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Entries Tagged ‘fedora’

system-config-firewall

This post title is the name of a Fedora configuration tool which is getting better with each release. Firewall configuration used to scare new users, but now things are a lot easier. Having a nice and simple GUI, system-config-firewall (which is written in Python) offers default iptables rules for both desktop and server users and [...]

Fedora 11 coming closer

Just a quick reminder: Fedora 11 Beta is due tomorrow, March 31th (one week later than the initial schedule). The feature list is almost 100% completed and I must say I’m impressed with it so far (I’m running Rawhide as I said before).
Here’s two more screenshots:

Fedora 11 preview

Fedora 11 Alpha came out a month ago, 2 days later than the initial schedule, and it has recently entered its “Feature Freeze” state.
Codenamed Leonidas, Fedora 11 is due to be released on May 25th and it includes a large number of new features (most of them have already been approved).
I’ve been using Fedora for [...]

Fedora 11 Alpha YUM issues

There are quite a few Fedora 11 Alpha / Rawhide users complaining about not being able to perform a system update. Both YUM and PackageKit fail trying to download repomd.xml.
I found different solutions for this, but none of them seemed to work for me. I was able to get it fixed in a different manner, [...]