Category Archives: Fedora

Fusion Linux 14.1 is out

Posted on July 1, 2011 by

  Fusion Linux 14.1 “Thorium” is officially out.   This release has been in the making for few months, and it is mostly an update to out initial release. Biggest new feature is LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice and two biggest … Continue reading →

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Fusion Linux – most popular Fedora Remix

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

It looks like we are doing something right because we are most popular Fedora Remix. Just click on Smolt Stats and then on OS tab to see for yourself. Of course we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for great … Continue reading →

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Install Chromium on Fedora

Posted on May 10, 2011 by

Chromium browser isn’t available in Fedora repos because of reasons that Tom Callaway raised over two years ago. Most issues are still open. But this is not only a Google #fail, it is also Fedora #fail because every other distro … Continue reading →

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F-Spot 0.8.0 in Fedora 14 and in Fusion 14

Posted on November 2, 2010 by

  F-Spot photo manager in Fedora 14 repos has been updated to latest 0.8.0 version. This is the first stable release since 0.6.2 arrived in mid-May of this year. According to the developers, the latest version of their image organiser … Continue reading →

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Skype vs Empathy

Posted on October 29, 2010 by

  After testing Empathy I can say that it works amazingly nice, so why are we still including Skype in Fusion Linux?   One simple reason – there is no OSX and Windows version of Empathy. Skype is available on … Continue reading →

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Best Linux photo manager?

Posted on October 29, 2010 by

  To answer this question I have tested F-Spot, Shotwell, Picasa, Digikam and KPhotoalbum to see which is the easiest to use, does fastest imports, has best features and is stable.   Here are some features that are a mush … Continue reading →

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How do you make your Fedora desktop shine?

Posted on October 23, 2010 by

  What is first tweak that you do to make Fedora nicer looking after a fresh install?   Fedora is best looking Linux distro out of the box but even that can’t please everybody, each of us has his own … Continue reading →

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New Fusion Linux logo (killing the Hotdog)

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

The feature I get asked the most is “when will you replace that horrid hotdog logo”, or something like that. Well in doing that I need your help. If you have any basic GIMP and RPM packaging skills you can … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4 as default browser?

Posted on October 12, 2010 by

  I have used Firefox 4 beta on Fedora 13 for last couple of weeks and it is faster than Firefox 3.6 and really stable.   That is why I’m thinking about removing Firefox 3.6 and making Firefox 4 default … Continue reading →

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Which package you would like every new Fedora user to see?

Posted on October 11, 2010 by

  Which piece of software you believe that every new Fedora user should be aware of that isn’t installed by default on Fedora Live CD?   Why do you think that this package should be installed by default?   Make … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, Fusion Linux | 14 Comments