I have an old Asus 1000HE Eee PC (32-bit, 2GB RAM, 128GB SSD).  Fedora 21 with Gnome Shell runs ok, but as I only use this netbook to browse the web, I figured I'd try to figure out how to launch Chrome as the desktop environment, cutting Gnome Shell out completely.  In the process of trying to determine which lightweight … Continue reading Chrome as your desktop environment

Reminder to self: When installing EL7 (RHEL7/CentOS7) on a old Acer Aspire 5520 laptop, fetch and install the following RPMs from elrepo.org: kmod-ath5k kmod-nvidia-304xx-304 nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-304 kmod-forcedeth Output of lspci (to add searchable keywords to this post): 00:00.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP67 ISA Bridge (rev … Continue reading EL7 on old Acer Aspire 5520 Laptop

Some friends in NYC have given Ryan his first Red Hat!  Now, I just need to decide if his first language will be C or Python ...

The following commands will create the appropriate firewall rules for a RHEL7 system running IdM/FreeIPA #> firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http --add-service=https --add-service=ldap --add-service=ldaps --add-service=kerberos --add-service=kpasswd --add-service=dns --add-service=ntp #> firewall-cmd --reload