“Con Kolivas has done what he swore never to do: returned to the Linux kernel and written a new — and, according to him — waaay better scheduler for the desktop environment.” You can read here the full story.
 
Has anybody tested this new scheduler? Are there some guides on how to patch linux kernel, compile it and do come comparison tests to stock Fedora and Ubuntu kernels?
 
I’m willing to take my laptop on a spin with new scheduler, just tell me how ;)
 

GPX Viewer is a simple tool but essential if you are OpenStreetMap contributer or if you use gps logs in gpx format, also this tool would be a great fit for Fedora Geo Spin.
 
You can find this tool on it’s Freshmeat homepage.
 
In Fedora this tool is not currently packaged so you need to compile it, which is pretty simple.
 
UPDATE:
Gpx-viewer is currently packaged for Fedora and ready for testing from fedora-testing repository:
yum install gpx-viewer --enablerepo=updates-testing
 
First download and install dependencies for compiling GPX Viewer:

 
Now download, extract, configure and compile it.

 
Now that it is compiled you only need to become root and install it:

 
Homepage of GPX Viewer: http://blog.sarine.nl/gpx-viewer/
 

 
My sister has pink MSI MS-1221 (PR200) laptop with Fedora 11 running on it. She brought it to me so that I can fix some Skype and webcam issues she has. This is the same laptop that System76 uses in their line of Linux laptops (Darter Ultra 2) so I thought that this laptop should have no problems running Fedora 11.
 
The issues were
- webcam didn’t work (it works uder Ubuntu with System76 driver package)
- audio didn’t work on skype
- internal microphone doesn’t work
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