Fedora Core 6 comes with Gaim 2.0 Beta 4. Above you can see it together with the new Fedora Core 6 DNA-style background.

As you can see, things have changed quite a bit in the appearance of Gaim. The largest change to the GUI involves the availability which is now set by a bar at the bottom of the GUI. The biggest complaint I have with this setup is that there isn’t an easy way to set one account as away while another is available.

Photo Sharing

Photo Sharing

If you want to know what the glue is that binds our family together, it’s my mother. She has worked tirelessly to ensure that we have built up the relationships we need in our family. Always working, it’s pretty rare to see her just slacking off. But then again, that’s what’s made her the amazing mother she is and the great wife to my father she is. When others were giving up, she was just getting started. She’s the strongest, hardest working person I know. The only person who works as hard as her is my father and that’s why they’ve pulled themselves out from being poor when they first got married to now nearly being business owners!

I realized the Monty Hall PHP program I had written didn’t really have any kind of description of what you should do on the page. So I went back through my blog and found the description and fixed that sucker up. So if you went there in the past and didn’t get what you were supposed to do, go ahead and give it another shot.

I also fixed my blogroll because a bug from Mauricio’s blog had been causing it to choke. That is now fixed as well and you can go ahead and check that page again.

This butterfly was extremely hard to capture on camera. It kept fluttering away. But I got these great shots plus one more on my flickr site.

All I had to add, apart from what I mentioned yesterday was:

Load “extmod” to the Module section of xorg.conf.

Although others have derided it, I think it is an AWESOME addition to Fedora. It really brings the desktop to the eye candy level of Mac’s OSX. A lot of the eye candy is also extremely functional! I wanted to save this post for a video showing the compiz stuff (it doesn’t really work to show screenshots), but I haven’t been having the best of luck with that. I’ll try again in the next couple of days along with my review.

I’m almost ready to do my first review of FC6. However, I’m still working on getting all the neat AIGLX effects working. After all, that was almost the whole point of upgrading. So far I’ve installed the Compiz package, which gave the the System -> Preferences -> Desktop Effects menu. That didn’t work, so I hit the IRC servers. I was told the latest livna nvidia driver doesn’t support it, but the version in the testing repo should support it. So I’m going to be trying that soon. I also had to add Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True” to my xorg.conf. I haven’t setup the dual head again yet, but that should be a snap in comparison.

it is FAST! OMG is it fast! They weren’t lying about the optimizations with the latest GCC! It loads into Gnome so much faster than it used to and all the programs launch much faster as well!

The new version of Fedora is installed. So far, only the X server didn’t work right. It didn’t feel like supporting my dual head setup, so I’ll have to investigate that over the next few days. Other than that, it appears to have installed just fine. By the way, it didn’t take until now to be finished. It finished around 11 last night, but I didn’t want to reboot because I didn’t want to deal with any debugging until today.