Linux Kernel 3.6 installation guide for Ubuntu Linux

This short walkthrough describes how to get the linux kernel version 3.6 (latest at the moment of writing) working under Ubuntu Linux without having to compile it yourself.

This guide should work with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux and most Ubuntu-based distributions including Mint.

The included kernel files have been compiled using the generic Ubuntu configuration.

Note: ATI, Intel and NVIDIA drivers are automatically installed using DKMS, if you have these drivers installed and are up-to-date. This is not a guarantee!

Installation Guide

  1. Download the kernel headers package;

    linux-headers-3.6.0-030600_3.6.0-030600.201209302035_all.deb
  2. And the appropriate package for your system
  3. And the accompanying compiled kernel image;
  4. Extra files;
  5. Install the files in the same order as above.
  6. In the terminal run:

    sudo update-grub
  7. Reboot and select the kernel from the bootloader menu

The source can be found on www.kernel.org

How-To Fedora 17 LAMP installation

This short guide demonstrates how to setup Fedora 17 as a LAMP server containing Apache, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and MySQL.


sudo
yum install -y httpd php php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-magickwand php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mssql php-shout php-snmp php-soap php-tidy php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-mhash curl perl-libwww-perl ImageMagick libxml2 php-pecl-apc mysql mysql-server phpmyadmin at ruby mod_python perl mod_perl perl-HTML-Parser perl-DBI perl-Net-DNS perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-ExtUtils-AutoInstall perl-NetAddr-IP perl-Archive-Tar
systemctl enable httpd.service
systemctl start httpd.service
systemctl enable mysqld.service
systemctl start mysqld.service
mysql_secure_installation

Fedora 17 – Ramoonus Edition

This guide describes my customisations done to improve the Fedora Linux 17 Desktop / Server to my preferences

  1. Install Fedora Linux 17
  2. Install Gnome  2 as describes here

Open the terminal and run:

su
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum -y install presto wget
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum install -y AdobeReader_enu dkms java redhat-lsb redhat-lsb-graphics redhat-lsb-printing flash-plugin pidgin google-chrome-stable firefox y
qt-x11.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 libXv.i686 alsa-lib.i686  msttcorefonts