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!!!!!!!

Back again after a long hibernation........

Well as the title suggests, I am back into business of blogging. I still remember the day when I created this blog page. I started off with a lot of zeal but all went well for a while and then the business collapsed. It's not my fault. Actually, all these happened because of a great virtue that I posses, the virtue of being Lazy.

My friends will be a lot surprised. I know that very well. Well, a lot has changed since my last post and this one. I got transformed from a fully unemployed student to a energetic IT guy, searching for the common goal "Happiness".

By this time, you must be thinking that what happened to the business and why suddenly the business came alive. But I wont give answer of the first question. Leave it....forget it. Let me tell u the reason behind this post( 2nd question ).

Actually, today I got a new broadband connection and so I have a proper place and time to think about being a little creative and still be a technophobic. What can be a better way express other than my old business? So, I am here writing this post with a determination that I will carry on with this job with strong determination.


So, Friends wish me luck and help me to flourish in this wonderful business.

The Open World Lies Ahead

Humans have fought many battle in the past. Some group won and some group lost. From the prehistoric ages we have been fighting over our various needs and rights. When ever somebody tried to take away our basic rights for our existence we have never looked back but fought bravely until we have either won it of we have lost our life.

In today's context, we are in a position where earth has become a global village due to very high level of technological advancement, but still there is a fierce battle that is being fought silently between two groups of people and the worst part of it is that many of us are completely unaware of the seriousness of the war and the consequences.

This war ( I would like to call it a war ) is between the proprietary softwares and the open source softwares. Two groups of seriously talented people are fighting the war since the inception of the modern day computers.

I would gladly accept that I am with the people fighting for the open source world to exist. A man's creation can only be made more beautiful if others can help him to do the job. Moreover, the basic idea of open source world is "Live and let others live". This brings a sense friendliness to this world. Isn't it, that our birth right is to be free? So if this people is helping us to achieve our rights and help the community by taking the help of the community then what is wrong in supporting this community driven movement.

So now if somebody asks me how to help this movement then I would say that it needs just a little time to learn the open source softwares. Just try out linux once. Take help from other to use it and learn it. This is a world where your exploration will never end and the word 'Piracy' will never haunt you. Try it once and you will feel the difference.I am sure anybody will love it once they use it for a little time. After u start using it you will definitely think off delivering something to the community and that day this movement will become the winner.

Lastly, I don't think this war is going to end very soon. It will run endlessly unless 'we' the common man change our mind and come out of the hands of the proprietary softwares.

My Journey starts off from here..........

Today is a very important day for me.... After a lot of efforts from my friends,which failed, I finally started blogging. Much of the credit goes to my two friend Sayantan and Abhishek who helped me a lot in understanding the concept of blogging. May be they will be a little surprised when they see this as they have almost left all their hope and thought that all their efforts went into vein.

Anyway, as everybody knows that I am not that kind of a creative guy(as far as Literature is concerned ) so I will be primarily focusing on technology which interests me a lot. As "computer " is the most passionate word that I know in this world so most of my blog will be related to computers.

As I always thought of sharing my experiences with the world so i found this as a very good medium to pen down all my thoughts and crappy ideas that comes out from the deepest corner of my brain.

Hope every body enjoys it and find it informative............

Thus from here my journey start off.......