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Contents 1 Documentation 1.1 Manuals 1.2 Release Notes 1.2.1 Schedule 1.2.2 News 2 3rd Party Repositories 2.1 livna & rpmfusion 2.2 nvidia drivers 2.3 known bugs and fixes 3 multimedia 3.1 Flash Support 3.1.1 Adobe 3.1.2 swfdec 3.2 vlc 3.3 mplayer 3.4 dvd playback 4 filesystems 4.1 Creating encrypted filesystems 4.2 btrfs 4.3 nfs 4.4 Security 4.4.1 sectool 4.4.2 Stack Protection 4.5 Neverwinter Nights 5 Other References

Documentation

Manuals

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Release Notes

• http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f16/en_US/

Schedule

25 Nov 08 - Fedora 10 final release

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/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

• http://rpm.livna.org/

yum install libdvdcss

nvidia drivers

• http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia

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.

• http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/fedora-16-nvidia-drivers-install-guide-disable-nouveau-driver/

known bugs and fixes

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F10Common
• http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/pulseaudio-fixes-and-workarounds

multimedia

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

Flash Support

Adobe

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

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 16 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

btrfs

btrfs is still not the default filesystem in Fedora 16

nfs

• http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_16&p=nfs

Security

sectool

A security audit system and intrusion detection tool

• 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/

Stack Protection

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit#Linux

Neverwinter Nights

Since this is a 32-bit linux binary, if running on a 64-bit system, one must make sure that the needed 32-bit libraries are installed.

ldd ./nwmain 

Will show you which libaries the binary is searching for.

Typically

glibc.i686
mesa-libGL.i386
mesa-libGLU.i386
SDL.i386
alsa-lib.
nvidia libs.i686
one more 

Other References

• http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f16.html