My Fedora Core 6 Experience

I installed Fedora core 6 Linux on my system. My system details are as follows:

1) Intel 845 chipset Motherboard
2) Samsung 7200 RPM 40 GB HDD
3) Intel Celeron 1.7 G.Hz. Processor
4) 256 MB DDR2 RAM

As far as the installation is concerned, everything went successfully and easily. Installation has been made simpler much of the geekish installation options have been replaced with simpler options, which even a newbie to the Linux can understand very easily. Another functionality, which has been added to the anaconda was ability to add extra repositories and update software from there. BTW, the installation went smoothely and my new fedora system was up and running within 1.5 Hours. Now, the main part was configuration. As with the previous versions, media support is not very good.

First step to configuration of fedeora system is configuration of yum. For this, I added livna repository with the following command:

    rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm

This command adds Livna repository to yum configuration. Then I installed 'yumex' - a frontend for yum on fedora system. This can be done with following command:

    yum -y install yumex

After this, many people may not like, but my next choice was to setup an extra package manager - smart. For this, used following command:

    yum -y install smart smart-gui

Having done with all the setting up of package managers, I installed the videolan client, which can play virtually any kind of media, with the hope that it will install all the codecs. And it did not dissapoint me. It did install many codes including mp3 and some other codecs. Following command was used for installing videolan

    yum -y install videolan-client

Now, I can play DVD and other media with the help of this player. I hate the notion of installing lots of media players on a single system, when just one is sufficient. But for browser plugins, I installed mplayer-plugins

    yum -y install mplayer-plugins

One more mediaplayer that I like id banshee

    yum -y install banshee

Now, I am a PHP developer. In other to install all the pear packages, I used smart:

    smart install php-pear*

This command installed 58 packages on my system.

I use Bluefish web editor for editing my PHP scripts. So next I installed bluefish

    yum -y install bluefish

Also, I use screem in order to edit some web pages. So, installed screem

    smart install screem

I will keep updating this blog as I do more and more configuration.