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The Fedora Community released re-spins of Fedora Core 5 last week. It incorporates the latest updates available for the release which leads to less download time after your installation. The kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 shipped with FC5 disallowed the loading of any non-GPL modules. This was quickly fixed but marred the release.

Additionally the Fedora Community plans to re-spin often. Re-Spins will be provided each month for supported releases. This is a welcome addition for people that wait until a release settles down and mirrors the consistent release schedule that commercial vendors are adopting.

The crontab file is used to schedule commands. To use it you must remember the format it expects. It is not how shall we say mnemonic. In trying to remember the format, I came across a good linuxjournal article that had an easy way to remember it.

Add a header comment that provides the proper sequence:

$ crontab -e

# ****************Roots crontab***********************

# minute (0-59),
#    hour (0-23),
#       day of the month (1-31),
#          month of the year (1-12),
#             day of the week (0-6, 0=Sunday),
#                command

If you do not want to start X automatically edit the /etc/inittab
file like this:

id:3:initdefault:

Wireless support in Linux is still an area that needs work. Currently
there is no reliable UI like in Windows that lists all of the networks
that are available, however there is a way to get the information from
the command line.

Use the following procedure to determine what wireless networks
are avilable:

1. Open a terminal and switch to the root user
2. Issue the command /sbin/iwlist scan
3. The results should list all of the ESSID’s available as well as
   information on Channel and Encryption information.

To add additional sites that have RPMs for Linux:

1) Add the site to the yum config file under /etc/yum.conf

Example:

[atrpms]
name=ATrpms for Fedora Core $releasever
baseurl=http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-stable

2) Find the sites public signing key

Example:

rpm --import http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms


Now when you do a yum install or update that site is added to sites
searched for RPMs. A note, be very careful with sites that have RPMs at
what’s called RPMS.at-bleeding since these tend to be the raw
development builds and can lead to “bad things”…..

When switching networks the DHCP lease on a network adapter such as eth1 is not always cleared causing problems connecting to another network. You can manually remove the lease by going to:

/var/lib/dhcp/*.leases