Copyright © 2006
The documents, files and informations provided in this site is solely for educational purposes only. The author is not responsible for any damages what so ever resulted for from direct or indirect use of any material found in this site.
This site is created by Bluefish and tested under Firefox, The display may not be right for internet explorer.
This documents is provided for free, and if you want to redistribute this document
please contact the author
(duckzlandd@yahoo.com)
This section is for various software that are essential for Laptop under Fedora Core 4. Tested using Toshiba Portege R100, Toshiba Portege M200 and Acer Travelmate 240.
Fedora Core 4 default multimedia player is Totem, but seems due to some copyright/license
issue, Totem becomes not very smart in handling multimedia format such as avi and mp3.
Therefore you will need to update your totem codec library.
Totem player needs several new dependencies rpm to make it able to play .avi and mp3 files format. Thus after acquiring information's from http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/ , I go to http://stentz.freshrpms.net/ to install these rpms :
gstreamer-ffmpeg
gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio
gstreamer-plugins-extra-video
gstreamer-plugins-extra-dvd
gsm ->dependencies
libmpcdec ->dependencies
swfdec ->dependencies
If your totem have difficulties loading, you might want to change around the configuration
using the multimedia gui under gnome.
You can also install XMMS (clone of winamp) to handle your mp3 files, but if you have updated your totem, then your totem can handle the mp3 which makes your need for xmms is just for preferences.
Other linux video player that you can choose to install are :
1. VideoLan - a very stable video player, you can get them via yum
2. Mplayer -> a good video player, you can get them via yum
3. Xine -> a good video player, you can get them via yum
basically all three player is good player with some weakness and advantanges over the others. its generally
a good idea to have all of them installed.
If you like one by one bittorrent downloader, you can try the bittorrent downloader with its gui from fedora server. But if you wish to have multiple download and other extra feature, please use azureus bittorrent downloader. To install azureus, you will need to install Java Runtime (JRE), please consult http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc4.html for more information.
This is a very good irc client that you can use. There is a gxchat (gnome'd xchat)
that you can try. go to http://xchat-gnome.navi.cx/ for more information.
You can download the rpm for xchat at http://foolish.digitalinc.info/pakker/i386/
The best windows manager around. go to http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe/ to download the rpm, since its still in beta version, if you try to build them from source, its most likely to failed. best to download the rpm. for guides regarding how to tweak and configure this please go to http://www.enlightenment.org or http://www.get-e.org
Prozilla is a text only or GUI'd download accelerator, if you use the GUI, make sure you download the static fltk linked one, otherwise the old fltk requirement will makes your rpm dependencies failed.
Gftp is a ftp program for gnome, you can download them at gftp.seul.org
Gwget is a front end gui for wget, is a very usefull download manager for gnome. You can download them at http://gwget.sourceforge.net
Quick Downloader is a program similar to Prozilla with GUI but is written in java, You can download them at http://qdown.sourceforge.net/
Download for X is a very good and nice GUI download manager but sadly without acceleration like prozzila, You can download them at http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/
You can try bluefish (GUI, no WYSIWYG), amaya (GUI, WYSIWYG), peacock (GUI, WYSIWYG) or NV (GUI, WYSIWYG).
This site is created by Bluefish.
Fedora Core 4 kernel doen't come with ntfs module for reading / writting.
So you can installed the ntfs modules for read and write ntfs partition. From :
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
Remember to match the kernel version. get your kernel version by typing uname -r.
Because I need to access my windows XP comp to access some file thus I need to get smbclient working for accessing windows xp share folder.
Use command smbclient //yourwindowsipnumber/shared-folder and press enter on password or input password if needed.
Got gnome file browser to access windows share by go to
Places -> Computer ->File->Connect to server->service type : Windows Share->server: your windows ip number / computer name -> folder -> your shared folder.
And it will mount the shared documents in the desktop.
Note : Computer name eg. //superduckz/shared and superman ip eg. 192.168.2.122, how to check the names?, go to your windows and open windows explorer, click on your shared folder and look at the address bar in the explorer, it should say //blah/blah, that is your name and folder name.
I installed the samba rpm to achieve this. And also edited the /etc/smb.conf file which is very much straight forward except when i failed to enable the WINS support, FC4 fails to use names but succeeded when i use ip instead of names.
I didn’t bother to make samba shares in my laptop that can be accessed from winxp box.
This is a very usefull small program to edit your gnome menu. Sometimes when you installed program directly from source and if its not a gnome or Fedora Core compliant, you will have to access the program from shell. But using this SMEG you can edit the menu for launching the new installed programs.
You can download the rpm at http://foolish.digitalinc.info/pakker/i386/
This is a very usefull program, a shell program that can view shell splitted in one windows. you can get this program via yum if you installed the dries and dag repositories. Otherwise you can get the source at http://multignometerm.sourceforge.net
This is fax program to send fax via the smartlink modem. Its a similar program HylaFAX or mgetty+sendfax. Without the efax-gtk, efax is just a command line fax program which is hard to use without gui, so install the gui efax-gtk to make faxing easier. Get the program source for efax and efax-gtk.
efax and efax-gtk will compile smoothly under Fedora Core 4, also you can build the rpm for efax-gtk
If you wish to schedule tasks for the crontab in GUI, then you should download the gnome task scheduler source file, compile it and install them. You may want to add the gat in the gnome menu using smeg
The Gnome telnet (gtelnet) can be installed via yum, it's a front end for telnet, ssh and rlogin.
The vncviwer is a remote desktop program, you can get them via yum and get the GUI also called tsclient.
This is a usefull program to view program installed in your system. The source will compile cleanly. You can get the source here.
Bluephone is a small gnome applet for connecting with mobile phone via bluetooh, but the program still in alpha stage. It will compile correctly but some feature didn't work. But for easy connection, the program offers the easiest setting to connect to the mobile phone, unlike wammu/gammu or gnokii/xgnokii. You can download the program here.
This is a usefull program for viewing installed system font, you can download it via yum.
A program for connecting to your digital camera, check here for more information and digital camera compatibility. You can choose to download the source file and compile it : you will need libgphoto2, libexif, aalib, exif, libexif-gtk and gphoto2. Yum probably will install all of the requirement for you. Gphoto2 is a command shell program, if you wish for GUI front end then you should install gtkam.
This is another program for editing gnome menu. Similar to SMEG, you can download this using yum.
If you want to make your desktop nicer and have similar docklets as kde / mac os, This is available via yum.
This is another program for editing gnome menu. Similar to SMEG, you can download this using yum.
If you want to have nice GUI for partitioning your hard disk partition.
Very nice gui program for connecting to wireless access point, this is a must for laptop.
If you need to have NTFS stable read and write capability, This is not the same as ntfs kernel module which run in native linux, this is somehow a wrapper for microsoft ntfs driver. download this at
Please take your time to fill out the guestbook :
This site has been accessed for :
.
Get your own
Free Websitenow!
Download
Bash Script
RPM