Vimal Sudhan
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Booting to terminal with Grub
May 4th
Quick boot to terminal comes handy, when you want to make full system update (yum update) or maintenance. You can boot into terminal without using a rescue disk or installation media by following these steps. Read the rest of this entry »
Gwib your tweets!
Mar 29th
Started using Gwibber, few days ago. Its a microbloggin client. I quite liked it. Very simple. Easy to use.
It supports Twitter, Facebook, Statusnet, FriendFeed, etc.
If you have seen my twitter status, you might have noticed it.
Gwibber is in fedora repo. Just useyum install gwibberto install.
Don’t forget to enable editor in menu or else you will be wondering how to tweet 
Installing Google Chrome in Fedora
Feb 9th
Recently, Google has released its own chromium build for fedora. You can get it here This will add Google’s repository into your system to keep chrome up to date.
However, if you don’t want to add Google’s repo and want to stick to premium fedora builds, you can follow below method.
Tom ’spot’, Fedora engineering manager has his own repo, in which he maintains Chrome packages for fedora and are always up to date. Its available for Fedora 10, 11 and 12.
To install chromium in this way, first you need to create a new repo.
Login as root and then
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo
If you are a GUI guy, then
gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo
Add up the following lines into file:
[chromium]
name=Chromium Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
That’s it! Now yum it
yum install chromium
If all done for success, your chrome browser is ready to browse. Find chrome in application menu -> internet.
Enjoy Google’s Chrome! Try not to give monoploy to Google
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