I think it’s easier just to setup the google repo and fetch it all at once. blah, blah, blah, Done. Launch it via “google-chrome” or from the gnome toolbar. That’s it for installing on Fedora 12. If you’re looking for Fedora 10 or Fedora 11, try these links…

While there are application groups for just about every category of software from graphics, software development, office productivity, multimedia, and others, there’s no specific group for security or auditing related packages. Here’s a list of the security and auditing related packages that are now available in the standard Fedora 12 repositories. From intrusion detection to data recovery, Fedora has come a long way in the last couple of years.

Download a Fedora 12 DVD image from a fedora mirror. Install it on a system with the packages you want to be installed on your custom DVD distribution. Install isomaster. Edit 2 files, replace them in your image and burn. Yes, it’s that easy.

The google repo has google-desktop-linux, google-chrome-unstable, and a ton of other packages. Or you can just open the two links in a browser and download/install them from there. You’ll find things like the kmod-VirtualBox-OSE kernel module, mythtv, xmms, vlc, ffmpeg, libmpeg2, gstreamer, and Nestopia (remember nesticle, the Nintendo emulator?) here. You can get Adobe Reader here if you want to go full retard. I use a much faster pdf reader called “Poppler” (package name is poppler) that you can get in the standard repos.

The default installations of Fedora 12 (64-bit intel and 32-bit ppc, at least) are really bloated. There are tons of new packages that don’t belong in a default installation. There are a ton more than I just don’t have any need for. To be fair, you can do a net install which gives you a smaller footprint to begin with and you have the option to customize the installations to avoid installing anything you don’t need in the first place. But do I really need special support packages for specific Lexmark printers by default? How about cheese, ivtv-firmware, or fpaste?

My old method was to install some sort of flash player plugin named something like “libflashplayer.so” and copy it from /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 to the plugins directory under “~/.mozilla/plugins/”. But now that’s old school. All you need to do in Fedora 12 is:

With Samba using a clustered database, you can now export the same shared storage (this is only on the gfs2 file system - I haven’t seen any testing on ocfs2) on multiple nodes in an active/active samba cluster. The storage on clients that mount this export will be available when active failover occurs from one server node to another.