Fedora10

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Contents 1 Documentation 1.1 Manuals 1.2 Release Notes 1.3 Schedule 1.4 News 2 3rd Party Repositories 2.1 livna & rpmfusion 3 nvidia drivers 4 multimedia 4.1 Adobe Flash 4.2 swfdec 4.3 vlc 4.4 mplayer 4.5 dvd playback 5 filesystems 5.1 Creating encrypted filesystems 5.2 ext4 6 sectool 7 Other Resources

Documentation

Manuals

Release Notes

• http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F10Common
• http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/
• http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-user-guide/f10/en-US/

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Beta/ReleaseNotes
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Alpha/ReleaseNotes
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN

Schedule

25 Nov 08 - Fedora 10 final release

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule

News

• http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3786911/Fedora+10:+the+GNU/Linux+Desktop+Steps+Forward.htm
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081125-fedora-10-released-brimming-with-new-features.html

3rd Party Repositories

optimize downloading

yum install yum-fastestmirror 

livna & rpmfusion

The livna repository is being merged into the rpmfusion repository

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/RPMFusion
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue#Livna_Migration_to_RPM_Fusion
• http://www.linux-archive.org/fedora-development/176202-first-steps-transition-livna-rpm-fusion-begins-now-livna-devel-users.html
• http://rpmfusion.org/

• http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/repoview/index.html
• http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/repoview/index.html

• http://rpmfusion.org/keys

Install for Fedora 10 final:

rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

One package, libdvdcss, still remains in the livna repository

nvidia drivers

proprietary nvidia drivers are available in the rpmfusion-nonfree repository

yum install akmod-nvidia

akmod-nvidia is recommended over kmod-nvidia (if there is sufficient disc space) since it will compile kmod-nvidia at boot time for new kernels even when a kmod-nvidia package hasn't been built in the repository.

multimedia

Much of the software in this section involves the installation of non-free code.

Adobe Flash

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

nspluginwrapper.i386
nspluginwrapper.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386
libcurl.i386
flash-plugin

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash
• http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/
• http://macromedia.mplug.org/

64-bit flash player

• http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/11/now_supporting_16_exabytes.html

swfdec

The free software alternative to Adobe Flash is swfdec

swfdec
swfdec-mozilla

gstreamer-plugins-ugly
gstreamer-ffmpeg

vlc

vlc

mplayer

mplayer 
mplayer-gui 
gecko-mediaplayer 
mencoder

codecs

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
untar to /usr/local/lib/codecs

cd /usr/lib
ln -s ../local/lib/codecs

dvd playback

The libdvdcss package was not accepted into the rpmfusion repository, but Fedora 10 can still use the package from the Fedora 9 repository in livna

rpm --import http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY
rpm -ivh http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/9/x86_64/libdvdcss-1.2.9-5.lvn9.x86_64.rpm \
http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/9/i386/libdvdcss-1.2.9-5.lvn9.i386.rpm

filesystems

Creating encrypted filesystems

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security_Guide/9/LUKSDiskEncryption

I was not able to make a usable encrypted /home filesystem from the anaconda installer in Fedora 10 beta, but was able to manually create it after installation.

uuid
/lib/udev/vol_id
cryptsetup
/etc/crypttab

Encrypting /dev/sda11 to be mounted as /home

cryptsetup --verbose --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sda11
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda11 home
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/home
mount /dev/mapper/home /home

ext4

ext4 is still not the default filesystem in Fedora 10, but it looks promising. An incomplete version was introduced in Fedora 9.

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ext4
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraExt4
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats#EXT4
• http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
• http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/Kernel-Log-Ext4-completes-development-phase-as-interim-step-to-btrfs--/111742

• http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ext4_benchmarks&num=1

A single speed test of file transfers to an ext3 vs ext4 filesystem suggests ext4 is 25% faster.

Rsync of a dvd image over nfs mount to ext3: 15.4 Mb/sec Rsync of same dvd images over nfs mount to encrypted ext4: 19.4 Mb/sec

sectool

A security audit system and intrusion detection tool ( also added to Fedora 9 )

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SecurityAudit
• https://fedorahosted.org/sectool

compare with: bastille unix: http://www.bastille-unix.org/ CIS benchmark: http://www.cisecurity.org/

Other Resources

• http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html
• http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-services-f10.html