August 6, 2009

Fedora 11 – things to remember

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General

Press space on boot to enter grub menu
Select different run-times by Ctrl-Alt-1, Ctrl-Alt-2, Ctrl-Alt-3, etc..

Turn off PC speaker (beep)

su
rmmod pcspkr
echo "blacklist pcspkr" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 11

Installation guide

Install Skype

su -c 'gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo'
copy the following lines:
[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
enabled=1
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc
gpgcheck=0

Then run these commands in terminal
su -c 'yum install skype'
su -c 'yum update skype'

Virtualbox 3

Installation guide

to be continued

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