some users allege that fedora users are beta testers for RedHat. but to me, it is a never-possible-before way of experiencing the cutting edge technology in this arena. fedora is comparatively stable and does not cause that severe problem to the users though RedHat do not provide any on-demand service for it. another allegation was about the lack of user friendly GUI tools to manage the system. it is good to see that linux variant of operating systems are getting more and more user friendly day by day. i am not a linux expert. but many a time i was asked by my friends how to play this, how to play that and bla bla bla.this time i am going to hint out some of the easiest how tos. unfortunately if internet connection is not available, this is of no use.
installing beryl:
beryl is a tool for experiencing eye candy in linux. it provides much more options than mac or vista. beryl depends on the 3d performance of the graphics hardware. but unfortunately open source graphics hardware driver cannot provide 3d support at this moment(though it will be available in a short time. its code name is ‘nouveau’). so we have to use nvidia or ati provided graphics driver. so fire up terminal and write:
#>yum install kmod-nvidia // for nvidia
#> yum install yum install xorg-x11-drv-fglrx kmod-fglrx glx-utils // for ati
wait for installation to finish. after completion write:
#> yum install beryl
after completion write the following in terminal to enable beryl:
#> beryl-manager
thats it and see what u r upto.
playing mp3, wma:
there are numerous mp3 players for linux but i prefer audacious. to install it issue the following command in the konsole:
#>yum install audacious audacious-plugins-nonfree-mp3 audacious-plugins-nonfree-wma
playing video and dvd disc:
looks like no one is better than vlc. so let it be. open the terminal and say:
#> yum install vlc
and it is done.
