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How to remove unused Kernels in Fedora/Centos/Redhat Linux
I have a Fedora 16 system . Through kernel updates now I have several Kernel options when I boot the machine. So thought of removing old kernels.I like to keep the boot process clean. there are few way to remove the kernels that are no longer current. the process is fairly simple, To remove it , run as root # rpm -e kernel-version in a terminal (Main Menu > System Tools > Terminal) where version is the full release number. ...
RAID – why should I want / need it ?
It depends... First, if you dont have anything critically important on your computer, and you are satisfied with its speed, you dont need raid. If your computer is fast enough but has critical data, and you do backups regularly No. Here is where it gets tricky: Raid 0 is just striping, it will give you extra speed in the hard drive reads/writes, BUT you lose reliability - there is no redundancy which is fine as long as you have good back...
Wireless (broadcom-wl) not working in fedora 13 for Dell 1545
Fedora 13 does have support for Broadcom wireless drivers On Dell laptop, but it didn’t really work out on a friend’s laptop. Finally we got it working and I thought I’ll just note the steps down. Below are the three easy steps you need to take to make it work properly. Install the RPM Fusion repos... http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration Install the akmod version of the 64-bit driver... su yum install akmod-wl Rebo...
Swap space in Linux
Linux uses swap space as “extra” memory for pages of application memory that are not being actively used by the application but have been modified .The swap space size plus RAM size is the total amount of virtual memory for the system. When most of the system’s real memory is in use, and there is a need for more,some data will be moved into swap to free real RAM memory for use by applications or for kernel use, such as for driver buffers...
How to Creating a New Partition in Linux
In most Linux systems, you can use the fdisk utility to create a new partition and to do other disk management operations. Note: To be able to execute the commands necessary to create a new partition on Linux, you must have the root privileges. As a tool with a text interface, fdisk requires typing the commands on the fdisk command line. The following fdisk commands may be helpful: Options Description m Displays the av...
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