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In an ongoing effort to prevent premature kitten death, the Fedora Project is ecstatic to present the availability of Fedora 10 (Cambridge) Alpha. Test now, make it better now, keep Cambridge on schedule, and protect the kittens in the future. Read more Read More »

Next month, Cirgon will announce and ship a Fedora Linux-based media server that supports 1080i HD resolution. The Encore offers 320GB, 500GB, and 750GB hard drive options, and controls management and playback of music, photos, and video for use with an HD-based home theater system.
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Last month, I wrote about confining the user with SELinux. I explained that–as of Fedora 9–SELinux supports the concept of the confined user and comes with 5 confined user types defined.

• guest_t – Terminal login, nosetuid, nonetwork, noxwindows, noexec in homedir
• xguest_t – X Windows Login and terminal login, nosetuid, nonetwork, noexec in homedir
• user_t - X Windows Login and terminal login, nosetuid, noexec in homedir
• staff_t - X Windows Login and terminal login, nosetuid except sudo
• unconfined_t – Full login, able to run with almost all privs as with SELinux disabled.

These confined users are a great starting point, but what if you want to create a confined user with different privileges?

I want to create a limited privilege terminal login user with the ability to send mail and read/write files in the /maildir directory.

My son Timothy uses his confined xguest account, but is not happy because he wants to communicate with his friends using AOL.

Fedora 9 has the solution. The SELinux management environment (system-config-selinux) has been updated and includes the ability to build customized SELinux policy modules for the confinement of users.

Remember, this tool is just a wizard–it helps create a framework for building policy. You can then use tools like audit2allow or the package eclipse-slide for further editing of the policy. Thiswill give you a good head start.

In the toolbar panel select:

System->Administration->SELinux Management

This starts system-config-selinux.

Select Policy Module and then Select the New button.

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If you see error infor. “Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy“,that means Yum is updating by itself,no worry. Of course,you may shut down the updating process by below two ways Read More »

Fedora 9 audio player solutions:
# yum install rhythmbox gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-ffmpeg
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I was ever sick of Fedora’s yum downloading speed,because i am in out of America.After read several documents,i found out the way to speed up yum downloading.Their are 2 principles to speed up yum downloading,the first is to use better download tool,the sencond is to user faster source.You know,yum supports plugin,this fuction brings us more convinences.I have sumed up my experience to be 3 points to instruct how to speed up yum downloading as following:~ Read More »

I bought a 4G Sandisk Cruzer Mico Thumble USB flash today,I tested it with Vista,all are just fine,it supports Vista’s Readyboost very well,however it doesn’t support Fedora LiveUSB stick which was creat by Liveusb-creator.Whenever I boot it,i just see a blinking “-” ,nothing else.What’s wrong with it?
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If you are sick of the screen says”"Booting Fedora in N seconds, press any key to enter boot menu” and waits N seconds till booting start for Fedora 8,you can try this tips:

Edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file and place a # infront of hidden. It will now always bring up the boot list.

Fedora 8 Games Spin(Live DVD) is one of the bright spot of Fedora 8. This spin is made for game fans, it contains many kinds of games in linux world.Don’t miss it if you like playing games. Read More »

Fedora 8 Test 2 was released .This test version’s new features as below: Read More »