LIFE ROCKS WITH FEDORA 8!!!!!!

November 8th has been marked as a remarkable day in the life cycle of the open source World. The latest version of FEDORA rolled out from Red Hat's stable . This is version 8 of the OS. In this post I will be describing how I configured this OS on my Laptop.


To start with, the hardware specs of my laptop is as follows :

Model : Lenovo N 3000 ( 0768H2Q)

*> Intel Core duo ( T2250, 1.73 GHz)
*> Intel 950 GMA Chipset
*> 1GB DDR2 RAM
*> 80GB internal + 80GB external Harddrive
*> Intel Wifi
*> Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
*> Integrated 1.3 MP Camera
*> Integrated Authentec fingerprint reader
*> And all other regular stuffs

To start with, the first thing I did was that i read the setup guide at How-to-forge website. The instruction over there are very good but I think the guide for Fedora 7 on the same Website was far better, so I also had a look on the Fedora 7 installation step.

There is also a excellent guide from mjmwired.net website on the Installation.

The installation was pretty simple and I was quite impressed with speed of Installation process.

Important Features of Fedora 8 are :

*> Kernel 2.6.23
*> Fedora 2.0.0.8
*> open office 2.3.0

More can be found out at distrowatch website.

I installed all the softwares for Multimedia.
Installed Compiz-fusion. But there is a work around to make 'ccsm' to work. This work around is given here. A guide to install compiz-fusion is given here.


Lastly, when all these things were done, I searched a lot in the net to actually make my fingerprint reader work. I found out a very new project called fprint. It worked for me and will work for all those who has a authentec chip.

Now after setting up all this, I am using Fedora for last two weeks and is very impressed with it. FEDORA Guys have done a great job. One thing that I loved was the new sound server PulseAudio and the new tool to install all codecs called codecBuddy.

Hope, this post will help all my friends in setting up a perfect desktop with FEDORA 8 and help in spreading this opensource movement to a larger extent.

Please feel free to ask any question you have got. I will try to give a reply.

Bye...Keep Rocking!!!!!!!