RPM-Based

This tutorial will go over the step to go through in order to set up a serial console on Linux.

Serial Console becomes handy when running a headless server (i.e no keyboard and screen) or if you cannot connect a a server because of a network issue.

Red Hat based distribution come with a set of command line utilities to manage services and daemons: chkconfig and service.

chkconfig will allow you to manipulate if weather or not a service should be started for each runlevels.
On the other hand, service will let you start, stop and get a service status at run time.

This tutorial will explain how you can activate/desactivate and change service status using both chkconfig and service

Subtitle Editor a GTK+2 tool to edit subtitles for GNU/* is now available for Fedora 7.

Packaging is a cool feature when you want to have a software easily installed on different machines. On top of that, it is easier to manage installed packages, remove them or update them.

This How-To will explain how to create a distributable package using rpmbuild package. This tutorial was done on a Fedora 7 machine but should be working on Red Hat and CentOS.

Finally, RPM-based.org is born. RPM-based is going to aim at providing tutorial, how-tos, tips and tricks for... :) RPM-based distros.