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Fedora Configurations Repository

Oh well, I just posted a configurations repo @ Github: https://github.com/renich/fedora-configs

The idea is to provide useful configuration examples; for servers (for now). I have a lot of cleaning up to do and all but, please, feel free to contribute anything you seem might be different and …


A nice alternative to Distrowatch.com

I wanted to find some nice alternative to Distrowatch in order to check some distro's popularity. I found some nice google tools:

# Google's AdPlanner (site profile)

https://www.google.com/adplanner/site_profile

This one seems pretty clear and offers a lot of info on the website. Obviously, all this according …


HowTo: Use zram on Fedora 16

Ok, this one is badly documented. Even the kernel docs are outdated.

Here's how to start using zram on Fedora 16:

# get rpmfusion: http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
...

# install the staging kmod
su -c 'yum install kmod-staging'

# get zram running (aha!)
su -c 'modprobe zram zram_num_devices=4'

# define the block's …

HowTo: Appfirst with SELinux enabled

Ok, first off, I hate people that say "turn off SELinux"... man, those idiots might as well tell you to turn off your firewall and open up your servers to the world.

This sounds like a nice gesture but, in today's internet, it's a shortcut to online suicide.

Anyway, here's …


HowTo: Removing BtrFS from a bunch of drives (BOD)

Ok, I just discovered how to remove BtrFS from a bunch of drives. It got kind of hard at first but, thanks to the #btrfs channel, I discovered how.

for device in sd{d..g}; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$device bs=4k count=1 seek=16; done …