id Software has released the source code for its Quake III Arena for the public under the GPL. That is even before Quake 4 has been released! If you’re interested, you can download the source code here.
Now game writers all over the world can unite and produce some really cool games for Linux, Windows, and Mac. Yeah!
If there was no Perl, I would probably to choose bash and make most of the times. Come to think of it, I am glad that Perl is around.
If you are anything like me and don’t want to disable SELinux upon installation of Fedora Linux, then I have a hint for you.
List all files from selinux-policy-targeted and look at the output. You will the list of all files in the RPM package. Few of those files are SELinux manuals for better tweaking.
/usr/share/man/man8/ftpd_selinux.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/httpd_selinux.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/kerberos_selinux.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/named_selinux.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/nfs_selinux.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/nis_selinux.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/rsync_selinux.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/samba_selinux.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/ypbind_selinux.8.gz
I just fixed two problems easily after looking into the documentation.
One was with bind, which was complaining with “Permission denied” on any incoming zone transfer (slave zone). named had all the access there is to all folders, but still couldn’t write. This command (mentioned in man 8 named_selinuhelped immediately:
setsebool -P named_write_master_zones 1
Anoner problem was with Apache, which wasn’t showing anything in user’s public_html directory. man 8 httpd_linux suggested the solution that worked:
setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs 1 chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t ~user/public_html
I know that everyone is waiting for it, so I’ll break out the good news – Fedora Linux Core 4 is out. I am currently downloading it from one of the mirrors, but the speed is dicreasing. Hopefully I’ll have it before everything stops completely. I will upload all 4 CDs to Thunderworx FTP as soon as I have them. Meanwhile, you can read the Release Notes.
Update: Fedora Linux Core 4 is available via bittorrent.
Update: Official announcement.
Update: Fedora Linux Core 4 ISOs are uploaded to Thunderworx FTP. You can get them from here.
I stumbled upon an interesting tool – Open Text Summarizer. It is a small utility which reads provided text, analyzes it, decides what is important and gives it out either in text, or in HTML as highlighted text. Surprisingly, it works pretty well. I have tried it on a couple of blog items and articles. And good news are that this tool is a part of Fedora distribution. Check it out.
Run it as /usr/bin/ots somefile.txt. If you don’t have it installed, than apt-get install ots.
In fact, it is so good that I might incorporate it into my email client for all incoming English languaged messages. Leaving just 5% of the original message, highlights just a single sentence with all the essence of the letter. /usr/bin/ots -r 5 email.txt for that.