Attaching an Anrdoid phone to Fedora 10

The file /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules must contain:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb",SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4",SYMLINK+="android_adb",MODE="0666"

After that execute:

# udevcontrol reload_rules

Then attach your device. You should be able to see it reported by the command

# $ANDROID_HOME/tools/adb devices

Thunderbird URL handlers

Even on a KDE system Thunderbird relies on the definition of URL handlers contained within gconf. To edit these look in $HOME/.gconf or install the RPM gconf-editor and edit away.

A recent Fedora 9 auto update broke networking and keyboard input to the X login screen. This pushed me to reinstall Kubuntu again. Fortunately after a few days another Fedora auto update fixed the problems.

I now have been able to get audio working with skype on Kubuntu. Here are the snapshots of the required settings, so I don't forget them again.

OpenSuse 11.0 installed

Installed OpenSuse 11.0 over the top of the 10.3 installation. This is a much more slick version of OpenSuse. Installation and setup were very easy and flawless. KDE4 looks better on OpenSuse than it does on Fedora 9 for some reason.

Setup of OpenSuse complete

Setup of OpenSuse is now complete. It wasn't nearly as slick or easy as Fedora or Kubuntu. I had to run extra config utilities after installation to get X to start with my very mainstream video card. Eclipse crashes immediately, I will have to investigate.

OpenSuse 10.3

OpenSuse 10.3 has taken the place of Kubuntu as my experimental Linux. I installed from DVD. It took a bit of fiddling with the Yast configuration tool to get it to support my video card and monitor so that X would work. After that a bit more fiddling with the config to enable the network. It's odd that the network isn't enabled at installation time.

Give up on Kubuntu

Kubuntu works nicely, but I really have to give up on it. It is just a bit too different from my usual Fedora/Redhat environment. A few strange differences in the behaviour of bash when driven from my makefiles isn't comforting.