After installing Fedora Core 5 we have a lot of software already available, thanks to Fedora Extras. But unfortunately some software is not packaged by Fedora Extras guys, so we can add a few extra repositories to increase the available software to install (and to increase the possibilities of breaking everything for a dependency problem). The repositories I recomende are: FreshrpmsDries And adding Livna and ATrpms, but both disabled by

MP3 codecs installation.Due to licensing problems Fedora Core 5 doesn’t install any MP3 codec. As there are still people posting podcasts with MP3 format instead of OGG, and I’m too lazy to convert all the podcasts, I have to install MP3 codecs. For XMMS-MP3 suport we can get xmms-mp3 from freshrpms.net http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/xmms-mp3/ As of this writing: http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/xmms-mp3/xmms-mp3-1.2.10-15.fc5.i386.rpm is the latest version. Video Codecs Due to licencing problems (deja vú?) FC5

Just for hackers First of all install terminal launch capabilities for nautilus. I cannot get used to having to go to the menu to launch Terminal. yum install nautilus-open-terminal Once installed you must restart nautilus (that implies login out and  in again into Gnome). The marvel: The deskbar. One of the best enhancements of Gnome 2.14 is the deskbar. I can’t understand why it isn’t part of Core and it’s