Fedora

Moblin was a project completed by the Linux Foundation. And Novell has placed tweaks in it already. And I really think that it’s one heck of an interesting project considering what I’ve seen from the user interface a couple of months ago. Here’s an overview of the architecture of Moblin. This reminds me: I haven’t tested Moblin v2 UX yet! So if you’re curious about Moblin, you could take it for a test drive. Those who are after Fedora Mini which has elements of Moblin, you could participate in the Alpha testing of Fedora Mini. Hardware reports would be definitely welcome on their wiki so when you do give it a try, don’t forget to update the wiki page. Access the Fedora Mini Hardware wiki page here. I suppose that those who are more comfortable with Fedora will at least have the chance for Moblin without having to suddenly switch to it entirely.

For those who’d be testing it, I hope to read your feedback soon on this blog! : )  It might still be a bit rough but you could help the community by testing this on your own computers.   The development team would need information from you.

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rpm -ivh <package-name>

You could also install Chromium via Yum and with that method, updates are automatic.

I tried installing the debs of Chromium before and it was really just too slow so I didn’t really use it. Also, I am not a developer so I can’t really push back any improvements to the application even if I wanted to change some things. In any case, it wouldn’t hurt for you to try it. Why not see for yourself what it’s like to have Chromium on Fedora 10 or 11? It would be the best way to find out.

For more details about the guide to installing Chromium on Fedora, head to How to Install Chrome Browser on Fedora Linux that Works!

For more details about Google Chrome, check out Google Chrome’s project page.

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Nifty features:

• 20-second boot-up. How much faster could boot-up times go? But a 20-second boot-up would be nice.
• Automatic fonts and Mime installer. If you’re not familiar with the file format, it’s ok. You could try opening it and you will be prompted if you want to search for the application that will open it. If you’re opening a file in a word processor or something, you will be prompted that the application will install the appropriate fonts.
• GNOME 2.26 – You could get the latest version of GNOME with Fedora 11. And if you’re not a GNOME user, there’s always…
• KDE 4.2 which has PolicyKit-KDE, Network Manager plasma applet among others.
• Invidia graphics cards will use Nouveau as the default driver.
• Access your Microsoft Exchange inbox using OpenChange. You could use Evolution or kdepim with Exchange using OpenChange.

All those features and more are available in Fedora 11. If you’re dying to see some screenshots, you could view h-online.com’s slideshow of Fedora 11 screenshots.

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Fedora

I read about Revisor on Tutorial: Build Your Own Linux Distro and it looks like a nifty tool for those who would want to help out their friends in figuring out what applications in Fedora are useful. This is great if you also want to help out your friends switch to Linux and you’ve got their needs in mind already.

Whether it’s for a netbook without an optical drive or an old machine with a CD-ROM drive and small RAM or a shiny new desktop with awesome specs, you could make a customized distro. Stuff you could customize include:

• Live Media or Standard Installer – choose if you’d rather have a live CD/USB stick
• Repository – where will the files be coming from?
• The software you’d like to install by default – from the desktop environment to the media player to the internet browser; whatever you or your friend might need
• root password, etc. – There might be a chance you’d need administrator access for stuff like installing applications, etc.

And you could use Revisor in the Fedora release you’re using. Whatever version you’re using that is the one that will be included in the CD/USB stick. And you have to make sure that you’ve got the latest patch for the release you’re using (if ever) to keep it up to date.

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• FreeIPA – for managing identities and authentication
• support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
• support for creating and installing to encrypted file systems
• unified installer of packages via PackageKit

Desktop environments such as GNOME 2.22 and KDE4 are available so you could choose either.

I guess that for people who are dual-booting or have other types of file systems on other partitions the best thing in the release is the ability to resize partitions. I’ve encountered people who have had difficulties resizing the partitions on their hard drives and so they have to boot into the other OS in order to do some resizing.

Admins will have even better ways of managing users with FreeIPA — single sign-on for many services is said to be a feature and I’d probably mention that to our sys ads. Single sign-on would be beneficial for users. It’s such a pain sometimes to keep logging on the various services which we are using.

Get your copy of Fedora 9 so you could start fiddling around with it and let us know how it goes! (I am sorry but I am loyal to Debian and Ubuntu… but still! I can’t help but be curious about other Linuxen.)

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