we saw many people who migrated to CentOS. There is no doubt we have many more CentOS “newcomers” this year. There are basically two types of CentOS newbies. One is former/current Windows users who just want to see what Linux looks like or who are seriously considering saying goodbye to the blasted OS. [...]
Jim Perrin put an impressive ASCII Christmas tree on Planet CentOS. This reminded me of my own very old ASCII snowman I used to place in motd of a Solaris workstation during holiday seasons. -rw-r—– 1 yagi2 yagi 661 Dec 17 1998 holi $cat holi _XXX_ . . . . . . . . . [...]
Like many other people, I use Linux as a backup server. The other day, I noticed that daily incremental backup of one of the Windows machines was well over 1 GB even on the day the user was mostly idle. The only thing the user was doing was … e-mailing. Aha! (heard the bell?) It [...]
One of the many things I use Linux for at work is to edit movies. No, not that kind of movies you are thinking about … this is strictly for science work. Anyway, the first step is to transfer video from a camcorder connected through a firewire port using kino. I am doing this on [...]
