Posted by: anyweb - 2010-04-20, 06:33 AM - Forum: PCLinuxOS
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The distribution itself comes on a single live CD which kicks off with a GRUB boot menu. The GRUB screen gives the user the ability to boot normally, into the live environment, into a console or via various safe modes, or to perform a media check. Additional menus along the bottom of the screen offer support for additional languages, screen resolutions and kernel options.
Booting into the live environment presents the user with a blue-themed KDE desktop. The root and guest account passwords are displayed at the top of the screen and the application menu is displayed in the classic KDE style. Icons on the desktop provide short-cuts to the command line, the user's folders and the system's installer. Along the taskbar are icons providing the user with links to various tools to configure the desktop and to configure the computer (more on the differences between those two shortly). There are also launchers to browse the user's files and start the package manager.
The installer starts off by asking the user to partition their hard disk. The partition editor has an interesting approach to its job, where almost all the controls are either buttons or sliders. While this took a few moments for me to get used to, the layout will probably appeal to less experienced users. Once the disk has been divided up, the installer formats the drive and copies the necessary files over from the CD. This happened without any confirmation, taking me a bit by surprise as generally an installer will warn the user before wiping a partition. Once the copy process is complete, the installer asks the user to configure the boot loader. After configuring the boot loader, the installer locked up for a minute and, finally, showed me a screen asking me to "halt computer".
i have acer emachines atom notebook with fedora preinstalled and it does not have cd drive.i has 160 hdd. i coped xp from pendrive but it not getting started. the file system it is showing ext4 and others. i want remove them, convert the hdd into ntfs and install xp.i have to some project work urgently.HOW DO I REMOVE EXT4 PARTITION OF FEDORA AND MAKE A NTFS PARTITION WITHOUT A CD DRIVE. I HAVE USB PORT TO HAVE A PENDRIVE.....
I have the following problem. I have a usb stick which I've used in linux and at work I work with windows at work. Before ejecting my usb stick I forgot to empty my trash in Linux. Now I'm at work and it says my usb stick is full. I have searched all over with google and I can't find a way to delete my .trash from my usb stick. Formatting it doesn't help either. Does anyone know how to do this without having to boot in linux?
Installing software on Linux is actually quite different to how you usually install software on a Windows system.
Most Linux distributions use what is known as a 'package management system' (such as RPM or Deb). The package management system is responsible for keeping a list of all the software installed on your Linux computer, knowing which bits of software need other bits of software to run and for preventing different pieces of software interfering with each other.
That means that rather than downloading some software as an .exe installer file and running that, as in Windows, the best way to install software on Linux is to go through your package management system so that it can keep everything neat and tidy.
To make it easy to find the .rpm and .deb packages you need, most distributions also have a program for automatically finding the right files, downloading them and installing them for you. This is, for example, aptitude (apt-get, apt-remove) on Ubuntu, Debian and many similar distributions and yum on Fedora/RedHat/CentOS-based systems.
For example, if you wanted to install the program recordmydesktop (a great program for making screen recordings of what's happening on your computer screen), you could use these commands at a terminal:
For Ubuntu/Debian/etc.:
Code:
sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop
For RedHat/Fedora/CentOS/etc.:
Code:
su -
yum install recordmydesktop
However! You can avoid using the terminal in most of these distributions; just look for an Add/Remove Software application or a Software Manager or similar. Most of these are pretty easy to use; you can search for the program you are looking for and download and install it in a few clicks.
Posted by: hybrid - 2010-04-17, 12:12 PM - Forum: Site News
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Linux-noob.com now has an official Twitter account -- @linux_noob.
Feel free to follow that account -- we'd appreciate your support. Hopefully we can use that to attract more members, help people out with Linux, connect with our members and to showcase new interesting things happening here on the site. :)
Entering the world of Linux can be a bit daunting, sometimes simply because of the vast number of choices of different versions of Linux, called distributions (often shortened to 'distro').
If you haven't used Linux before and you'd like to just give it a try, one of the best ways to do this is with a Live CD. A Live CD distro allows you to boot your computer from the CD and use Linux without installing it to your hard drive and without making any changes to your computer at all. The disadvantage of a live CD is that it's really best only for experimenting and having a play -- anything you do won't be saved when you restart your computer! Live CDs will also be a lot slower than Linux installed on your hard drive.
Ubuntu is a great Live CD distribution to start with. You'll want to download the 'Ubuntu Desktop' file from the Ubuntu download page. The download size is quite large -- you are downloading a whole operating system here!
Once you have download the .iso file, you need to burn it to CD to make your 'Live CD'. However, you can't just copy the file to a CD normally -- you have to make sure the ISO image is properly unpacked on your CD. ISO Recorder is a good, free program to use for this on Windows, or you may already have CD burning software that can write ISO image files.
Once you have used ISO Recorder or another program to burn your new live CD to a disc, you should be able to just reboot your computer with the disc in the drive to start your Linux distribution up. (If that doesn't work, you might need to check your BIOS settings to allow booting from a CD)
Now you can have a play with Linux in this Live CD environment, without affecting anything else on your computer. Later on, you can choose to install the distribution to your hard drive if you want to use Linux more often.
I'm new to the forums. Been using Linux on and off over the years. But for the past month I've been starting to get more serious and investing more time in Linux. I have mostly used ubuntu but now I'm trying out debian now. I'm also interested in CentOS but since I'm still a Linux noob I think I've come to the write place. :)
Posted by: hybrid - 2010-04-15, 03:24 PM - Forum: Linux
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I've just been playing around with the new Fedora 13 Beta release in a virtual machine. It looks pretty attractive and seems to work well (in this VM configuration anyway).
It ships with the Firefox 3.6 release and there's a new photo management app called Shotwell (which has an 'Events' feature like Apple's iPhoto), but a lot of the other new stuff is under the hood, so I'm not sure what other interesting things there are to see just yet!
i have accer emachines atom notebook with fedrora preinstalled and it does not have cd drive.i has 160 hdd. i coped xp from pendrive but it not getting started. the file system it is showing ext4 and others. i want remove them, convert the hdd into ntfs and install xp.i have to some project work urgently.HOW DO I REMOVE EXT4 PARTITION OF FEDRORA AND MAKE A NTFS PARTITION WITHOUT A CD DRIVE. I HAVE USB PORT TO HAVE A PENDRIVE.....
The Apache Software Foundation reports that it was hit earlier in April by a sophisticated attack that compromised user passwords.
Hackers launched a multistage, targeted attack against the Apache Software Foundation's infrastructure April 5 that compromised user passwords.
According to the foundation, the hackers took advantage of an XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability using a shortened URL to target the server hosting issue-tracking software for the open-source group's projects. The foundation uses a donated instance of Atlassian JIRA to track issues and requests, and hosted the instance on brutus.apache.org, running Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS.
"If you are a user of the Apache-hosted JIRA, Bugzilla or Confluence, a hashed copy of your password has been compromised," the foundation said in an April 13 statement on the Apache Infrastructure Team blog. "JIRA and Confluence both use a SHA-512 hash, but without a random salt. We believe the risk to simple passwords based on dictionary words is quite high, and most users should rotate their passwords."
The statement continued, "Bugzilla uses [an] SHA-256, including a random salt. The risk for most users is low to moderate, since prebuilt password dictionaries are not effective, but we recommend [that] users should still remove these passwords from use.
