So here we go.My first crush was Suse Linux 10.2, but I use Fedora mostly for my daily purpose.
It is pretty easy and painless to install.You have to be care full at a couple of places if u are installing linux on your machine for the first time.While partioning the drives where there is a potential possibility of your linux being installed on the entire hard drive thus removing any other os like windows.Once you’ve installed Fedora you would be needing some warez to customize to desktop.
Mplayer(If you are using Fedora or Suse else you wouldn’t have to worry if other distro’s like Mandriva as they have pre-installed gstreamer plugins for mp3 playback)
If you are using linux for the first time and wondering how to play mp3’s.Although there isnt any pre-installed music players for playing mp3’s download codec’s for the default music player such as banshee and rhythmBox else mplayer would play virtually any format of multimedia.Mplayer is very easy to find on google.After following the readme file the installation must be complete.Well the gui should be enabled while compliling for the gui interface or you would have to play your songs from terminal.
Beryl window manager
This was the most attractive feature for me when I installed linux for the first time-The 3-d cube effect.In the latest Suse 10.3,11.0 Alpha and Mandriva 2008 have beryl shipped in the cd itself with most of the video drivers.
Beryl gives a 3-d cube effect of linux to the user,where the workspaces are put on each side of the cube.There are a lot of additional features in Beryl which are worth exploring.Well it pretty much screwed many of frnds systems which dint have good enough graphics card(prolly the reason)
Beryl can be installed from the Fedora repositories using Yum.There are many other alternatives of beryl such as compiz XGL desktop of Mandrake i guess not very sure.
http://beryl-project.org/
A video of beryl…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7QraljRfM
Yum
Yum(Yellow Dog Updater,Modifier) is a software management tool for Fedora.Softwares and packages can be installed and updated using yum.For installing beryl using yum
go to root using su
then
yum -y install beryl
Exporting Proxy for Yum
If behind a firewall or a proxy,one would have to configure it by going to the yum configuration file.
vim /etc/yum.conf
Then open the file yum.conf in any editor and then export the proxy.
proxy=http://your-username:password@your-proxy-server:portnumber
if your servers requires autentication.
now yum is ready to use.Yum can be used to install libraries and various packages.
RPM’s
Red hat package management system.The can be installed by just clicking it,the softwares manager looks after the rest.If you have a problem installing a rpm one can always do it using The terminal.
go to root :su
cd .. to the folder of the rpm
rpm -ivh filename-of-the-rpm.rpm
Rpm can also be installed directly from a ftp


rpm -U ftp://myserver.myorg.net/upgrades/bar-2.2.rpm
One could always force install a rpm if failing due to some dependencies.
http://www.rpm.org/

DC++ on fedora.
DC++(direct connect)is a peer to peer file sharing client.A very powerful when using in LAN or on high speed internet lines.It works either on Valknut or Dc++ port of linux Linuxdcpp as the clients.