I finally got around to signing up with the microblogging site Identi.ca. Apparently it’s where the true geeks are! I used the handle [mjmwired](http://identi.ca/mjmwired) to make this more specific to my site and technical stuff. For the time being, unless I know someone, I am subscribing only to Linux and Fedora related people and groups. I hope to change that. I am currently following a group of Fedora developers and contributors that have participated in mailing lists or have a blog, etc.

The availability of the Fedora 11 Beta release was announced earlier today. The beta will be the first real glimpse at the incredibly large number of major changes which will be shipped in Fedora 11. The Fedora Wiki hosts the official status page for F11 features. Some of the inclusions are quite interesting: 20 Second Startup - The idea is to make it to the login screen in 20 seconds and speedup logging in [to GNOME].

As been noted, the NetworkManager update in Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 prevents YUM from performing a regular update. Apparently due to a bug in the Fedora Update system. The following error may be seen: Public key for NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-3.fc10.i386.rpm is not installed The solution is coming soon, but for a temporary workaround YUM supports an exclude option: yum --exclude=NetworkManager\* update This should ignore NetworkManager related packages and continue on in the update process.

A great deal of the following is all old news. Adobe has has Flash Plugin for x86_64 Linux architecture in Beta since Oct 2008. The only thing, is that since it is provided in a tarball (.tar.gz), you are better off builing an RPM (spec file). Note that the 32bit i386 version still works perfectly with nspluginwrapper. Similarily Sun has released the Java JRE web plugin for x86_64 archictecture. Installation is the very identical to 32bit.

If you are using Xine from RPMFusion and experiencing crashing immediately after loading in Fedora 10, it is probably due to this bug. Quick work-around is to use Alsa instead of PulseAudio. Open a shell and launch Xine as follows: [mirandam@phoebe ~]$ xine -A alsa To make this setting stick, do the following: Right-Click in the Xine window > Settings > Setup…. In the gui tab, change the Configuration experience level to Advanced, then hit Apply at the bottom of the window.