Archive for October, 2005

Fedora Help Forums

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Quite possibly the most useful Linux and Fedora forums on the internet are LinuxQuestions.org and FedoraForum. I prefer the first one since it has been around much longer and has a great deal more content for Linux in general (not just Fedora). However the second one has been dubbed the “official support forum” for Fedora, […]

Virtual Private Servers

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

One of Linux’s many strength’s is its highly suitable web hosting options. Primarily Apache web server on Linux with various open source applications can provide cheap solutions for hosting needs.
The most commonly used hosting option is Virtual Hosting through Apache. With a simple setup, hundreds of unique websites can be run with 1 single […]

PHP4 on Fedora Core 4

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

EDIT (Dec 19, 2005):
I have written a formal guide on PHP4 on FC4.
One of my biggest difficulties with using Fedora Core 4 was that it packages PHP5 with the Apache webserver. Any experienced person should know that Fedora Core is probably a terrible Linux Distribution to be using for a large scale Web Server on […]

Toying with Kernel 2.6.13

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

Since the 2.6.13 kernel was released some time ago, I’ve heard plenty of negative commentary about changes within it. From referring to the Fedora-list mailing list, it appears as though there were plenty of rough edges. Anyways, using my FC4 Kernel Notes, I followed through my procedure and installed version 2.6.13.2 from source.
The first observation […]

Another Linux User Blog

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

I think I’m finally ready to launch a Linux only technical Blog. I have no major goals other than to document some issues that I may wish to examine at a later date. Other than that I would hope that my notes regarding my experiences or observations may be useful to the general linux user […]