i-gotU GT200 GPS is the greatest pocket GPS gadget you can find, if you are a geek then this is one gadget you have to get.
 
Why is it so great? It is a really cheap GPS device (around 55$ or 45€), it has a great SiRF III chipset and it works as a standalone GPS logging device because it has on-board memory! Did I mention it is really cheap? ;)
 
i-gotU GT200 software that comes with doesn’t have support for Linux or Mac.
 
The good news is that there is a project called igotu2gpx that adds Linux and Mac support for this great device!
 
To get this utility running on Fedora here are step by step instructions on how to do it:
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When you try to copy one file over existing one as root user in Fedora you will be asked to confirm that action, but as regular user you can overwrite existing files without any question. So you can easily overwrite your own personal files, GNOME settings, documents, images, etc.
 
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To have Blender 2.56 successfully running on Fedora 13 and Fedora 14 you need to compile it from source.
 
This is not as hard as most people would think if you follow these simple instructions.
 
1. Install needed package dependencies
2. Download Blender source
3. Edit scons config file (WITH_BF_FFMPEG = False)
4. Compile Blender
5. Run Blender
 
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I’m looking forward to seeing Moovida in Fedora, but currently it is stuck in bugzilla limbo :(
 
Currently Ubuntu has much better choice of multimedia and media center apps, that is why I hope Moovida gets in Fedora repos soon.
 
If you know somebody who would sponsor this packet please point him/her in the right direction.
 
UPDATE:
Good news is that Moovida available via Fedora 13 and 14 repos for some time now. Bad news is that Moovida project has moved away from Linux and is only making closed source media center that works on Windows only :(
 
Not to sad about it because XBMC is currently much better media center that Moovida will ever be.
 

 
rpm -Uvh http://dnmouse.org/autoten-5.1-6.fc14.noarch.rpm
yum install gnome-do parcellite


 
What is the first thing you did after installing Fedora 14?
 

 
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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Currently I’m testing if it is possible to create btrfs live CD-USB Fedora Remix. If this works next release of Community Fedora Remix will have btrfs by default.
 
What you need to do is to edit Fedora kickstart file. Instead of just one line that creates single ext4 root partiion you also need a dedicated /boot partition. Currently it is not possible to boot from btrfs partition.
 
Original lines from Fedora kickstart files look like this:

part / --size 5000 --fstype ext4

And you need to change so it look like this:

part /boot --size 120 --fstype ext4
part / --size 6000 --fstype="btrfs"
bootloader --location=mbr --append="btrfs"

 
Keeping my fingers crossed that this works ;)
 
UPDATE:
This isn’t working, livecd-creator just fails when use kickstart file that is edited this way. I got a tip to try one different setup:

part /boot –size=128 –onpart=sda1 –fstype=ext3
part pv.01 –size=128 –onpart=sda2 –grow
volgroup VolGroup pv.01
logvol / –size=128 –vgname=VolGroup –fstype=btrfs –grow –name=root –fsoptions=ssd

 
This works so far that it creates iso image but it is ext3 image, and not btrfs?!? Any ideas on how to create btrfs livecd is more than welcome.
 

 
Nakon mnogo mukotrpnog rada, štrikanja kickstart skripti, pravljenja novih rpm paketa i testiranja Community Fedora Remix 13.1 “Lucky 13″ je spreman za download.
 
Dvije su osnovne ideja koje stoje iza Community Fedora Remixa, prva je “više od upstreama” a druga je “multimedija odmah”.
 
Što znači “više od upstreama”?
Fedora je vrlo usko vezana za upstream projekte (GNOME, KDE i sve ostale) te s njima ima jako usku suradnju, takav način suradnje donosi i puno prednosti pri razvoju novih mogućnosti. No bliska suradnja s upstream projektima ima i nedostatak ako netko želi bilo što eksperimentirati s nekim promjena na desktopu to ne može napraviti u Fedori već sve treba prvo dogovoriti s upstream projektima, što ubije sve ideje u početku. Zbog toga je izgled Fedora desktopa malo “zaostao” u odnosu na druge Linux distribucije koje grabe hrabro naprijed poput Linux Mint-a. Ovdje ne mislim na dizajn jer Fedora dizajn tim radi odličan posao, već na ukupan izgled i funkcionalnost desktopa.
 
Kao je Fedora projekt omogućio pravljenje Remix-a iskoristili smo tu mogućnost kako bi napravili najbolji mogući Fedora Remix za desktop korisnike.
 
Što znači “multimedija odmah”?
Druga ideja “multimedija odmah” znači da su multimedia codeci i flash podrška odmah instalirani, nema potrebe za instaliranjem bilo kakvih dodatnih paketa.
 
Ovaj Fedora Remix možete zamisliti kako Pimy My Ride verziju Fedore ;)
 
Jedna od najvećih promjena u odnosu na sve mainstream distribucije je korištenje mintMenu-a i DoxkbarX-a na GNOME sučelju umjesto standardnih GNOME panel komponenti.
 
Ovim putem vas pozivam da se i uključite u ovaj projekt. Ako imate ideju i znanje kako ju implementirati više ste nego dobrodošli. Ako imate samo ideju kako poboljšati ovaj Remix svakako javite, bilo bi nam drago da čujemo vašu ideju, a još draže da se priključite i sami ju ostvarite. Ako nešto i ne znate pomoći ćemo vam oko tehničkih detalja.
 
Za suradnju se prijavite na mailing listu ovog Community Fedora Remix projekta.
 
 
Kako pomoći ovom projektu:
 
- ako imate ideje i znanje:
* kako poboljšati Linux Destop
* koje programe instalirati kao standardne
* koje programe izbaciti s popisa standardnih
* koje GNOME teme instalirati
 
- ako ste grafički dizajner
* pomognite nam u dizajnu web stranica
* dizajn logotipa i zaštitnog znaka distribucije
 
- ako ste web programer
* pomognite nam podići novi web site, forum i sve ostalo što treba
 
- ako ste Linux Ninja
* uključite se u direktan razvoj ove distribucije
 
Za detalje pogledajte i službene stranice.
 

 
I have friend’s Asus eee 701 with only 512 Mb of RAM and 2GB SSD storage. I would like to install Fedora 13 on this netbook and increase SDD performance and speed via btrfs and enabling compression.
 
I immediately stumbled upon some issues:
- Anaconda graphical installed doesn’t support 800×480 resolution
- Anaconda text installer fails on 2GB SDD
- No support for btrfs compression during the install
 
I reported these three issues:

 
Any help with getting Fedora 13 installed on Asus eee 701 with btrfs + compression is more than welcome.