Updating via Livna nVidia did not completely fix the problem. As in the last time I upgrade I am now down to one monitor and I hate it! I feel so cramped! I’m still updating some stuff so hopefully this’ll be fixed soon.

While I’m at it….I don’t like the default Gnome icons for Fedora 7. I find them very ugly. Also the font used is very hurtful on my eyes. I wonder if that has to do with font patent/copyright issues.

But that’s my own fault. I thought about switching away from nVidia before updating, but I didn’t. So I’m updating - there’s 1 GB worth of updates. So when I get home today I need to install the nVidia drivers from Livna.

The upgrade went off without a hitch except for one thing: in grub, it did not make my FC7 kernel the default! And, obviously my FC6 kernel was gone. No biggie, just select F7 kernel in grub and you’re good.

Here’s a great mashup Remyyy created with vintage footage and a recent song. It matches up fairly nicely!

You don’t know me from Remyyy on Vimeo

It’s almost done installing. I’ve stayed up too long to go to sleep now. Although, I doubt I’ll stay up past one. I might have to finish it off tomorrow. Anyway…it looks like they’ve eliminated the time left to install. That’s probably a good thing as for the past 3+ years it’s always been horribly inaccurate. Instead they still you how many packages out of how many total packages have been installed. I’m down to the last 100 packages. Who knows how much longer is left? I’ll give it 15 more minutes.

I usually wait a while to install new Fedora releases, but a few things made me decide to give a whirl today. First of all, my torrent finished at a reasonable time. Second, Freshrpms is actually already ready for the upgrade. Finally, I read online that it’s a pretty stable release that doesn’t rock the boat too much. So here goes….

A while back (6 mo to a year ago), I tried Rhythmbox and found it too buggy for me. I absolutely hated it. I loved Amarok so I used that within KDE, but it took forever to load within Gnome. So what was I to do? Ever since Fedora started packaging Mono, I’ve been using Banshee. But I find it extremely slow, less featured than Rhythmbox, and without Podcast support. I hate iTunes, so my podcast support has been coming from Songbird. However, they have a really annoying bug that makes using it for podcasting horrible. (I’ve filed a bug report, but no fixes yet) Here’s an example of what the podcasting interface looks like: (click the image to see it full size)

I thought I’d have to wait for Fedora 7 to experience Pidgin (what gaim got renamed to due to their legal battles with AOL - as I previously blogged), but they provided it for Fedora Core 6.

The interface has changed a little. Here are some screenshots showing my first impressions on the differences:

The main difference I noticed is that everyone is represented by a green dot if they are available instead of an icon representing their chat service. In other words, AOL contacts are no longer displayed as the AOL running man and MSN is no longer the chubby green guy.

And it’s called Moonshine. I like the name better than Zod, Fedora Core 6’s name.

Here’s the announcement from the Red Hat Mailing List:

\* From: The Fedora Project \* To: fedora-announce-list redhat com \* Subject: Announcing Fedora 7 (Moonshine) \* Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 03:28:41 -0700

Howdy, cousins! Welcome to our little Fedora hollow, where we’ve brewed up some mighty, mighty Fedora 7 Moonshine for your enjoyment. Here, I’ll help you pour that … and some for me … *cough, cough* Smoooooth … sure does taste good. It’s been sitting here in the jug for almost a whole month now! Go ahead and help yourself to some more:

…is a lot of fun. I love pulverizing (and being pulverized) in the mini games.

Can be found here. However, there is profanity involved, so don’t go there if that offends you. Otherwise hilarious. That’s all I have to say today, spent my time out of work watching disc 4 of “The Office” and pre-ordering Mario Party 8.