If you compare Linux Mint 10 release notes to Ubuntu 10.10 or Fedora 14 release notes it becomes obvious why Linux Mint is so popular.
 
Linux Mint has more features that matter for Linux desktop users that Ubuntu and Fedora combined.
 
Congrats to Linux Mint developers for all their hard work and dedication.
 
So why not join Fusion Linux Fedora Remix and become new contributor so that we can create some healthy competition for Linux Mint. It is obvious that Ubuntu and Fedora aren’t focused on desktop users.
 

 
Phoronix test suite is great benchmarking suite, unfortunately packages in Fedora are stuck at version 1.8.
 
So how hard is it to download and use Phoronix test suite from their site? Actually really easy of you don’t need gui, because running gui has some depencies that aren’t in Fedora.
 
To use cli version just download and unpack the archive and you are good to go.
 
You need two packages that aren’t in Fedora, php-gtk, but php-gtk also has it’s dependency – pecl-cairo. There is a nice howto for installing php-gtk from tar.gz package but it doesn’t work for Fedora.
 
php-gtk needs to be downloaded from svn because tar.gz version is really old and doesn’t work with php 5.3
 
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I’m looking for a new digital camera, I had Olympus C-8080 with 28-140mm F2.4-3.5 lens and 2/3″ (0.58 cm²) sensor as my primary camera for last 6 years, it had great lens and quite bigger sensor than current compact cameras. During diving on this year’s holiday underwater case gave in an screw for flash cable broke and let water in :(
 
So I’m looking for a new camera to replace old and trustworthy Olympus C-8080. I’m looking for a camera that would have bigger than average sensor; most cameras have sensor that is 0.3-0.4 cm2 and Olympus C-8080 had 0.6 cm2 sensor. I’m looking for great image quality camera but don’t want to have big bag only for camera so no SLR for me, and also prices of SLR lenses are too high for amateur photographers like me.
 
What would be my ideal camera? Camera with fixed fast F/2.0 lens, fast focus, 4/3 or APS-C size sensor, 28-200 mm zoom range and rain/waterproof case. Call it anyway you want, it could be called Olympus C-9090, Sony DSC-R2, Canon SXG10, Canon GX1 – I don’t care ;)
 
There are few different lens systems out there, one of more popular ones is Micro Four Thirds. Some manufactures have started releasing cameras with bigger APS-C size sensor.
 
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