Please test drive it and report any feedback you have, we welcome both positive and negative feedback as long as it is constructive.

Enjoy.

http://fusionlinux.org/downloads/

Even when you copy extension to your /home/username/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions folder extensions are disabled by default.

To enable them you need to use gsettings command in terminal.

For example download, extract and copy noa11y@fpmurphy.com extension to your extensions folder.

Then enable extension with gsettings command:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions "['noa11y@fpmurphy.com']"

If you are aware of GUI for enabling/disabling GNOME Shell extensions please share that info.

For last few releases Fedora branches off development Rawhide branch from current in-development release few weeks before release. For few week you could build your own Fedora Remix using F16 repos even if F16 is not yet released.

RPM Fusion repo doesn’t follow this development path so there is no accompanying F16 RPM Fusion repo, there are only F15 and rawhide. RPM Fusion repo usually is available few weeks after Fedora release.

For us who make Fedora Remixes and use RPM Fusion this makes life a bit harder, because we also need time to test development releases before releasing them.

I found one clever way to produce Fedora Remix iso files that will work both now and after RPM Fusion makes F16 branch available.

This needs to be done in two places, first you need to edit sources in kickstart files that are used to produce your Remix. This is the easy part. Just add these sources:

repo --name=rpmfusion-free --baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/development/$basearch/os/

repo --name=rpmfusion-nonfree --baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/development/$basearch/os/

More tricky part is how to start using RPM Fusion F16 repos and stop using Development one when it becomes available. Trick is to edit RPM Fusion .repo files and add Development source AFTER original source line. That way original source will fail and yum will try next source in order.

This is how rpmfusion-free.repo file should look like:

[rpmfusion-free]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Free
#baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-rawhide&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-$releasever-$basearch

If you have any suggestions or comments please share them regarding this hack.

Why has it taken so long to release it?

First I lost a loooot of time trying to implement Blue Pill project into Fusion Linux. That would integrate Gnome 2 instead of Gnome 3. That didn’t work because Blue Pill project still had some Gnome 3 dependencies that they didn’t resolve.

In July I also joined one big international wifi project and that also consumes lots of my time. During August I was on a holiday and when I returned I was ready to ship Fusion 15 but then disaster struck – main distribution servers of Croatian Linux Users Group died

I hope to pick up the pace and keep on schedule with new Fedora releases.

I’ll keep working on this project for next few releases, but I don’t want to keep doing it alone. If more people join Fusion Linux project then it will grow.

This is a really nice usability feature for users that are new to Linux desktop and have issue with open source drivers, like I heard a lot of nVidia users have with current nouveau drivers. I’m lucky and always get laptops with Intel video chips

There is an easy way to test this out on Fedora and Fusion Linux just by following this guide.

/About Fusion Linux/

Fusion Linux is a Fedora Remix that uses a combination of free and open-source, non-free and non-open-source firmware and software, to bring the user the most advanced experience on the Linux platform.

Fusion Linux includes an outstanding theme, multimedia functionality out of the box and added desktop tweaks for better usability.

And finally, Fusion Linux is 100% compatible with Fedora.

/About this release/

Guiding principles behind this release were “Beyond Upstream” and “Multimedia Out of the Box”.

Features and highlights are:
* LibreOffice instead OpenOffice
* New download managers – Tucan and Uget
* New remote desktop app – Remmina
* bug fixes
* a brand new custom made theme
* Fusion Linux post install welcome wizard script
* Skype removed so Fusion Linux can be freely redistributed
* multimedia support out of the box (Flash, MP3 & DivX playback)
* better hardware compatibility for broadcom wireless cards
* better games selection

We put a lot of work in the brand new custom made theme. It is based on Faenza icons and Alliance GTK theme with the little Fusion touch.

Desktop highlihgts:
* mintMenu
* DockbarX
* GNOME Do
* Compiz Fusion

mintMenu and DockbarX are two GNOME panel addons that make this Linux distro unique. These are the most obvious features that you will encounter first time you login.

Software highlights:
* LibreOffice 3.3
* Chromium + Firefox 4.0
* Thunderbird 3.0
* K3b – best CD/DVD and Blu-ray burning app
* GIMP 2.7 beta, Scribus 1.4 svn, Inkscape and Blender
* Dropbox – online backup and file sync
* TeamViewer – multiplatform remote desktop app
* F-Spot – image organizer and personal photo management
* Banshee – media player
* HandBrake – DVD ripping application, convert DVD to a video file
* Arista video transcoder – right click on any video file to convert
* PlayOnLinux – easily install numerous Windows games and apps
* Miro – free and open internet TV application
* Ailurus GNOME tweaking app
* GParted – partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions
* FedoraPlus – scripts for customizing
* Gwibber – GNOME Twitter and Identica app
* Redshift – takes care of your eyes if you work late
* Development package and tools

Chromium is the default browser. We think Firefox 4.0 is great and is included, but but we still prefer Chromium.

Desktop tweaks:
* Nautilus browser mode by default
* Clicking via touchpad by default

/Download/

http://fusionlinux.org/downloads/

/Get involved/

Feel free to join this project, we eagerly like to hear your ideas about how Fusion Linux should look and work.

Get in touch with us on our forum:

* http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com/fusionlinuxforums/index.php

We hope you enjoy the release as did making it.

The Linux Fusion Team

Twitter is badly broken on Fedora 14 either because most twitter clients (like pino, qwit and mitter) don’t work with oauth bazed twitter authorization or crash and cause memory leaks (like gwibber). Chokoq usually works fine but it just has too KDE centric look and feel for my taste. I have heard from lots of Fedora users in our local LUG and on the forums that they are in same boat as I and stopped using Twitter on their Fedora desktop because of that.

Don’t fret, Turpial comes to the rescue. Turpial is twitter client like Tweetdeck for Linux. Turpial is written in Python and aims to be an application with low consumption of resources and integrates into user’s desktop without sacrificing any functionality.

Turpial is awailable via fedora-updates-testing repo so to install it follow these steps:
1. open terminal window
2. become root: su -
3. install turpial: yum install turpial --enablerepo=updates-testing

It is needles to say that Fusion Linux in next release will have Turpial enabled by default.

Check out some other cool articles on our Fusion Linux Blog and don’t miss Fusion Linux Forums.

If you haven’t heard yet Fusion Linux is most popular Fedora Remix.