Category Archives: Fedora

Fedora, Linux, System Administration

Testing Fedora 40 KDE (RC1)

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Fedora 40 + KDE 6 (Wayland): Quick Reality Check

Things I Tested (and What Actually Happened)

A few days ago, I was genuinely worried about this release. KDE 6 on Wayland is known for breaking quite a few workflows, so I prepared a checklist in advance of things I absolutely needed to test in Fedora 40 KDE (no X11 by default). You can find that checklist here: https://www.unmanarc.com/en/2024/02/things-to-test-in-fedora-40-kde-no-x11/. Let’s see how things actually turned out.

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Fedora, Linux, System Administration

Things to test in fedora 40 KDE (no X11)

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I have a personal list that I want to test in Fedora 40 with KDE 6… I will update the results after the release…

  • KeePassXC AutoType
  • ssh -X (I want to execute some visual app from a remote host running F40 and from F40)
  • Installing it in a qemu/kvm VM… (and GUI performance!)
  • KRFB (VNC)
  • xrdp
  • fullscreen sharing (like google meet, zoom?)
  • program sharing thumbnails
  • HIDPI behaviour (4K)
  • Nvidia card performance…

Fedora, Linux

Fedora 11 Review

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Fedora 11 was released on date June 9, 2009 after a lot of delays caused by bugs in the installer. This new version of fedora is one of the best releases from fedora 1.

The main features are:

  • 20 seconds boot
  • EXT4 used by default
  • Finger print reader capacity enabled on gdm and screen savers
  • Fixes on QEMU and KVM integration
  • Kernel 2.6.29 with 2.6.30 backport
  • Realtime kernel feature, less battery consumption!
  • AES-256 use with XTS-256 by default for whole hard drive cypher
  • Yum presto (Delta RPMS)
  • Per application independent volume control
  • DNS Security
  • Less memory consumption
  • KDE 4.2 (Available from fedora 9 in updates)
  • Firefox 3.5

Next… a review of these features…
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Cryptography, Fedora, Information Security, Linux, System Administration

Speeding up or Securing up the Encrypted Root Filesystem on Fedora 10

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Fedora, and some others Linux distributions doesn’t provide you any simple way to setup the cypher properties on root filesystem.

Here, we will provide you enough information about the cypher process on fedora and one technique to speed up and/or secure up the cypher using XTS instead CBC-ESSIV
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