Having fun with Fedora
Minitube is an interesting application featuring the phonon multimedia engine of qt4. It can browse and play youtube videos without flash player installed using phonon (normally using phonon-gstreamer backend).
After enabling wellassa repo minitube can be installed for Fedora 11 x86_64 by giving this command:
sudo yum install minitube
Arora was started as a demo application to test the QtWebkit functionality in 2008. Now it has evolved to an almost feature complete web browser. I have been using this browser in Fedora for some time along with both Firefox and Opera. I have not yet installed Google Chrome because for my 64bit Fedora 11 box it’s difficult to build a native x86_64 version of Chrome. So my Webkit experience has primarily been on Arora web browser and I’m really impressed with its performance.
Recently I ran a Google V8 benchmark on firefox, opera and Arora running on my Fedora 11 X86_64 box and here are the overall scores.
Firefox 3.51 score:209
Opera 10.00 Beta 2 Build 4520 (gcc4, shared qt4) score: 169
Arora 0.8.0 (shared qt4) score: 548
Even though these results alone cannot be used to judge the speed of each browser, Arora is indeed fast. In the long run what I felt was both Arora and Opera is significantly faster than Firefox.
If you want to install Arora for Fedora 11 I’ve packaged a x86_64 rpm. As usual first install Wellassa Linux repo if you have not already done so and issue:
“sudo yum install arora”
picture : Arora running V8 benchmark
Now you can install Golly, which is an excellent Conway’s Game of Life and other Cellular Automation simulator, in fedora 10 by following these steps.
First install wellassa linux fedora repository.
sudo rpm -Uhv http://download.wellassa.org/fedora/10/i386/wellassa-linux-release-stable.noarch.rpm
Then install golly by giving:
sudo yum install golly
To install Lucidlife another game of life simulator based on the simulation algorithms developed by Alan Hensel give following command.
sudo yum install lucidlife
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Now you can install the QT only version of Marble virtual globe software of the KDE education project.
All you have to do is give sudo yum install marble-qt command. (First you have to install wellassa linux fedora repository)
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Here I’ve made some rpm packages for some of the free software not available officially in fedora. Most RPMs are for Fedora 10 i386 and some are for Fedora 11 x86_64.
http://download.wellassa.org/fedora/10/i386/repoview/index.html
http://download.wellassa.org/fedora/11/x86_64/repoview/index.html
Included:
Source rpms are here
http://download.wellassa.org/fedora/10/SRPMS/repoview/
To install the yum repo use
For Fedora 10
sudo rpm -Uhv http://download.wellassa.org/fedora/10/i386/wellassa-linux-release-stable.noarch.rpm
or for Fedora 11
sudo rpm -Uhv http://download.wellassa.org/fedora/11/noarch/wellassa-linux-release-stable.noarch.rpm
