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Fedora 11

The Fedora 11 Feature List seems to cover alot of the Ubuntu 9.04 ground. Everyone seems to be on the 20 second boot wagon. The only thing I'm presuming will be a problem is that you don't get a one click MP3 support install as for Ubuntu. So Fedora 11 still requires...

Ubuntu cannot Ping a FQDN when avahi-daemon is running

My work laptop recently suffered a massive loss of disk space on the Windows XP partition resulting in Ubuntu 9.04 appearing in the boot menu 🙂 but I ran into a ... Problem: I was trying to setup Evolution Exchange by entering the Exchange Server name using the Fully...

Sendmail from the command line

echo -e To: 'The Persons Name ' \\n\\n Body of mail \ | /usr/sbin/sendmail -F "From Name" \ -f from@address.com -t to@address.com.au Where -e says I want to interpret \\n as a newline. -F is the from description -f is the from address -t is the to address Example:...

Linux /tmp size for DVD burning

I was just trying to burn the Fedora 11 Preview DVD in XUbuntu and the default burning application logically uses /tmp as the location for temporary image files. However my /tmp only had about 2.9 GB free space The DVD is 3.8G and so the DVD burn failed due to lack of...

Ubuntu equivalent to rpm -qf /path/and/file

In RPM based distros you can issue the command rpm -qf /usr/bin/dig and it will return the installation package name I don't know if this is the 'proper' way to do it but it works: dpkg-query -S dig | grep /usr/bin/dig dnsutils: /usr/bin/dig

Ubuntu 9.04 – jaunty released

I have been running a release candidate version of Ubuntu 9.04 on a laptop for a few months now, and it has given me confidence that the latest version of Ubuntu will be good to install on the desktop. Several of the nagging annoyances that caused me to bypass Ubuntu...