Fedora
How to export a NFS volume in Fedora or RedHat Linux
May 9th
NFS stands for Network File System and is a easy way to share files across Linux systems. However the downside of NFS file sharing is that shared folder can’t be protected with a password. But you can limit access to particular IP addresses.
The Fedora Linux system comes up with NFS utilities by default. Otherwise you can install them using “yum” as shown below:
[root@techpulp ~]# yum install -y nfs-utils rpcbind
You can enable the NFS service to start at boot time using the following commands. The “rpcbind” service also needs to be enabled as NFS internally using RPC service. But if you More >
Fedora 11 (LEONIDAS) gets ready to hit the road by end of May
May 8th
The upcoming Fedora 11 release, named Leonidas, is scheduled to be released towards end of May. This release comes up with all latest versions of desktops like KDE, GNOME, XFCE and popular applications like Firefox, OpenOffice.org etc. The following are the notable features in this release.
- EXT4 as default file system
- KDE 4.2, GNOME 2.26, Xfce 4.6, OpenOffice.org 3.1.0, Firefox 3.1, Thunderbord 3
- Improvement in time taken for start up and shut down (20 sec start up)
- Simplified volume control
- Native Windows cross compiler
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