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29 May 2016

Install OpenZWave on Raspberry Pi 3

This article explains how to install OpenZWave on Raspberry Pi 3, on Fedora 23 Minimal version (but it should be usable for other distribution).
If you need to install or complete your Raspberry Pi 3 installation on Fedora 23 Minimal version, for the most lightweight, you can read part 1, and part 2 of my articles.

Ensure to have the same path for a specific USB device

This article explains how to ensure to have the same path for a specific USB Device on Raspberry Pi 3, on Fedora 23 Minimal version. It should be useful for all other kind of GNU/Linux installation.

18 April 2016

Setup Raspberry Pi 3 Sound - on Fedora 23 Minimal version

This article explains how to properly setup Raspberry Pi 3 Sound, on Fedora 23 Minimal version (but it should be usable for other distribution).
If you need to install or complete your Raspberry Pi 3 installation on Fedora 23 Minimal version, for the most lightweight, you can read part 1, and part 2 of my articles.

17 April 2016

[2/2] Install Fedora 23 Minimal version (lightweight) on Raspberry Pi 3

This article explains how to complete installation of the most lightweight Fedora 23 Minimal Version on a Raspberry Pi 3, including full Wifi support, automatic @IP binding connecting to your DHCP server, and various interesting things.
You must follow the instructions of the first part prior to this one.

13 April 2016

[1/2] Install Fedora 23 Minimal version (lightweight) on Raspberry Pi 3

This article explains how to install the most lightweight Fedora 23 Minimal Version on a microSD card, dedicated to a Raspberry Pi 3.
If you're looking for

10 April 2016

Easily get log messages of a specific service from the current boot (with journalctl)

Although systemd improved greatly alot of things compared to system V, logs can become messy.
You can very easily get

6 April 2016

Find easily a package with dnf or yum providing a library, header ...

Although it's not always well known, dnf (and yum) supports a very interesting and powerful command: provides.
For instance, it's very useful to fix issue like

4 April 2016

Fix Font issue after Fedora Upgrade

After upgrading Fedora, you may face fonts issue because the default value has changed, but has not been updated during the upgrade process.

3 April 2016

Restore previous mouse acceleration behavior on Fedora 22+

After upgrading Fedora, you may face new mouse acceleration behavior, that looks

Upgrade GNU/Linux Fedora from 21/22 to 23 (with dnf)

Like explained in this articleFEDora UPgrader (fedup) is deprecated since Fedora 21, where DNF system upgrade plugin became the recommended method to upgrade Fedora.

This article will explain how to use dnf with its system upgrade plugin, to Upgrade from Fedora 22 to

28 March 2016

Upgrade GNU/Linux Fedora from 18 to 22 (with fedup)

Although FEDora UPgrader (fedup) has been introduced in Fedora 17, there were too much problems to be used properly.
In addition fedup has been deprecated since

27 March 2016

Upgrade GNU/Linux Fedora from 14 to 15, 16, 17 and eventually 18 (with yum)

To upgrade GNU/Linux Fedora from 14 to 15, 16, 17 and eventually 18 with yum, there is no problem; you can follow the same instructions from

31 July 2013

Setup local DNS server to bind ALL subdomains

There is various situation where binding ALL subdomains to a specific applications (local or intranet) can be needed; for instance

2 May 2013

Disable users login during server Maintenance

In some situations, when performing server maintenance, it is needed to ensure no user can login to avoid data loss or interference.
It can be easily done by

26 April 2013

MySQL Innodb disaster recovery

After crash, disk failure ... some MySQL part can be broken.
According to the corruption, there is some solution to recover data.

29 September 2012

Mount logical volumes (LVM) partition from external Disk

According to OS and configuration, volume may not be automatically activated (e.g. if you have just plugged it in).
In such case, you can

31 August 2012

Resolving name conflict with logical volumes (LVM)


In some situations, you may encounter several volumes (LVM) with same name.
In this case, you can't mount all logical volumes in same time, and you can't use vgrename "OLD NAME" "NEW NAME".
This is an easy solution to

Reboot is allowed even if mdadm is resyncing RAID members

When managing RAID with mdadm tool under GNU/Linux, you may wonder if a restart is possible when resync of members is in progress.

The answer is: YES, it is possible.

After a reboot, the system will continue resyncing members until the end, whatever the count of restart.
It is an useful information when you want continue installing/configuring your OS without having to wait until the end of resync.

14 September 2011

Activate logging for Mozilla applications (Firefox, Sunbird, Thunderbird ...).

There is many applications using NSPR, including Mozilla ones (Firefox, Sunbird, Thunderbird ...).
NSPR provides a set of logging functions which can be activated with