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Cinnamon is a very recent addition to the list of desktop environments available for Linux, BSD and other UNIX-like operating systems. It was started by Clement Lefebvre and his crew at Linux Mint and it is an attempt to make the GNOME 3 desktop more user-friendly. If you are not happy with GNOME 3, and are using Fedora 16, that is, the main edition, which uses the GNOME 3 desktop environment, you will find Cinnamon a lot more fun to use. This short tutorial gives the steps on how to install and use it. Installing Cinnamon entails adding the Cinnamon repository to the system. There are two methods of getting that done. The simplest is to run the following command (as root or with sudo): curl http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/cinnamon/fedora-cinnamon.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-cinnamon.repo Then install the cinnamon package by typing (as root or with
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This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Fedora 16 GNOME classic desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card). With Compiz you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. I will use the free nouveau driver in this tutorial instead of the proprietary NVIDIA driver. nouveau is an accelerated Open Source driver for NVIDIA cards that comes with experimental 3D support on Fedora 16 – on my test system 3D support was working without any problems. This document comes without warranty of any kind! I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! 1. Preliminary Note I have tried this on a desktop system with an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 graphics card. It should work with any other NVIDIA graphics card as well. Please note that Compiz will work only with the classic GNOME interface, not the default GNOME 3 interface. If
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PreUpgrade is an application users run on a existing release, that resolves and downloads packages required to upgrade to a newer release of Fedora. While PreUpgrade downloads the necessary packages, users are free to continue using their systems. This gives an experience similar to a live upgrade. Upgrade to current release directly Preupgrade provides an upgrade directly to the latest version of Fedora. It is not necessary to upgrade to intermediate versions. For example, it is possible to go from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 directly. Prepare the system While preupgrade provides a generally hassle free upgrade experience. The following steps are recommended before proceeding. Backup - Before performing any system maintenance, it is recommended that you back up all important data before proceeding. Update - Apply available updates Fedora updates before proceeding. As the root user, issue the following command. yum update Install - As of Fedora 10, the preupgrade utility is
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This was something I found on the internet and thought it worthy to re-post. It’s got some very valuable information and is a greatly written guide. This wasn’t something I wrote personally. Fedora 16, codename Verne, is available for download and it comes with a lot of new features and bleeding edge software. It comes with the new Gnome Shell 3.2 and KDE Plasma Workspace 4.7 along with Linux kernel 3.1. Grub2 is now used by default and HAL has been completely removed. BTRFS is still not the default file system but you can of course select it during the installation. If you haven’t done so already, download Fedora from here, install it and let’s continue with the post installation guide to configure some basic stuff for Fedora. *Note: In the following tutorial I am using the command line to install software. Of course you can use the software center
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