SOME TIPS FOR FEDORA USERS

1. Cool Desktop Effects: You can enable desktop effects by going through System->Preferences->Desktop Effects and there enabling desktop effects. Effects include Alt+tab utility, 3d flipping of workspaces, animated minimizing and maximizing and other cool things. The best thing being it doesn't slow down the computer.

2. Easy Explorer: If you are frustrated by the explorer of the Fedora which keeps on opening new folders in new tabs then go to Edit->Preferences and in that go to Behavior Tab. In that tick the option-”Always open in Browser Windows”. Click ok.

3. Install Software: To update or install any software in Fedora, one can use yum. Yum is a software which can automatically resolve dependencies, unlike RPMs, which sometimes, fail to install due to failed dependencies.

To install a software using yum, the syntax is

yum -y install application-name

To do full system update

yum update

You must be root to run the yum command.

3. Important Step: Fedora Packages are often found in stores called as repositories. There are 3 repositories enabled by default- core extras and update. However, these do not contain multimedia and other 3^rd party softwares which are often quite necessary. These are contained in the two repositories named-livna and FreshRPMS. To add these two repositories try the following commands as root user.

rpm -ihv http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/6/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

rpm -ihv http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/livna-release-6-1.noarch.rpm

4. Why no Sound: If your sound card has not been detected, check the status of your sound card at the following link : http://alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ . You can also try and update ALSA by running the command:
yum update kernel alsa-lib alsa-utils
ALSA is the "sound system" used by Fedora Core. It has drivers, libraries and utilities. The drivers are included with the kernel package.

5. Fedora BUG: Fedora Core 6 has a bug by which it installs i586 kernel for i686 architectures also. If you have a P4 PC and your kernel is i586, then you can better your system by running the script available here.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=kernel-fix.sh

6. Playing MP3: To get mp3 plugins and other softwares, just visit the following link: http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc6-tips.php

Following command will help: yum -y install xmms xmms-mp3