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Fedora Core 6 Know-How
(1/2007)



»Installing Fedora Core 6

Mariusz Ostapowicz
  Fedora Core is the successor to the open Red Hat Linux distribution, developed by the Fedora Project and financed mainly by Red Hat. Fedora Core is a popular server system. The stated aim of the Fedora Core project is to develop a fully functional operating system based on free software, updated regularly 2–3 times a year. This tutorials shows you how to start with Fedora and install the distribution.


»Configuring Fedora Core 6

Paweł Sadowski
  Configuration is necessary for your Linux box to work and operate as expected. Even though the system will run just fine after simply installing and rebooting, it’s nonetheless well worthwhile providing it with information on how to behave, how to communicate and what not to do. This tutorial describe how to configurate the system because even the best operating system won’t fulfill your expectations if you don’t configure it properly following installation.


»Gain insight into all current activities of employees

Andrzej Witkowski
  CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, is a system whose aim is, by definition, to improve management of relations with clients. The old saying Time is money! works particularly well in this context. This article presents all answers which are relevant for upper management when the company lacks a central database of companies, their representatives and information about amount and quality of contacts with them.


»Large-scale User Authentication with LDAP and Kerberos

Marek Szuba
  Flat-file authentication has been around for quite a while and its reliability is a perfectly good justification for it to have remained the primary and default mechanism in this domain for Unix and Unix-like systems while the other domains evolved and changed; then again, it is by no means the only option available. This article will demonstrate a modern and robust alternative, the gains from which in many cases greatly outweigh the effort of implementing and maintaining it and which is in fact much less difficult to get running than one may think.


»Developing physics toys under Linux

Hampus Söderström
  Most new Linux distributions come with SDL and OpenGL pre installed on the work station versions. ODE that we are going to use can be found on www.ode.org. ODE is The Open Source choice when it comes to physics engines. It is very flexible and has an active community working behind it. This article will show how an easy physics toy under Linux can be created using tree common libraries, OpenGL, SDL and ODE.


»BpmDj – Free DJ Tools for Linux

Werner Van
  BpmDJ annotates all songs with psychoacoustic properties, including tempo, sound color, echo/delay information, rhythm information and composition information. This article shows you how to make a party or another social event with music and how to use your PC running under Linux for this purpose. Thanks to the BpmDj tools, which are made using QT, you will manage, mix and play the MP3 or OGG songs easily.


»Tricks & Tips

Damien Balima
  This short article presents you some basic tricks and tips from Linux world and describes ready solutions to use them at home or companies.


»Interview with Greg DeKoenigsberg

Marta Ogonek
  We present an interview with Greg DeKoenigsberg the Community Development Manager for Red Hat. He's also a member of the Fedora Extras Steering Committee. We asked him a series of questions in regards to Fedora Core 6 release.


»Fedora Core 6. Managing RPM packages

R.Padula&I.Soares
  Fedora Core has a great structure of packages and update. There are many utilities you can use to manage the programs which are installed or even those that are on many repositories throughout the Internet.