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While there may be alternatives, you do not need on. I have pdf xchange viewer running on linux natively using wine.



Install wine using fedora package manager (System->Administration->add remove software).

Search wine and install (A Windows 16/32/64 bit emulator) if it is not already installed.

Then download the installer for PDF Xchange and run the installer like normal. Because i don't normally run this software, I can't tell you how good it works. Its seems to be stable to me though. Hopefully, @tinypliny #52765 can give you more info.

It should make a shortcut on the desktop. You can drag that to the panel at the top of the screen if you prefer.

I have mac OS X snow leopard, windows 7, windows XP running as virtual machines on Fedora 13. I cannot wait to get the new computer with quad core and eight gigs of ram. This is going to change my life.

I used these instructions mixed with these ones

I am going to start out and admit I am a total jerk for complaining now and at the same time not not realizing that this was going on before and participating by either designing or voting.

I especially hate that I did not vote because the wining design is such crap and it only won with 9 votes. Not like ahead by 9 votes but won with 9 votes. Seriously, like almost no one voted. The fact that it was made with blender, a open source 3d program should be a plus for an open OS, but I think the fact that it is so freakin basic, intro to 3D 101, that it will not only look bad for fedora, but bad for blender as well.

With only 9 votes, anyone and their 10 friends could have won.

Here is the link to the fedora wiki page about it with some of the other designs.




They are calling for designers to help turn it into the final wallpaper for the distribution but I think it is hopeless. I tried playing around with it and I can't find a way to work it in and not have it look like crap. Hopefully, some more brilliant designer can. Then again only a handful submitted and almost no one voted in the first place, ugh. I wish they could just have a revote.

This was the final design for the default for Fedora 13. Its hard to tell at this size but there were lots of stars.


I guess to be honest Linux is all about doing your own thing, so I am sure most people will switch wallpapers. Here is to hoping that someone can take that concept and make something salvageable out of it.

I like the fedora 13 one enough that I even use it on my nexus one.

Of course the wifi tethering is easy to use but sometimes you don't want wifi on in order to save battery or you want to charge your phone while tehtering. In that case tethered USB tethering is better and its as easy as plugging in an Ethernet cable is. You simple turn on USB tethering in your tethering and portable hot spot settings panel on the android device an plug it in via USB. Fedora auto detects the connection and connects. No settings - all magic.

Well the best part was the verizon dongle. I plugged it in, it detected it and asked me which network I use, I chose verizon, hit apply and it was good to go. I didn't even enter in my credentials which seems kind of crazy but they might be stored on the dongle itself.

The one thing I had a hard time figuring out was how to set the function keys to be function keys and not media keys by default. I did not want to have to hit the fn key to get F1-F16.

Just sudo edit the /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode

1 = media mode default
2 = function key default

It seems pretty awesome so far. I can't believe much more I can do now with my much deeper understanding of the system. I was able to repartition my disk, edit my grub menu and combine a few boot partitions into one and encrypt the whole thing so that I could load fedora 12 and 13 as I transition my stuff over. If only my stupid macbook pro didn't have a fault CD drive I could have done this sooner.

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Between that an getting to the bottom of a long term memory issue on a server at work, I had a pretty good night. That and @terry painted the pillars on the dormer so that tomorrow I just have to sand, re-putty and paint the actual windows.

I spent years using illustrator but now that I am dead set on a FOSS path I decided to learn inkscape. I was following this nice wiki article on inkscape for illustrator users

The one thing that I really miss is the gradient mesh tool. Just about everything else is fine for me, but that one feature made illustrator so awesome. It looks like some people are working on it for inkscape so it may happen sometime but in the meantime, blah.

Tonight, I followed this guy's tutorial on building a rock with inkscape. I think the tools are pretty neat still, althoug it is hard to train you hands to do something other than what they are used to.

Well its not just my server OS anymore. Its been one month and two days and I haven't gone back to os X yet. I am totally in love with linux desktop this time around and don't anticipate going back ever. It just seems so freakin fast, like I have a new laptop. Flash always used to be one of the big issues and they seemed to have fixed that mostly, although who knows, I bet flash starts to die soon anyways - but I thought that for years.



On monday my big project launches. It represents a lot of work but more than that an entirely different approach to managing data by distributing the authorship to the individuals it matters to most with very little constraints. I hope people are ready to take responsibility for their own data. Thanks you linux for making all of this possible. I would never be able to keep up with the computing demands of my job with any other platform.

I made it through one day of linux and got everything done that I wanted.

Verizon USB 760 dongle setup for Fedora 12. As a side note, they are down to $9.99 online.



In order to get 3G working on fedora I needed to use the following setting with NetworkManager.

1. First insert the dongle but then eject the disk that automounts as a CD. If you don't eject the disk it sees the dongle as a disk instead of as a modem. I am pretty sure there is a way to prevent this from happening but I haven't figured it out yet.

2. right-click network manager icon - choose edit connections. Click the mobile broadband tab and enter

Number:#777
Username: your phone @vzw3g.com e.g. 000000XXXX format
Password: vzw

Then just left click the network manager icon and select the network from the list