Thursday, December 19, 2013

Workaround for Wired Network Connection Switching with nmcli - Gnome 3.10 Fedora 20


Fedora 20 is released on 17th December 2013. It was shipped with Gnome 3.10. There is a issue with Gnome 3.10 by design. There is no Wired Network Control from Network Manager applet. (GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 708966)

Friday, December 13, 2013

USB Flash Drive Encryption with LUKS and dm-crypt - BitLocker Alternative for Linux


USB flash drives have become common day to data transportation media today. Windows supports disk drive encryption with BitLocker. LUKS with dm-crypt can be used used an alternative to BitLocker in Linux. Following steps can be used encrypt USB drive. Flash drive in encrypted in Gnome desktop in fedora. It was tested and working on KDE,Unity and Cinnamon with Ubuntu and Linux Mint.