Thursday, July 29, 2010

What is Fedora?

Fedora is an acronym for the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture. The Fedora Repository is very flexible; it is capable of serving as a digital content repository for a wide variety of uses. Among these are digital asset management, institutional repositories, digital archives, content management systems, scholarly publishing enterprises, and digital libraries. The Fedora Repository is able to store any sort of digital content item such as documents, videos, data sets, computer files, images plus it can store information (often called metadata) about the content items in any format. In addition, the relationships between content items can be stored - which is often as important as the content items themselves. You can choose to store just the metadata and relationships for content which is held by another organization or system. The Fedora Repository is a product of Fedora Commons, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide technology that enables durable storage and access to the digital content that increasingly records our cultural and scientific heritage. The Fedora Repository like all Fedora Commons products is provided as free, open-source software under the Apache 2.0 license.

The Fedora Repository is designed to be a component that may be easily integrated into an application or system that provides additional functions which satisfy a particular end-user’s or organization’s needs. While the Fedora Repository is capable operating as a standalone content server, it is really designed for use with other software. In most cases, the Fedora Repository will only part of a complete content solution which will incorporate other components such as authoring or ingest applications, search engines, workflow management, and security components such as user identity management.

Since Fedora is so flexible, integration with other software is easy and there are a number of benefits to Fedora’s component-based architecture. One of these benefits is that you can use the same repository for many applications enabling a high degree of integration for your content, avoiding islands of information, without having to change your applications. Another benefit is that you control your content assets without any vendor lock-in. There are many other benefits to this approach that we will describe later in this tutorial.

A key part of the Fedora Commons mission is to enable durable access to content. We have all experienced the inability to access content items even a few years old. The Fedora Repository enables technology that aids organizations in stewardship of the content they host.

Wine

Generally, it's not possible to install any Windows software in any Linux Operating Systems.
i.e. we can not use any kind of .exe file in Linux.

But there is a way to install Windows software in Linux. To install .exe file we have to install Wine software in Linux O.S. Due to wine Linux O.S. can't determine .exe format. And allows to install & use in computer.
But, some of the windows software may not be supported after installation.

to install wine, go through these steps ::

1.) Login as a root user in terminal.
2.) type :
            yum install wine

wait for a time.
In Application, wine'll be there.

Sound In Fedora

In Fedora distribution, sound codecs for any media player is not installed. So, no media player can play Audio / Video songs.
To remove this problem install VLC media player in your Fedora Distribution.

1.) Open your terminal.
2.) login as a root user.
3.) type this code :
                    yum install vlc

Now, wait for some time. Your terminal will download vlc media player with it's necessary codecs.

Once, complete..!!!

Enjoy your media.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Download Fedora 13

You can download Fedora Core 13 from here, link given below::

1st Day with Fedora

Now a days, open source platform is  growing more faster.
Due to,
          1.)  It's Free.
          2.)  We can change source code easily.
          3.)  Also can distribute it again as our own operating system.
          4.)  It is robust platform, don't need to restart for many time, may be
                some years also.
I installed Fedora Core 13 bundled with Linux For You magazine. It was fantastic.
User friendly nature it has. Special command for installation is yum to perform some specific tasks like installing, removing etc. related to add/removing or upgrading any software.

I'm student of Computer Science & Engineering. So, I ever like play around open source play ground.