Moments with Linux

YUM now provides you with the ability to : 1. Download the RPM's without installing them. 2. Just get the list of URLs from where the RPM's would be downloaded. 3. Resolve the dependencies for the package that you plan to download, and get then too along with the package. 4. Get the source if you are intrested in that being more geeky. And not just this much , yum will get you all this specific to your release and arch,so no more no-arch packages. So here is how to go with this : First of all you need to install the package 'yum-utils' as the utility that provides all this functionality using the configuration of YUM. Make sure that this all will work using the repos (software repositories both online and offline (if-any)) configured under /etc/yum.repos.d/ that are used by YUM for package searching, dependency resolution and many other packages related tasks. It all depends on the configuration in the repo files, using which yum will be looking up the packages...

Plymouth is the new graphical boot animation in place of the text messages that normally get shown corresponding to the services getting started. Fedora [Live CD] by default is supplied by only single Plymouth theme knows as 'plymouth-theme-charge', in which the boot process is animated with the Fedora Bubble getting filled up and finnaly it blasts off with white light. There are multiple other plymouth themes provided by Fedora which can be installed using YUM. [root@xbox ~]# yum list all|grep plymouth-theme plymouth-theme-charge.x86_64 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.19.3.fc12 @updates plymouth-theme-fade-in.x86_64 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.19.3.fc12 @updates plymouth-theme-script.x86_64 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.19.3.fc12 @updates plymouth-theme-solar.x86_64 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.19.3.fc12 @updates plymouth-theme-spinfinity.x86_64 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.19.3.fc12 @updates [root@xbox ~]# All of the missing ones can be installed using...

With a aim to have a clean desktop of all of the default icons like My Computer, Sawrub's Home, Trash the Gconf Editor was looked at and here is how to do the same. - Open Gconf-Editor under Application -> System Tools -> Configuiration Editor, if the same is missing install it first. - Navigate to /apps/nautilus/desktop in the left hand side tree - Once there check the right hand side frame for options corresponding to each of the default icons present at the desktop. - In order to disable the Computer icon uncheck the flag against 'computer_icon_visible' - The computer icon will no longer be availble at the desktop. - Similar steps can be followed for other icons.