I was browsing and found some interesting scripts, tools for working with gEdit, the default text editor for GNOME.

• gEdit External plugins, snippets
• gEdit Themes
• gEdit Autocomplete plugin

Just yesterday had an update on Fedora 11 for KDE 4.4. I expected from KDE 4.x legacy that the overall product would be a bit tacky. But opposed to my original thoughts it turned out to be an extremely well polished 'Desktop'.

The settings were very easy to navigate, with lots of Compiz settings available easily without a lot of 'extra' installations as in GNOME. The overall stability of the desktop too was strong. I'm considering to run KDE 4.4 for atleast a week as suggested by one of my sysadmin friends.

This edition reminds me of the good old stable days of KDE 3.x

I finally managed to get a new Laptop, Acer 4736Z. I'd to wait before Fedora 11's download was complete and I could install it.

Overview

• Graphics card works out of the box (1366x768 resolution)
• Sound is detected well
• Wireless and bluetooth are working
• The Web Camera is detected and working well
• The Brightness control doesn't work
• The gsynaptics had to be installed to enable tap on the touchpad

All and all it looks good. Here is a screenshot.

Pulseaudio CPU usage
Great work, Pulseaudio in F11 uses lesser CPU as compared to Fedora 10 Pulse Audio

Guys using Fedora 10, must've seen this problem of Pulseaudio taking high CPU usage. After a lot of tweaking, I came to this. From System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Sound

Change all the drop downs to ALSA. Just make sure u "Test" and hear the tone before applying the changes.

Update

I've done this yum remove pulseaudio. This removes the root cause :)

Configuring Wifi on Dell 1525 with Fedora 10 wasn't much a problem. I enabled the RPM Fusion Free and Non Free repositories. And used the following command.

yum install broadcom-wl

Rest of the control was taken by GNOME.

India too can take a cue from Russia, who is working with Fedora guys to develop an official Russian OS. India too could save millions by by-passing the Windows licenses.

Reference: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/1446207&from=rss

Fedora 10 is finally out, Marking over 5 yrs of development.

Features

• Faster boot time with Plymouth boot
• GNOME 2.24
• KDE 4.1, Newer version over the buggy, KDE 4.0x
• OpenOffice 3.0 included
• Complete rewrite of PulseAudio Sound Server (read as Efficient and lesser bugs)

I'm going in for it, as soon as the download is complete!

Ref: Fedora 10 Release Notes

Adding a Fedora 9 DVD as a yum repository is extremely easy in Fedora 9.

For slow internet connections, using yum could be pain, as most of the software can be installed from the DVD itself. But yum resolves dependencies from the net. Adding a Fedora 9 DVD as a repository is like a boon to such users.

Follow the steps using a root user

1. Pop in your Fedora 9 DVD, It should be automatically mounted on /media/Fedora 9 i386 DVD/ folder
2. Create a new file fedora-dvd.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ folder.
3. Put the following contents in the file

   [fedora-dvd]
   name=Fedora 9 DVD
   baseurl=file:///media/Fedora%209%20i386%20DVD/
   enabled=1
   

4. Disable fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo, by assigning the parameter enabled=0.
5. Run the command yum repolist
   You should be able to see fedora-dvd as enabled.

Thats should be it. You are free to install packages from the DVD directly.

Fedora 6 gives one of the best support for Indic (Indian - South Asian) languages. It compiles its default Web Client, and Mail client with Pango Support to enable the complex rendering of the Indic fonts. The Default Firefox and Thnderbird thus harness the true power.

Enabling Hindi Support

Login as a root user, and then use the following command.
yum groupinstall <language>-support
In case of Hindi, I've used, yum groupinstall hindi-support

This will install basically three things.

• Hindi fonts
• SCIM, Simple Common Input Method
• Open Office Hindi Language Pack

Once done, Just run scim-setup from the console, to setup the SCIM for the first time, and then Log-off and log-in again.

Fedora is out with its new Release Core 6, and a new DNA theme to match its release

Take a look...

• Default background:
• Default GDM Theme:

Find more over here.
Fedora 6 Graphics

Update: This Tue, 24th October, Fedora 6 is releasing and guess what, even Firefox 2 is hatching.