Fedora Rules

It saw this tagline on a danish linux page, it make me laugh, so i must be some kind of a nerd

“There are 10 kinds of people.  Those that understand binary and those that don’t.”

Look like the new way of planet self administration is a good idea, Welcome to all the new faces on the planet.

The new wiki also looks nice, and i couple days ago, it thougt about the best way to get to know mediawiki, was to read to some page and try to fix the problems i found, i have mostly consentrated on the packaging pages.

Most of there errors i found was ‘["PageLink"]‘,  there should be ‘[[PageLink]]’

Example

The was also some ‘[[AchorName| Link text]]’, there should be ‘[[#AchorName| Link text]]’

Example

So trickier was it with some pages there included content from other pages.

In MediaWiki you can include another page by using

{{PageNameToInclude}}

But if you only want to include a part of the page, you have to add some special tags on the page you want to include.

i used the <onlyinclude>….</onlyinclude> tags on the souce page, to make limit the content to be imported.

Source Page

Target Page

More info here

There have always been a lot of whining about Fedora is not supporting all kind of patent
troubled media support. But is so easy to add it, if you live in the right country.

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm
yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad streamer-plugins-bad-extra gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree xine
totem-backend -b xine
This might not be legal your country !!!

If you want to install Adobe flash plugin (Closed Source), it is easy too:

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum install flash-plugin libflashsupport

In the future i hope that free media formats will more used, so we don't need all this s**t.

Thanks to the Livna contributors and others to make it so easy.

EDIT: made some adjustments based on the comments.

My old Epson Stylus C66 printer i not in very good shape any more, so i deceided to buy a new one and ofcause i want a printer working good with Fedora, so before going out to shop i checked this page , So the only good choice is to buy a Epson or a HP, So i deceided to buy a HP because the are active making open source drivers and tools.

I went to the local electronic megastore, to see what kind of HP printer i could get for a good price.

I picked up a HP Photosmart C5280 a multi function printer with a lot of nice features for 777 DKR (155 $)

When i got home and unpacked the beast and did basic setup and plugged it into one of my Fedora 9 Desktops and started ‘system-config-printer’ the printer was detected and was working without i have to doing anything at all, this is how easy printing in Fedora.

Next step was to connect to my old desktop working as a home server (running Fedora 8), so it is possible to print from all the computers in the house.

I just plugged the usb cable into the server and started up ‘system-config-printer’ on my desktop and connected to the server. The printer was also detected here and i set it to the default printer and allowed there printer to be shared. And then is was availabe on all systems in the house trough the power of zeroconf.

It is impresive that adding a printer and share it, can be so easy.

Thanks to all Fedora & upstream contributors to make my life so easy