Acedip

So finally the wait is over now, and we have a brand new release of our lovely fedora. Though it took me a few days to download but it was done today morning and I had planned to upgrade my machines in the evening. One of my machines was already running fedora 11 and the other one could never actually see the face of fedora due to this bug (ATI device drivers) but has seen faces of all other linux flavors. But I had high hopes from constantine since there has been considerable work done in the field of ATI video drives.

Machine one (laptop):- Well this was easy and had more chances of success as it already was running fedora 11 and had no issues at all. So I put in the fedora 12 DVD and upgraded fedora 11 to fedora 12, it was running the default i.e. gnome, but my main working installation runs kde so after gnome’s upgrade I upgraded the kde one too. Though the upgrade process is quite long and time consuming but the upgrade was worth the wait.

The login screen is so beautiful.

And so is the plasma desktop, this is why I love kde, it gives you immense functionality to work.

And I have found this application called “digiKam” which I have totally fallen in love with, those I could not install the plugin which lets you export pictures to flickr and facebook as one of the dependencies of that plugin does not even exist on the site , the libkexif-0.2.5.tar.bz2 does not even exist on the download link. fail!!

Machine two (desktop):- Now this is a weird one, and I feel cheated because this machine which has an ATI board and everything else on the chipset by ATI was sold in the market as an intel product as a 3rd party product, but I was stupid enough to understand any of that to not to buy it, so anyways, now I’m stuck with it, and thanks to closed ATI drivers I could never install fedora on it, I’ve been trying fc6 but never, well finally filed a bug and after some work by some people on it, its pending, mainly because of my non-interest, but would now like ot revoke it back and hopefully fix it by f13, though, there have been some improvements and will update the bug report ASAP. So finally I couldn’t install f12 on this machine.

Well even after not a normal boot, I could install fedora on my desktop which is a new milestone in the bug, because I could never even run the install media properly, so this is a very joyful image. My desktop with a kernel option and my laptop being upgraded to f12.yuppy!!

Well, apart from this, there is a f12 install fest lined up in my college on 25th Nov and also another one on 28th in another college in jaipur, seems like lug-jaipur is up for an active week Will report on it soon.