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Tag: Fedora

  • Fedora 15 Tweaks

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    I used Instapaper to save a number of tweaks to Fedora 15 that I thought I might like after I settled in.  I didn’t want to make a large group of changes to remain behind without giving myself a chance to truly get settled into appreciating a different workflow and point of view on the…

  • Switching from Ubuntu to Fedora and Mint

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    I switched my desktops off Ubuntu to other Linux distributions.  It isn’t a great sacrifice as I use multiple Linux distributions in any case; although, for a moment all of the Desktops in my house were Ubuntu and it did make it nice for the casual user. The problem was Unity and issues ranging from…

  • Google Talk Does Video Chat

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    Reading the Google Talk Blog I find that Linux is now supported for Voice and Video Chat.  http://www.google.com/chat/video.  Give it a try!  I know that is is supported on Ubuntu and I haven’t gotten a chance to try it on Fedora yet.

  • Installing Free and Nonfree Repositories

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    RPM Fusion RPM Fusion provides software that the Fedora Project or Red Hat doesn’t want to ship. That software is provided as precompiled RPMs for all current Fedora versions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5; you can use the RPM Fusion repositories with tools like yum and PackageKit. RPM Fusion is a merger of Dribble,…