Quote:IntroductionI use Linux every day and more often than not, it's Fedora based. The first linux distro I tried was Red Hat 5 and I still remember installing it multiple times in one day in order to gain a better understanding of Red Hat Linux. I stayed with Red Hat Linux right up until the last free version Red Hat 9. It was a superb release but marked the end of such releases from Red Hat and also the beginning of a new, more open, more co-operative (with the community) and more frequently updated operating system called Fedora.
When I originally wrote The Evolution Of Fedora Core Linux in 2006, I had yet to try Fedora's biggest competitor, Ubuntu and now, some 21 months later I've not only tried Ubuntu (please see my 30 days with Ubuntu 7.04 article) but I have stayed with Fedora unlike some people who seem unwilling to stay the course.
In this article I hope to cover the continuing development of Fedora over the years and give people a chance to learn a little bit more about it since the first release came to life back in November 2003, how the distro has matured and what to expect from Fedora 8 in a couple of days (November 2007).
now when you are using the touchpad in firefox or whatever you'll be happy to notice that your webpages dont jump back/forward for no apparent reason (so annoying).
* change the font size !
when I installed this on a laptop with 1280x800 lcd, the font size was crisp and clear and BIG, very big compared to even F7, so I wanted to make it a bit smaller, to do so click on System, preferences, look and feel, appearance, then click on the fonts tab. I changed the values from point size 10 to 8 for all listed options, I also selected the LCD smoothing option.
I have a system whose configuration is as hereunder:
AMD Sempron processor 2800+ with 1 GB of RAM and two hard disks, one of
120 GB and the other of 320GB.
The partitions are as follows:
Code:
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 2432 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 2433 4864 19535040 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 * 4865 7296 19535040 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda4 7297 14593 58613152+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 7297 7420 995998+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 7421 9852 19535008+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 9853 12284 19535008+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda8 12285 14593 18547011 83 Linux
Disk /dev/hdc: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 25496 204796588+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc2 25497 38913 107772052+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
I have three operating systems in the partitions mentioned below:
Code:
/dev/hda1 RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
/dev/hda2 Fedora Core 7
/dev/hda3 Windoze XP
Today, while trying to boot into Fedora Core 7, the system could not boot and the following message was spit out.
Code:
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
The kernel version of Fedora Core 7 is 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7. Is there any way to set the system right and boot into Fedora Core 7 ? The contents of the file
"/boot/grub/menu.ist" are as follows:
Code:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda1
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img
title Fedora-base (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title Win XP
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
I also ran the command "fsck.ext3 -fv /dev/hda2 after ensuring that /dev/hda2 is unmounted and no errors/bad blocks are reported. Can anybody enlighten me as to how to go about to boot into Fedora Core 7. I further inform that I could boot into the other two OS's, i.e., RHEL-5 and Windoze XP.
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Hello there, I've been having problems running a .bin file, specifically trying to load the Java sdk onto Ubuntu. When I try to run it, I get the error "error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".
I don't know much about Linux, but I know that libstdc++6 is up to date. I have no idea if it'll help anything though.
i hav fedora 7..and hav been using it for quite some time.. suddenly today only my desktop background is appears no icons or menus are loaded .. mouse works .. and i am not able to open the terminal..
PulseAudio is a next-generation sound server for GNU/Linux, creating the possibility of enabling all sorts of "ear-candy": it's possible to dynamically control the volume of individual applications, and hot-plugging works great with it. Read on for more details, including what can be expected in the future.
