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Fedora Solved has been created by concerned peers in the Fedora Community to bring quality HOW-TO solutions to the Community. These are members of the Community who want to see the best solutions find its way into the hands of the Community. Members may include site maintainers, Fedora Project contributors, and interested users like you.

Install Solutions

Verifying Fedora media SHA1SUM
This howto will show you how to verify Fedora media downloaded from an official Fedora mirror.
How Much Space?
This is a Small Guide on How Much Space you should reserve for your Fedora Core installation, and where to allocate the space. Of Course, this will not be valid for 100% of cases, but is a general frame.
FIX: Intel 965P based motherboards
When installing Fedora you may encounter a kernel panic in the very beginning of the process. This is something experienced in other GNU/Linux distributions as well and it is related to incorrect identification of the 965P as G965 (kernel issue).

Network Solutions

iptables Howto
A Howto on using iptables to configure your firewall
Fix problems of miscellaneous network services
A bug in anaconda and another in system-config-network can lead to a broken /etc/hosts file. This results in various networking services not starting or otherwise missbehaving.
Networking Fundamentals

Peripheral Solutions

Canon Pixma iP1500
This article focuses on the step-by-step process on installing printer driver for iP1500, but may also apply to iP1000, iP2200 and iP4200, with some minor changes in the procedure.
Configuring a 5 Button Intellimouse to work in FC
Configuring an advanced input device like this Intellimouse with 5 buttons can be tricky. While this method was tested on Fedora Core 4 it should work on other versions of Fedora Core and could also be modified for other Linux distributions.
Using akmods
How & why to use livna's "automagical" akmods instead of regular kmods (kernel modules).

Server Solutions

iptables Howto
A Howto on using iptables to configure your firewall
Fedora Core: Connecting to an ADS Server
As many Fedora Core users may note, there are times when Windows just does not cut it, and you would rather be working on your data in Linux instead of Windows. During those times you may find it necessarry to connect to a Server 2003 ADS. This soulution came about for just one such ocassion. We are not going to cover the requirements in this procedure as this solution is not recommended for a new Fedora Core user, this is tailored for an advanced user that would have the knowledge to join a domain with their Fedora Core machine. Also assistance will be required from the Administrator of the domain, should that not be you!!
Installing Zope+Plone on Fedora
This guide will help you set up your own Plone site using Zope and Apache on Fedora Core. Zope is capable of acting as a standalone server, but we use Apache and its URL rewriting engine (mod_rewrite) to give us more power and flexibility.

Post-Install Solutions

Installing Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Client on Fedora 8
The Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Client is a remote access client that allows people to connect to applications available on central servers. The purpose of this how-to is to resolve the "missing dependency : libXm.so.3" problem that you face when attempting to install it on Fedora 8.
Setting Up Bittorrent and Bittorrent-Gui
BitTorrent is a client application for the torrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol created by programmer Bram Cohen. BitTorrent is designed to widely distribute large amounts of data without incurring the corresponding consumption in server and bandwidth resources (and typically, monetary fees attracted as a result of that). The original BitTorrent application is written in Python and its source code has been released under the BitTorrent Open Source License (a modified version of the Jabber Open Source License), as of version 4.0. The name "BitTorrent" refers to the distribution protocol, the original client application, and the .torrent file type.
Configuring SUDO
It is a known fact that operating a computer as administrator (or root in linux) is very bad. This How-To covers how to configure and use sudo to perform commands as root, allowing you to do what you need to do, and still behaving like a moderately responsible person. There are two parts: part one is configuring sudo to allow users in the group "wheel" to run commands as root. Part two is adding users to the "wheel" group. Allowing users to run commands as root without first requiring a password is a potentially dangerous thing. Extra care should be taken if you choose to let sudo run without a password.

Security Solutions

iptables Howto
A Howto on using iptables to configure your firewall
SELinux Module Building
Building modules for SELinux to allow specific actions. This also covers the basic concept(s) of testing if SELinux is the culprit. This howto is specific to Fedora Core 5.
Securing SSH
This howto outlines a few extra steps that can be taken to further secure a SSH server, chiefly from the constant onslaught of automated brute-force password attacks.

Browser Solutions

Sun Java Development Kit Installation
This is the safest method of installing the Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) which can be used to for compiling programs in Java. If you have the JDK installed, you do not need to install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) since it is already included in the JDK.
Netbeans IDE install
This will show how to install the opensource Java IDE Netbeans. One of the more popular and easy to install IDE's with lots of additional features.
Speed Up Firefox
A tweak to Firefox to allow it to load pages quicker, utilizing multiple connections to a single site.

Gaming Solutions

Installing Steam Using Wine
This howto covers Installing Steam onto your Fedora using Wine.
Finity Flight II
This will install Finity Flight II Episode III: Beast's Wish. However this howto applies to all Finity Flight II Episodes I-III.

Video Solutions

Installing and running AIGLX on Fedora
This how to will take you through the steps to install Aiglx using the Nvidia drivers version 1.0.9626.
xorg Radeon driver HOWTO
A solution for those ATI GPU owners who cannot start an X server using the xorg Radeon driver.
Setting Up Beryl
Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users. Above all else, the project seeks to listen to and respond to the requests of the user base. This will go through the steps of installing it.

Multimedia Solutions

Audio capture in Skype and other devices
If your skype test call doesn't give your voice back then you may have to enable your "microphone capture" an your "mic boost" devices. Note that this aren't the "microphone" device. This also applies to any other program that need microphone capturing, as the ekiga VoIP service, and is not skype unique feature.
Installing Win32 Codecs
This howto covers installing the windows media codecs for use on Fedora.
Audacious (formerly known as Beep Media Player)
Audacious or BMP as it was formerly known, is a rewrite of the classic XMMS player with a new, modern interface and various other featurs you would expect from a modern music player. All while keeping true to the lightweight, simple no-nonsense music player ideal. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 files, aren't included in Audacious by default. You can add support for mp3 by installing an add-on package from third party add-on repository rpm.livna.org
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