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50 Best Free and High Quality Games available on Fedora

Richard — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:40:16 +0000

Most of the best Linux games from my previous post are available in the official Fedora repository. These games can be installed easily using the yum command. All the games are native to Fedora, some of them are free but not open-source.

Games for Fedora repo

1. Urban Terror

yum -y install urbanterror

It's been a long time since my last post but now I'm back again

Richard — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:34:22 +0000

It's been a long time since I made my last post on this blog. I've been quite busy with my work and other activities but now I'm back and blogging again. Thanks to all the visitors who are still visiting my blog even though I have not updated this blog for a long time. I think it’s about time to start posting some new stuff here.

How to install World of Padman in Fedora 14

Richard — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:27:07 +0000

This tutorial provides step by step instructions on how to install World of Padman on a Fedora 14. World of Padman is cartoon-style, first person shooter game where players must take on opponents across wide variety of giant maps. Its a free, colorful, funny and awesome game.
To install World of Padman, open up your terminal and type the below command as root.

yum -y install worldofpadman

How to install Urban Terror in Fedora 14

Richard — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:02:59 +0000

Urban terror is a great FREE FPS Game with low system requirements, it features realistic game play similar to counter strike and works flawlessly in Linux. Its easy to install, its available in the repository so installation in Fedora is very easy, you just need to type one command.
This installation tutorial is intended for Fedora 14. To install Urban Terror, open up your terminal and type the below command as root.

yum -y install urbanterror

Play DotA clone Heroes of Newerth on Linux Natively For Free

Richard — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:13:58 +0000

Heroes of Newerth (commonly known as HoN) is a free-to-play action/real-time strategy game based on DotA. The developer S2 Games announced last Friday that HoN is now free-to-play. HoN is heavily inspired by the popular Warcraft 3 mod, Defense of the Ancients (DotA), but with vast improvements in graphics and gameplay. In HoN, two teams of up to five players each take on the role of special Hero units. With the assistance of AI-controlled armies, each team sets out with the sole objective of destroying the other team’s base.

100 Best Free and High Quality Linux Games

Richard — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:56:12 +0000

There are literally thousands of games that can be played on Linux, if you're a casual gamer or hardcore Linux fan who is looking to have a bit of fun on your favourite distro, there's plenty of games to choose from.

If you are unsure what to get, this list will help you out. This list includes all the popular and free high quality games that runs on Linux natively, from action/first-person shooters to real-time and turn-based strategy games to rpg/mmorpg etc.

If you have more games that you would like to recommend, feel free to share it.

Below are the list. Have fun!

How to install Oracle Java Runtime Environment in Fedora 14 (64-bit)

Richard — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:04:31 +0000

This tutorial is for the installation of Oracle Java Runtime Environment in 64-bit Fedora systems. The installation process is slightly different from the 32-bit.

1. Install these libraries that needed by Java.

yum -y install compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33

2. Go to the site below and grab the latest version of Java Runtime Environment.
http://java.com/en/

IMPORTANT: Make sure to download only the "Linux x64 RPM *".

3. After downloading the file, make it executable and install.

How to install Oracle Java Runtime Environment in Fedora 14

Richard — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:44:07 +0000

Fedora 14 comes with the open source Java called OpenJDK which is working fine, but if you have issues on it or its not working for whatever reason and you want to install the original Java from Oracle, just follow the tutorial below.

This is a straightforward tutorial on how to install Oracle Java Runtime Environment in Fedora 14.

1. Install these libraries that needed by Java.
Open up your terminal and run this command.

yum -y install compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33

How to enable 1:1 NAT in Iptables

Richard — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:32:33 +0000

1:1 NAT maps a single Public IP Address to one of your computer within your local area network (LAN).
Unlike port forwarding, 1:1 NAT forwards all ports from one external IP to one internal IP.

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 192.168.1.2 -j SNAT --to-source 83.229.64.2

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -d 83.229.64.2 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.2

iptables -A FORWARD -s 83.229.64.2 -j ACCEPT

iptables -A FORWARD -d 192.168.1.2 -j ACCEPT

How to enable Port Forwarding in Iptables

Richard — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:25:57 +0000

What is Port Forwarding

Port forwarding allows remote computers, for example, computers on the Internet, to connect to a specific computer or service within a private local area network (LAN).

Gmail Video Chat is now available in Fedora

Richard — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:39:58 +0000

RPM version of Gmail video chat for Fedora is now available for download.
You can download the file from http://www.google.com/chat/video/download.html

Gmail video chat is now available for Linux Users

Richard — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:01:47 +0000

Gmail video chat now supports Linux, but it supports Debian/Ubuntu systems for now. RPM version for Red Hat/Fedora will be available soon.

You can download the plugin here.

Source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/use-linux-now-you-can-video-chat-t...

How to install and configure VNC in Fedora 12

Richard — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:33:08 +0000

Open up your terminal and install tigervnc via yum.
Type this command in your terminal:

yum -y install tigervnc tigervnc-server

Edit the VNC configuration file

vi /etc/sysconfig/vncservers

and append these lines:

VNCSERVERS="1:user"
VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 800x600 -depth 16"

Where VNCSERVERS= is for configuring the username.

How to fix X11 Forwarding in CentOS 5

Richard — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:27:42 +0000

This tutorial describes how to fix the ssh X11 forwarding problem in CentOS 5.5 server.

Autoselected keyboard map en-us

ERROR: Failed to open display:

Make sure that the "xorg-x11-xauth" is also installed in your system. If not, this comm

yum -y install xorg-x11-xauth

Ensure that "X11Forwarding" is enabled in your ssh server configuration file. Edit the file "/etc/ssh/sshd_config".

How to disable IPV6 in Fedora 12 and CentOS 5.5

Richard — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:44:14 +0000

This is a quick tutorial on disabling IPV6 in Fedora 12 and CentOS 5.5

echo -e "install ipv6 /bin/true\nblacklist ipv6" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ipv6.conf

Stop ip6tables service and disable it from starting automatically at system boot.

service ip6tables stop

chkconfig ip6tables off

How to delete data inside MySQL table

Richard — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:30:43 +0000

If you want to delete a record from any MySQL table then you can use the delete command. The delete command is very similar to the update command.

delete from table where where_condition;

The delete statement deletes rows from a table.
The table is the table name.
The where clause specifies the conditions that identify which rows to delete.

How to update data inside MySQL table

Richard — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:28:46 +0000

Here's how to update existing data into MySQL database table.

update table set column='new_value' where where_condition;

The update statement updates columns of existing rows in the table with new values.
The table is the table name.
The set clause indicates which column to modify and the values they should be given.

How to insert data into MySQL table

Richard — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:33:22 +0000

Here is a general form of insert command:

insert into table (column1, column2) values (value1, value2);

The insert statement inserts new row into an existing table. The table is the name of the table into which we want to insert data, column1 and column2 are column names and value1, value2 are values for the respective columns.

Example:

How to convert xls files to csv in Linux

Richard — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:56:05 +0000

Install xls2csv

yum -y install xls2csv

To convert your xls file to csv, just type this command:

convertxls2csv -x filename.xls -c filename.csv

This script is very useful if you have a lot of excel files to convert. This will help you save a lot of time than converting it one by one.

#!/bin/bash
for files in *.xls
do
convertxls2csv -x "$files" -c "${files%.*}.csv"
done

How to configure Java plugin in Google Chrome beta in Fedora 12

Richard — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:29:45 +0000

If you don't have a Java Runtime Environment installed in your system, you can follow this guide. Download and install the beta version of Google Chrome for linux from here or install it using yum, you can follow my tutorial here.