Wine works good in RHEL 5.3

Search the below rpm and install it .(i.e., wine).
Step1: rpm -ivh wine-core-1.1.9-1.el5.test.i386.rpm

Step2: open the vlc-1.1.5-win32.exe via Wine Loader.

Step3: Play the desireable video or audio file.

Transmission Bit Torrent Client works good in RHEL 5.3

Google the below rpm and download it carefully. Then install the rpm as shows below.
Step 1: rpm -ivh transmission-1.34-1.el5.i386.rpm
Step 2: Applications-->Internet-->Transmission BitTorrent Client

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Now Available

Highlights of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 include:

• Hardware enablement
The release continues to enable new hardware from Red Hat partners, encompassing processors and chipsets launching in 2011, I/O (iSCSI & iSNS) and multimedia, combined with numerous driver updates. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 provides updated installation media to allow easier installation on new OEM platforms using the newly enabled hardware.
• Virtualization improvements
Several virtualization feature updates are provided in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6. These include support for sVirt (SELinux virtualization), which enables Mandatory Access Control (MAC) profiles to be applied to virtual guests, enhancing overall system security. Additionally, new I/O fencing capabilities enable Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual guests configured with the High Availability (HA) Add-On to be supported when layered on a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization infrastructure. This provides customers with greater flexibility when deploying highly available virtualized and cloud computing environments.
• Updated Domain Name Service (DNS) packages
With updated DNS packages, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 improves the cryptographic signatures that are valuable for high-security installations, such as in the government sector and environments where signed DNS domains are expanding in importance.
• Expanded PHP web application stack support
By incorporating the new PHP 5.3 release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 provides customers with the ability to utilize the latest PHP technology prior to upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
• New printing capabilities
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 provides support for new printing capabilities by supporting the OpenVector Printer driver and by including support for the latest models of printers from HP.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 backports
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 includes a number of features that bring some improvements introduced with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to 5.6. These include support for the Ext4 file system and incorporation of features, such as the System Security Services Daemon and gcc 4.4 compiler, that are compatible with the respective versions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Courtesy: http://www.redhat.com

MP3 Direct cut works good in Ubuntu 9.04

MP3 direct cut utility works good with wine under Ubuntu 9.04
Step 1: apt-get update
Step 2: apt-get install wine
Step 3: open the mp3direct exe file  via wine.

Then you will get the current screen shot. It works good.
Agility available with mp3.

Commands for installing VLC Player in Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10 and 10.04

Command line way

You need to check that a "multiverse" mirror is listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list.

% sudo apt-get update
% sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-vlc

 

How to install Empathy in Ubuntu 9.04

Empathy is the chat client which is developed and maintained by Ubuntu Brainstorm team. This is the first chat Linux client that used for video chat.

Steps to install Empathy in Ubuntu 9.04

Step 1:

First open terminal(Applications/Accessories/Terminal), add the public key from the developers:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com FA3A1271

Step 2: Then,edit /etc/apt/source.list

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Step 3: Add these lines into the file that mentioned in step 2

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Step 4: Update and install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install empathy

Reference: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-setup-voice-chat-with-google-talk-user-using-empathy.html

What is kernel compilation in Linux & How can do in RHEL5

What is kernel Compilation:

Linux is not a user friendly operating system, however it is more flexible than other operating systems. So you can tune the kernel to the desirable style for better performance to work with new hardware or network as well as new configurations with the existing hardware or network.

Kernel compilation has the following 8 steps to do:

1. Download the latest kernel from http://kernel.org

# cd /tmp
# wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-x.y.z.tar.bz2

2.Extract the compressed file into the specified directory It is usually /usr/src/

  # tar -xjvf linux-2.6.25.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src
  # cd /usr/src

3.Install gcc package through yum in RHEL5

  # yum install gcc

You can use anyone of these commands for compiling the kernel in your desirable style

• # make menuconfig - Text based color menus, radiolists & dialogs. This option also useful on remote server if you wanna compile kernel remotely.
• # make xconfig - X windows (Qt) based configuration tool, works best under KDE desktop
• # make gconfig - X windows (Gtk) based configuration tool, works best under Gnome Dekstop.

  # make menuconfig

4.Compile kernel

    Start compiling to create a compressed kernel image, enter:

    # make

    Start compiling to kernel modules:

    #make modules

    Install kernel modules (become a root user, use su command):

   # make modules_install

  # make install

 5. Install kernel

    It will install three files into /boot directory as well as modification to your kernel grub configuration file:

• System.map-2.6.25
• config-2.6.25
• vmlinuz-2.6.25

6. Create on image

  # cd /boot
  # mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.6.25 2.6.25
7. Modify Grub configuration file - /boot/grub/grub.conf

  title           Redhat Enterprise Linux, kernel 2.6.25 Default
  root            (hd0,0)
  kernel          /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 ro
  initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.25

The following are not commands in the file.These are steps in the kernel compilation.
  savedefault
  boot

8. Reboot the system and boot into your new kernel that you have compiled just now 

    # reboot