Tutorial
How to install Soas on your regular box
Soas (Sugar on a Stick) is a LiveUSB system with sugar on it. It is based on Fedora. You can carry it and boot anywhere as you want like any other live system. You can download the ISO from here.
I was using it on a Eee PC (4GB model), suddenly thought of installing it on the system.
The other Fedora based systems have an option on desktop to install on hard disk, but this system is running sugar so no desktop means no such option. From the #fedora-devel I found the command is “liveinst” which is part of anaconda.
So I installed anaconda ( #yum install anaconda ) and then used the command “liveinst” ( without quotes) , this will fire up the installer for you. Then go through like any other installation.
After finishing the installation I found X was crashing, tried with many different config but nothing helped. Finally decided to install gdm and gnome on that box ( #yum install @gnome-desktop gdm ), also installed system-switch-displaymanager using which I changed the display manager to gdm. Next task was to change the init to 5 in inittab. Rebooted and found gdm , chose “sugar” as the desktop option and logged in :)
If you want any help come to #sugar on freenode.
Meet the contributor: Parag Nemade (aka paragn)
In this edition of meet the contributor series we are happy to introduce Parag Nemade , currently the only sponsor for Fedora packaging from India. Still now he reviewed more than 625 packages. Watch it in youtube or download the ogg.
Linked lists session on #dgplug, Friday, 8pm IST
Debarshi will take a session on linked lists at #dgplug tomorrow 8pm IST. This is a part of the summer training sessions
Ksnapshot, the photographer in your computer
Ksnapshot, the photographer in your computer. This application helps you to take screenshot or snapshot of your system. You can use those screenshots to describe your problem/points in a better way. It can even take snapshot of any particular window or a region. You can even add some delay, after which it will take the snapshot.
Watch the video here.