Slashdot Mirror

I'd start by learning how mirroring works. It's obvious you don't have a clue 'cause if you did, you wouldn't be posting this question here. Slashdot is not the place to get this knowledge.

Start here:
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/How_to_setup_and_manage_your_disk_software_mirroring
and learn how software mirroring works first.

Go to the manufacturer's site of your motherboard for the hardware info.

If you need to do a different OS, search for "How do I set up disk mirroring in [OS]" in google.

Google is your friend. Once you know how the different systems of mirroring work, and what their advantages and disadvantages are, you can make your own informed decision. Seriously...

-AC

The article tells the KDE version included.

Both KDE and XFCE have been included in the test version repositories, so they should be in the final release.

I have not used Red Hat since version 4.2, but I think I'll give the live dvd a spin to see what they've changed since then. I'll probably stick with debian and Zenwalk as my main distro's though.

Thanks for the encouragement to use BackupPC. I had installed it in the past, but got bogged down in the complexity of the server-side setup. However, due to your encouragement, I found a nice-looking howto and am going to give it another shot. Thanks!

announcement
There must have been some issues.

Not a few cores, just one: Core 5. FC6-test2 has been delayed due to breakages involving Xen ( http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1372 ).

I didn't think the free drivers had full 3d acceleration. If they do, I may switch.

By the way, I forgot to mention above that the latest version of fglrx is missing a file (good grief!), but you can find it on the Internets. See http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1014.

that has nothing to do with the success of fedora, the fedora foundation was trying to be a legal entity to handle the legal aspect of the distribution and it was determined it was too cumbersome to be effective
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/583

"Ah, but you can always build the Rawhide release on FC4" I hear you cry - sorry, bzzt, neither Firefox nor Thunderbird 1.5 will build without some mods of the respective Rawhide .src.rpm files. A very poor showing from Fedora devs there - let's happily jump to OO.org 2.X in the middle of FC4, but not go up a minor version of Firefox/Thunderbird during the same period.

In the end, I lost patience and packaged up the original mozilla.com binary .tar.gz's into RPMs using Thomas Cheung's Firefox/Thunderbird instructions, but I really shouldn't have to do this!

"Ah, but you can always build the Rawhide release on FC4" I hear you cry - sorry, bzzt, neither Firefox nor Thunderbird 1.5 will build without some mods of the respective Rawhide .src.rpm files. A very poor showing from Fedora devs there - let's happily jump to OO.org 2.X in the middle of FC4, but not go up a minor version of Firefox/Thunderbird during the same period.

In the end, I lost patience and packaged up the original mozilla.com binary .tar.gz's into RPMs using Thomas Cheung's Firefox/Thunderbird instructions, but I really shouldn't have to do this!

I don't normally respond to my own posts, but I provided an incorrect link for the installation instructions for Fedora.

Here are the Fedora instructions

I run synaptic on FC3, it works just fine. Follow the instructions at http://fedoranews.org/contributors/stanton_finley/ fc3_note/

My question is " How is this different from NoMachine's NX Server?"

NoMachine and their NX server also allows you to testdrive a linux desktop on windows, over a remote connection. I found my FreeNX server usable even over dial-up, and could show my parents what my linux desktop looked like, and think it might be a useful migration step for some users. It's even bundled with Knoppix.

She's got a NetGear MA-521 which I got to work under redhat 9 (with much effort) documented here for anyone interested, and there's also a good ndis wrapper tutorial for this card here.

My plan though, is just to get a plain-jane orinoco/hermes card for about 20 bucks... actually already have a "spare" that she could use (I know this particular card to work out of the box on most linux distros) but I already have plans for that in my old POS omnibook.

There is a great tutorial available here:

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/free nx/

I just used the precompiled RPM's for fedora. Using FreeNX is definately a good replacement. I use it on my iBook to connect to my Linux Desktop at work via ssh and nothing more.

It's fast as hell too! Definately usable via dialup.

According to Vonage Holdings Corp. CEO Jeffrey Citron, intentional blocking of Voice over IP traffic is more than just a competitive dirty trick -- it's an act of censorship against free speech.

I'm in two minds about this. I think Vonage is very quick to fly the "Free Speech" flag and look for support from civil libertarians (and libertarians), but there's a couple of pieces missing from that picture. First is that Vonage recently admitted that they would co-operate with government spy agencies to provide backdoors. (See the VoIP panel report from SCALE3x

Now that the crowd was smelling blood another audience member asked whether or not these vendors would co-operate with foreign national governments to provide wiretap access. This appeared to agitate the panel members extremely and drew vocal reactions from most of the audience. Jeff Bonforte answered that they were a US corporation answerable to no-one but the US government and that their customers were buying equipment shipped from a US address, so why would they need to co-operate with a foreign government? The questioner then proceeded to point out that if the foreign government were a member of the WTO then they would possibly be obliged to co-operate. Darryl Strauss appeared to agree that international treaties might put a crimp in this feisty stance. There was some intimation that we all had the possibility of encryption anyway, and that moving to VoIP didn't make the situation any worse or better. The panel appeared keen to reassure the audience that this perceived problem did not matter, with Jeff Bonforte noting that at one of his previous gigs they had received frequent law-enforcement requests and although they had attempted to comply with them it was hard to get the logs and to track down the specific information requested. The result he intimated was that the requesters frequently gave up. Interestingly, given the obvious interest of the crowd in this topic and the reflexively defensive reaction of the panel, it turns out that this was one of the pre-tabled questions which the panel had agreed not to discuss because "it wasn't interesting"!

The second is that Vonage is looking to piggyback it's own private service over the back of an infrastructure created to allow all of us to communicate cheaply with each other: the internet. They don't have a god-given right to use it and they're using bandwidth shared by all of us (and often provided by heavy government subsidy using our tax dollars) for their own profit. Whining about how they're not allowed to use this for their own purposes makes about as much sense as Spam Kings whining about their Free Speech being suppressed.

On the other hand it's obviously the case that long-distance phone calls are vastly overpriced and could be done cheaper and provide many more interesting services than the current oligopolists are doing.

SCALE 3X - The 3rd Annual Southern California Linux Exposition by Oisin Feeley

SCALE 3X - OpenEMR, XRMS, CRM and open source medical applications by Jason Riker

SCALE 3X - Windows to Linux, Remastering Knoppix, Personal Linux (3 Reviews) by Ken Leyba

LinuxJournal:

SCALE 3x Wrap Up Report

SCALE 3X - The 3rd Annual Southern California Linux Exposition by Oisin Feeley

SCALE 3X - OpenEMR, XRMS, CRM and open source medical applications by Jason Riker

SCALE 3X - Windows to Linux, Remastering Knoppix, Personal Linux (3 Reviews) by Ken Leyba

LinuxJournal:

SCALE 3x Wrap Up Report

SCALE 3X - The 3rd Annual Southern California Linux Exposition by Oisin Feeley

SCALE 3X - OpenEMR, XRMS, CRM and open source medical applications by Jason Riker

SCALE 3X - Windows to Linux, Remastering Knoppix, Personal Linux (3 Reviews) by Ken Leyba

LinuxJournal:

SCALE 3x Wrap Up Report

Red Hat got a lot of flack for previous Fedorae that were too buggy or made it too hard for independent developers to write into the repository.

Fedora 3 seems to be better (been running it for a couple of months), but I do notice the annoyances like lack of fonts, shockwave, acrobat, flash player, java, nVidia X drivers, etc. that one comes to expect.

Red Hat can make a fine living by loading the luxury items onto Fedora 3 and calling it RHEL 4, providing support, etc.

But with other developers also providing pathways for making Fedora 3 nicer, Red Hat is implicitly providing RHEL 4 low-cost competitors.

Red Hat must feel they can provide a product that customers will want to pay for despite the competition. Or, maybe the customers will feel more comfortable buying into an enterprise service agreement with Red Hat because the Exit door is visible just because such competition exists (remembering their experiences with MS where there's no where to run if you're dissatisfied except off the cliff).

The author, Aron Hsiao, describes his book this way:

"I wrote this book to help real people learn to use Red Hat's Linux products in real situations; I have tried to write with current Windows or Mac OS users in mind. There's minimum of fluff or unnecessary technical jargon; instead, I try to give clear, concise instructions in step-by-step format for performing common tasks in Linux . . ."

You may want to check out Fedora News and The Fedora Project.

These also support RDP and VNC protocols by converting to the compressed X protocol, which also gives bandwidth gains over the raw RDP/VNC. Check out this description of the technology.

Recent versions of Knoppix live-CD include the NoMachine client and FreeNX server, making it easy to test it out.

Sera

How often do you need to run an X app across the wire?

Every day. X needs better network transparancy, not less. Keep in mind that for local delivery, X uses unix domain sockets which impose no observable overhead.

FedoraNews is looking to send a few good geeks to SCALE 3x in order to report on the talks, expo floor, and other events. SCALE is an open-source conference in Los Angeles, CA.

here.

The page also includes a mini Howto.

I made my own RPM based on Mr Chung's directions for an earlier version of Firefox, before he posted his 1.0PR RPM on the FedoraNews site. So my one download counted for multiple machines. But now your download wouldn't be counted if you just install his RPM.

It isn't a really significant issue. But since people were questioning multiple downloads, the real issue there is whether uncounted downloads offset multiple downloads. There's no sure way to know. But the two do in effect cancel each other out.

I'd say it isn't anything to worry about. The download counter is probably a very good indicator of Firefox's popularity.

Fedora Core 1 and 2 already have backported security updates for this as 1.2.5-7 and 1.2.5-8 respectively since yesterday. Much better than having to install a release candidate.

Fedora Core 1 and 2 already have backported security updates for this as 1.2.5-7 and 1.2.5-8 respectively since yesterday. Much better than having to install a release candidate.

Remote vulnerabilities are always annoying. But in this case the target is an obscure optional Netfilter module, not something that will bring down just any Linux machine. There is no distribution that ships a default iptables script that uses a tcp-options based rule (unless you've recently released your own distro ;). I'm not even aware of any popular iptables generator frontend that would make use of tcp-options. It's not really a big deal.

All relevant distros have already released updates packages... last month! In that way Gentoo Security is a latecomer to the party. In no way is this bug deserving of its own Slashdot story at this point, maybe when it was fresh but even that is debatable.

Sort of, it'll definitely fix the local DoS bug, but it won't give you 2.6.7 (yet). Red Hat patched the bug some days ago already.

You can keep up to date regarding regular updates and security errata at Fedoranews.org FC2 updates page.

Copy and paste from here


It turns out that the bug (#115980) is a result of a few subtle but key changes within the 2.6 kernel. A certain functionality with regards to hard disk geometry has been pulled out, as the kernel developers thought it would be better if userspace utilities took care of this instead. The Bugzilla bug is related to CHS geometry problems, which most likely stems from an error within the parted utility, addressing the BIOS incorrectly. It turns out that BIOS updates tend to fix problems for many users that have been bitten by this "bug". On newer machines, this is basically non-reproducible.

I haven't gotten it to work yet, but didn't put that much effort into it since I've got a nice orinoco card that just works. There's a howto here, I'm planning on following those insturcuctions with my iwp2200bg.

FedoraNews.org has a great tip on installing the isos over NFS . This way you can save yourself a few blank CDs and the actual installation takes no time at all.

2. You agree that Macromedia may audit your use of the Software for compliance with these terms at any time, upon reasonable notice. In the event that such audit reveals any use of the Software by you other than in full compliance with the terms of this Agreement, you shall reimburse Macromedia for all reasonable expenses related to such audit in addition to any other liabilities you may incur as a result of such non-compliance.

yum and apt both use rpm repositories by default, so there's no need to force them to only use RPMs.

up2date doesn't use the RHN on Fedora anyway, so what you do is change the RPM repositories in up2date config (/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources) to match those in yum (/etc/yum.conf). Then the crazy little update icon will turn red and alert you to available updates, and obviously they will be in synch with each other. The sources file has a pretty good explanation of this, so crack it open and RTFM. Check Fedora News for tips and FAQs on yum and up2date. (You will want to find the closest, fastest RPM repository to use for your configs.)

apt-get has a different architecture, so I don't know if it can readily use the same package repositories that up2date and yum use. I have used it early in the FC 1 release, and never had a problem with the RPM database.

However, in looking through the messages, I found that there is a document on how to use mirror servers as a source for updates. I'm surprised that Fedora doesn't have a system for balancing clients to different mirror servers, a la Gentoo, but now that I've picked a few mirrors, things have been a lot smoother.

Maybe this is obvious -- I donno.
If you are interested Fedora, check out:
Fedora News
(unofficial site).
Lots of good stuff there.

What wrong with the implementation

The fact that Fedora (supposedly one of the better Linux distribs in terms of automatic hardware configuration) needs to have a webpage describing technical, per-application instructions to enable sound mixing.

Users coming from Microsoft Windows get blindsided when a Linux app freezes up from audio IO contention, as in their experience that problem was solved back in 1997.

Alsa already does software mixing. What wrong with the implementation (I use it all the time)?

Actually, yes

Try reading the instructions here: HOWTO: Fedora Core 1 with kernel 2.6 Worked like a charm for me!

Not even Microsoft can make .NET scalable enough to sustain a good ol /.'ing.

It's only scalable if you plan it that way. The site seems to be working fine now (did you click on the correct link?) and if you had visited it you'd see:

It's an experimental research project run by the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research

You expect a research project to be primed for loads of traffic? Of course, we all know that no Apache server has ever been slashdotted...oh wait, this just in from fedoranews.org

NOTICE 2004-02-05 11:00 AM
Sorry, we've been slashdotted. The KDE 3.2 articles will ben turn off for next few days.

From netcraft:

The site fedoranews.org is running Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.26 on Linux.

Hopefully fedoranews.org "will ben" turn on the articles soon. In the meantime, wwmx.org remains available for browsing.

KDE 3.2 by Krishnan Subramanian

Today I installed KDE 3.2, third major release of award winning KDE3 desktop platform, on my Fedora box. I have been using KDE 3.2 RC for the past few days and the final version from today. My first impression is "wow".

KDE 3.2 provides an integrated desktop along with various applications to carry out common desktop tasks such as web browsing, email, instant messaging, multimedia, graphics, etc. Some of the impressive features which you will notice include

• Increase in speed evident from faster application startup time
• Improvements in usability and performance
• Better appearance through interface refinement
• Browser performance boost evident through better webpage rendering

Upgrading to KDE 3.2 is a breeze. If you are a newbie and want to learn how to do it, you can refer to my HOWTO. I started my installation and within few minutes I am logged into my new KDE 3.2 desktop.

The desktop is very polished and you can configure it in any way you want by right clicking on the desktop. You can setup your desktop background as a slide show so that the background picture changes at predetermined intervals. The style and window decorations are very refined increasing the overall appearance. I love plastik for style and window decoration. A better icon set is also available. Now that you can find a wide array of themes and icon sets in www.kde-look.org, you can customize your KDE desktop in any way you want. In fact, you can even select the KDE splash screen (which appears when you login) from the available choices.

The K Menu is better organized now. It is grouped into "Most Used Application", "All Applications" and "Actions". Even the applications are grouped in a much better way compared to earlier version.

The new KHotkey feature is really hot. You can create keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures for various tasks. This comes very handy. People used to such features in Microsoft Windows environment will love this feature. It is really cool to press the "Windows" key in your keyboard and see KMenu pop up in your screen.

The control center is well spruced up and better structured in KDE 3.2. Some of the tabs like background, window decoration, style etc. are redesigned.

Some of the welcome addtions to control center are

• Splash Screen - where you can select a KDE splash screen of your choice
• Wireless Network - where you can configure your wireless network. You can save upto four different configurations.
• Vim Component Configuration - where you can configure Vim to use inside KDE
• KHotkeys - where you can specify keyboard shortkeys and mouse gestures to lauch applications in KDE
• KDE Wallet - where you can configure KDE Wallet to store your internet and local passwords
• Sony Vaio Laptop - where you can configure the hardware for this laptop

KDE 3.2 has more countries under Country/Region. Also these countries are better organized. This is a very positive step in the internationalization efforts of KDE.

Another welcome feature in the control panel is the "Font installer". With this, installation of new fonts is a breeze. This is very useful for people who want to install their regional fonts and other extra fonts (many fonts are available in kde-look.org). The best aspect of the font installer is the instant preview available with it. I feel this is one of the greatest additions to KDE.

Many new applications are added and some of the existing applications have been upgraded. It is quite impossible to discuss all the applications available in KDE 3.2. I will just discuss some of the applications based on my preferences.

Konqueror: This is the central part of KDE e

KDE 3.2 by Krishnan Subramanian

Today I installed KDE 3.2, third major release of award winning KDE3 desktop platform, on my Fedora box. I have been using KDE 3.2 RC for the past few days and the final version from today. My first impression is "wow".

KDE 3.2 provides an integrated desktop along with various applications to carry out common desktop tasks such as web browsing, email, instant messaging, multimedia, graphics, etc. Some of the impressive features which you will notice include

• Increase in speed evident from faster application startup time
• Improvements in usability and performance
• Better appearance through interface refinement
• Browser performance boost evident through better webpage rendering

Upgrading to KDE 3.2 is a breeze. If you are a newbie and want to learn how to do it, you can refer to my HOWTO. I started my installation and within few minutes I am logged into my new KDE 3.2 desktop.

The desktop is very polished and you can configure it in any way you want by right clicking on the desktop. You can setup your desktop background as a slide show so that the background picture changes at predetermined intervals. The style and window decorations are very refined increasing the overall appearance. I love plastik for style and window decoration. A better icon set is also available. Now that you can find a wide array of themes and icon sets in www.kde-look.org, you can customize your KDE desktop in any way you want. In fact, you can even select the KDE splash screen (which appears when you login) from the available choices.

The K Menu is better organized now. It is grouped into "Most Used Application", "All Applications" and "Actions". Even the applications are grouped in a much better way compared to earlier version.

The new KHotkey feature is really hot. You can create keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures for various tasks. This comes very handy. People used to such features in Microsoft Windows environment will love this feature. It is really cool to press the "Windows" key in your keyboard and see KMenu pop up in your screen.

The control center is well spruced up and better structured in KDE 3.2. Some of the tabs like background, window decoration, style etc. are redesigned.

Some of the welcome addtions to control center are

• Splash Screen - where you can select a KDE splash screen of your choice
• Wireless Network - where you can configure your wireless network. You can save upto four different configurations.
• Vim Component Configuration - where you can configure Vim to use inside KDE
• KHotkeys - where you can specify keyboard shortkeys and mouse gestures to lauch applications in KDE
• KDE Wallet - where you can configure KDE Wallet to store your internet and local passwords
• Sony Vaio Laptop - where you can configure the hardware for this laptop

KDE 3.2 has more countries under Country/Region. Also these countries are better organized. This is a very positive step in the internationalization efforts of KDE.

Another welcome feature in the control panel is the "Font installer". With this, installation of new fonts is a breeze. This is very useful for people who want to install their regional fonts and other extra fonts (many fonts are available in kde-look.org). The best aspect of the font installer is the instant preview available with it. I feel this is one of the greatest additions to KDE.

Many new applications are added and some of the existing applications have been upgraded. It is quite impossible to discuss all the applications available in KDE 3.2. I will just discuss some of the applications based on my preferences.

Konqueror: This is the central part of KDE e

Today I installed KDE 3.2, third major release of award winning KDE3 desktop platform, on my Fedora box. I have been using KDE 3.2 RC for the past few days and the final version from today. My first impression is "wow".

KDE 3.2 provides an integrated desktop along with various applications to carry out common desktop tasks such as web browsing, email, instant messaging, multimedia, graphics, etc. Some of the impressive features which you will notice include

• Increase in speed evident from faster application startup time
• Improvements in usability and performance
• Better appearance through interface refinement
• Browser performance boost evident through better webpage rendering

Upgrading to KDE 3.2 is a breeze. If you are a newbie and want to learn how to do it, you can refer to my HOWTO. I started my installation and within few minutes I am logged into my new KDE 3.2 desktop.

snip

The desktop is very polished and you can configure it in any way you want by right clicking on the desktop. You can setup your desktop background as a slide show so that the background picture changes at predetermined intervals. The style and window decorations are very refined increasing the overall appearance. I love plastik for style and window decoration. A better icon set is also available. Now that you can find a wide array of themes and icon sets in www.kde-look.org, you can customize your KDE desktop in any way you want. In fact, you can even select the KDE splash screen (which appears when you login) from the available choices.

The K Menu is better organized now. It is grouped into "Most Used Application", "All Applications" and "Actions". Even the applications are grouped in a much better way compared to earlier version.

The new KHotkey feature is really hot. You can create keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures for various tasks. This comes very handy. People used to such features in Microsoft Windows environment will love this feature. It is really cool to press the "Windows" key in your keyboard and see KMenu pop up in your screen. snip

The control center is well spruced up and better structured in KDE 3.2. Some of the tabs like background, window decoration, style etc. are redesigned. snip Some of the welcome addtions to control center are

• Splash Screen - where you can select a KDE splash screen of your choice
• Wireless Network - where you can configure your wireless network. You can save upto four different configurations.
• Vim Component Configuration - where you can configure Vim to use inside KDE
• KHotkeys - where you can specify keyboard shortkeys and mouse gestures to lauch applications in KDE
• KDE Wallet - where you can configure KDE Wallet to store your internet and local passwords
• Sony Vaio Laptop - where you can configure the hardware for this laptop

KDE 3.2 has more countries under Country/Region. Also these countries are better organized. This is a very positive step in the internationalization efforts of KDE.

Another welcome feature in the control panel is the "Font installer". With this, installation of new fonts is a breeze. This is very useful for people who want to install their regional fonts and other extra fonts (many fonts are available in kde-look.org). The best aspect of the font installer is the instant preview available with it. I feel this is one of the greatest additions to KDE.

Many new applications are added and some of the existing applications have been upgraded. It is quite impossible to discuss all the applications available in KDE 3.2. I will just discuss some of the applications based on my preferences.

Konqueror: This is the central part of KDE environment. it is a web browser, file man

Today I installed KDE 3.2, third major release of award winning KDE3 desktop platform, on my Fedora box. I have been using KDE 3.2 RC for the past few days and the final version from today. My first impression is "wow".

KDE 3.2 provides an integrated desktop along with various applications to carry out common desktop tasks such as web browsing, email, instant messaging, multimedia, graphics, etc. Some of the impressive features which you will notice include

• Increase in speed evident from faster application startup time
• Improvements in usability and performance
• Better appearance through interface refinement
• Browser performance boost evident through better webpage rendering

Upgrading to KDE 3.2 is a breeze. If you are a newbie and want to learn how to do it, you can refer to my HOWTO. I started my installation and within few minutes I am logged into my new KDE 3.2 desktop.

snip

The desktop is very polished and you can configure it in any way you want by right clicking on the desktop. You can setup your desktop background as a slide show so that the background picture changes at predetermined intervals. The style and window decorations are very refined increasing the overall appearance. I love plastik for style and window decoration. A better icon set is also available. Now that you can find a wide array of themes and icon sets in www.kde-look.org, you can customize your KDE desktop in any way you want. In fact, you can even select the KDE splash screen (which appears when you login) from the available choices.

The K Menu is better organized now. It is grouped into "Most Used Application", "All Applications" and "Actions". Even the applications are grouped in a much better way compared to earlier version.

The new KHotkey feature is really hot. You can create keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures for various tasks. This comes very handy. People used to such features in Microsoft Windows environment will love this feature. It is really cool to press the "Windows" key in your keyboard and see KMenu pop up in your screen. snip

The control center is well spruced up and better structured in KDE 3.2. Some of the tabs like background, window decoration, style etc. are redesigned. snip Some of the welcome addtions to control center are

• Splash Screen - where you can select a KDE splash screen of your choice
• Wireless Network - where you can configure your wireless network. You can save upto four different configurations.
• Vim Component Configuration - where you can configure Vim to use inside KDE
• KHotkeys - where you can specify keyboard shortkeys and mouse gestures to lauch applications in KDE
• KDE Wallet - where you can configure KDE Wallet to store your internet and local passwords
• Sony Vaio Laptop - where you can configure the hardware for this laptop

KDE 3.2 has more countries under Country/Region. Also these countries are better organized. This is a very positive step in the internationalization efforts of KDE.

Another welcome feature in the control panel is the "Font installer". With this, installation of new fonts is a breeze. This is very useful for people who want to install their regional fonts and other extra fonts (many fonts are available in kde-look.org). The best aspect of the font installer is the instant preview available with it. I feel this is one of the greatest additions to KDE.

Many new applications are added and some of the existing applications have been upgraded. It is quite impossible to discuss all the applications available in KDE 3.2. I will just discuss some of the applications based on my preferences.

Konqueror: This is the central part of KDE environment. it is a web browser, file man

Fedora News appears to have upgraded to KDE 3.2. How else could their webserver become so resource-starved that it is unable to serve pages anymore?

I am, of course, joking -- I'm sure that the new release of KDE is absolutely fantastic, and I look forward to reading the article when Fedora News has recovered from the good shellacking which Slashdot users appear to be giving it at the moment.

Here is the direct link for the download!

http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helixdnaclient/

Here is a quick tutorial on making an rpm of it.
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/helixplayer/

And since there is no Windows version of the HelixPlayer, here is the link to the RealOne Player:

http://www.realone.com/R/RC.012004realhome_1_1_2_1 _1_2.ecomm...R/forms.real.com/real/realone/realone .html?beta_bypass=true&bbits=true&type=dlrhap_bb&& pp=home&src=012004realhome_1_1_2_1_1_2

the good folks over at Fedoranews.org has put out a installation guide that some users may find useful.