Fedora Community Remix 12

[Valent]

We would like to announce Fedora Community Remix 12.1 (2010-01-14)

* 100% Fedora compatible (based on Fedora 12)
* multimedia support out of the box (mp3 playback)
* KDE + GNOME desktops
* Open Office 3.1
* Evolution with native Exchange support (mapi)
* Compiz Fusion compositing window manager
* better hardware compatibility for broadcom wireless cards
* better printer hardware compatibility
* GNOME Do - intelligent application launcher (http://tinyurl.com/yntg9l)
* Much better games selection
* Educational and astronomy software installed
* Chromium Internet browser + Firefox
* Inkscape, Scribus and GIMP 2.6
* wireless security tools (aircrack-ng and kismet)
* GPS and location apps (TangoGPS and tools)
* many other enhancements

If you have any suggestion on how to make this Remix better and to get involved feel free to join us and make this Fedora Remix even better.

Download links:
bittorrent: http://tinyurl.com/y957fop
direct download: http://iso.linux.hr/fedora-community-remix/ and http://depositfiles.com/files/d9imqnjul

Website: http://fcoremix.wordpress.com/

[Dangermouse]

Downloading now to try, is there a main site/page anywhere?

[Valent]

Currently only blog - http://fcoremix.wordpress.com/ , similar to Omega Linux. We are open to all any any suggestion in improving web presence.

[robert-e]

I might just give it a whirl. I am only half joking here, but it would be nice to see a spin like this one, only without PulseAudio and all its hooks, and with a working Alsa, or perhaps OSSv4
Regards,
Bob

[DustinCasler]

Interesting. Might have to try this out.

[Magickman]

Downloaded and installed it just a few hours ago on a spare drive. Cannot be updated, it can't find the repo or something, even the software updater had a dependency problem on every package. Not yet ready for prime time, me thinks.

[DustinCasler]

good info Magickman. Is it only install media? Or could I download it and check it out in a live session?

[clowenstein]

While I appreciate your support for Croatia it would be more useful for others if the default keyboard was US. And maybe the default timezone could be UTC not Zagreb.

Perhaps the timeout on the initial choice of keyboard should be lengthened, so it would be easier to make a choice before the computer tumbles you into the default login.

I have used the Fedora liveusb-creator program to move this system to a USB memory stick. After several reboots, I finally managed to change the default keyboard and timezone. This is now in persistent storage so I don't have to do it again.

[Valent]

Originally Posted by Magickman

Downloaded and installed it just a few hours ago on a spare drive. Cannot be updated, it can't find the repo or something, even the software updater had a dependency problem on every package. Not yet ready for prime time, me thinks.

After installing it on few machines all updated fine without any issues. What are the issues you had? What kind of dependency issues? Thank you for your report.

---------- Post added at 02:29 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 02:28 PM CST ----------

Originally Posted by DustinCasler

good info Magickman. Is it only install media? Or could I download it and check it out in a live session?

This is a Live CD version.

---------- Post added at 02:31 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 02:29 PM CST ----------

Originally Posted by clowenstein

While I appreciate your support for Croatia it would be more useful for others if the default keyboard was US. And maybe the default timezone could be UTC not Zagreb.

Good point, I was left on Croatian by mistake, I'll fix it for next release in few weeks.

Originally Posted by clowenstein

Perhaps the timeout on the initial choice of keyboard should be lengthened, so it would be easier to make a choice before the computer tumbles you into the default login.

I'll do that also.

Thank you for your feedback. Do you have update and dependency issues as others reported?

[jlebrech]

I've managed to install the live cd onto a compaq mini 311, works perfectly with wifi.

I had similar issues with the repo update.

What I had to do is edit /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo and chromium.repo and set enabled to 0 in the those files.

Then a "yum check-update& yum update" did the trick.

Could you make a similar distro but with just a base fedora and the broadcom wifi drivers?

[smurffit]

There are two things i don't like in Fedora, maybe it's a feedback for you to do it better.

1.) I hate the Fedora OpenOffice version - important things are cut out cause of licenses issues. I've to reinstall it always from the website (maybe you could add a version with templates, spellchecks, cliparts etc. too)

2.) I'm a Swiftweasel fan. It's in my opinion fast and snappier than FF. Maybe it's an idea too.

[jlebrech]

I hate having to remove the packages I don't want more than added the ones I want.

But i definitely must have the packages I NEED which obviously are the bits that make the hardware work.

The broadcom drivers are great aswell as nvidia.

and OO3,Firefox,Python, Ruby, Java, Flash, Codec. The essentials.

an essentials only remix of this would be awesome.

[Valent]

Please cast your vote: http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/2559691/?view=results

[Valent]

Whoow, nice surprise, Fedora Community Remix is ranked 3rd by number of downloads in last three weeks by stats from http://linuxtracker.org

Thank you all

[poetofzwan]

Love using Fedora Community Remix 12 on both my netbook and desktop machine, however, there is an issue with the Chromium Repo:

The url used is http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F/ when I think it should be http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F12/

Hope that helps someone.