The Fedora Core 5 to Fedora Core 6 upgrade follows the general procedure outlined on the first Fedora Core upgrade page: RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Upgrade .  If you have not already upgraded to FC5 please visit  RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5 upgrade. page first before […]

The upgrade here really hasn't changed from the previous ones all that much and the Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5 upgrade is nearly identical to the first upgrade outlined in: RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Upgrade .  If you have not already upgraded to FC4 please visit RedHat Fedora: […]

The procedure for this upgrade follows the same steps outlined in: RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Upgrade with the exception of the below step.  If you have not already upgraded to FC3 please visit RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3 upgrade. page first before going up to FC4. […]

Now that you are at Fedora Core 2 you can jump to Fedora Core 3 as the next step.  For those of you who have been using Fedora Core 2 and have not read Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Upgrade please take a look.  The procedures here are identical except for some minor […]

For those of you still stuck in the old archeic version of Fedora Core 4 or older, perhaps because you have lot's of files stored and documents and do not wish to reinstall the entire OS: it may be time to consider an upgrade.  Thankfully there is a way to do this from Fedora Core […]

If you have MailScanner running in the background, one issue you can run into is duplicate emails.  Try the below to see if it fixes your issue: PROBLEM Receiving duplicate or repeating e-mails in your inbox. SOLUTION

Linux OS does a superb job of handling sound.  Since early on it will even be configured out of the box.  Unfortunately, keeping it that way is an entirely separate matter.  Especially when going through multiple upgrades or installing other packages possibly even applications that may alter your sound behaviour strange things may start to […]

Your RPM GPG Key is missing.  You may receive this error, especially on new installations and when you try to install fresh RPM packages for the first time.  This means you will need to install one: PROBLEM $ rpm -qp –qf i386 /Files/RHEL4-22/RedHat/RPMS/anaconda-runtime-[0-9]* warning: /Files/RHEL4-22/RedHat/RPMS/anaconda-runtime-10.1.1.25-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e i386 $ rpm […]

Sometime back I was wondering how I can get a screenshot in Linux.  I've created this workaround for myself to use from the shell not knowing about the GIMP screenshot capture/aquire function at the time:

Not a big post today.  Just a solution to a problem I ran into earlier.   This may appear self explanatory if you assume disk space issue, as in this case the error is actually not referring to mailbox size. PROBLEM Feb  8 04:02:06 lhs sendmail[4105]: l18924AB004105: low on space (SMTP-DAEMON needs 0 bytes + […]