Fedora 10 Preview
Yesterday I installed the preview release of Fedora 10. I am disapointed; the most needed things, for me anyway, would be to have multimedia support of some kind. My mp3s are a no go, mplayerplug-in doesn’t exist, same with mozilla-plugin-vlc. No quicktime either? What is this?
All of this did work with snapshot 3 earlier, so my guess is that the guys at Rpmfusion are rebuilding their stuff or something. Other than that it feels pretty solid, stable and it is fast. Windows open instantly, there is no lag, haven’t tested 3d yet, other than glxinfo | grep direct gives me a positive answer, but enabling the desktop effects shows nothing but grayed out windows. This is with and Nvidia 7600GT graphics card. I am going back to Ubuntu until this release matures a little bit more, and I will check back later.
Fedora 10 Autologin
Took a small detour to Fedora land, I found no option how to enable autologin in gnome, so here’s how to do it.
Please remember to back up your files first! :
cp /etc/gdm/gdm.schemas /etc/gdm/gdm.schemas.backup
nano /etc/gdm/gdm.schemas
and locate
`<schema>
<key>daemon/AutomaticLoginEnable</key>
<signature>b</signature>
<default>false</default> Change this to true.
</schema>`
And finally edit this:
`<schema>
<key>daemon/AutomaticLogin</key>
<signature>s</signature>
<default></default> Put the username here.
</schema>`
If you have look a bit further down, you’ll find options how to enable timed login too, if you use that instead you must leave auto login disabled.
Thanks to this post on linuxquestions that led me to the answer.
Update: edited post with better example.
Update 2!
Thanks to JGV in the comments below for pointing this out!
The even simpler solution:
`* edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf
* add section [daemon] to this file
* inside this section, add lines:
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=username`
Linux Mint ( and others )
Been using Linux Mint now for a few weeks, and everything is working great! Maybe even too great, fuck, I’m bored. That is bad, because when I get bored with a distro, it means it is usually time for a new one to try out… Lemmesee, Mandriva 2009 just got released, and Fedora 10 betas are out ( the nines didn’t work too well imo ), opensuse 11 is unstable as hell too. So that leaves me with Mint, wich is boring, but stable, Gentoo which I like but takes forever to set up with a slow PC.
graah…. must not install other OS….. must order more RAM for Virtual Machines instead 