Relax

I'm on break from school. Happy Holidays!

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Tags: General 

Notes on configuring CentOS

CentOS has a nice, clean default installation. It is not bloated with too much crap (which is how I often feel about ubuntu). This however can lead to some headaches when configuring it. I will keep notes here of what I do to configure CentOS 5.2.

First things first: get some 3rd party repositories for YUM. After a bit of searching, I found instructions on how to install RPMForge -- a 3rd party repository of common programs for linux. Following the guide is a snap, and once it was installed, I was able to install things like VLC and madwifi.

Update

Once madwifi is installed, the wireless card can be configured with iwconfig and dhclient. After installing the wireless card, there isn't much to do but fine-tune and install things like flash and java. I had to manually install flash by copying the shared object file -- for some reason the install file wouldn't recognize my firefox directory.

Tags: Technology