Nvidia drivers on CentOS 7
Since RPM Fusion doesn’t support RHEL / CentOS 7 and I didn’t feel like dealing with the Nvidia installer, I tried to find alternative package repositories. Fortunately I came across ELRepo which has been providing Nvidia drivers (from the long-lived branch release) in form of precompiled kernel drivers (kmod-nvidia)
Automatic desktop cleanup
Desktop Cleanup was the name of an old Windows XP utility used to remove unwanted shortcuts from the desktop. Somewhat useful considering that most Windows installers create desktop shortcuts by default, but extremely limited as it didn’t support other file formats. In the Linux world such an application would
Install Citrix Receiver on CentOS 7
For those using Citrix Receiver to access resources from a Citrix-powered infrastructure here’s a quick installation guide for the Linux client on the recently released CentOS 7. I tested both release 12.1 and release 13.0 on a fully updated CentOS 7 64-bit instance.
Inplace upgrade from OL6.5 to OL7
Oracle Linux 7 was released yesterday and I was keen to test the new upgrade feature after trying it on CentOS. As far as I know the CentOS inplace upgrade is still work in progress, so I expected Oracle Linux to perform better since they advertised it in the