I was curious one day when performing a fresh install of Fedora on my Laptop. I saw New York Listed as the available time-zone (as it typically is) to indicate Eastern Standard Time(EST). What about Orlando, where I live.

I performed a quick google search and found this helpful article on how to add a specific city to a time-zone. Hopefully, you’ll find this useful as well.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/add-your-city-linuxs-list-time-zones

Enjoy, and try not to break your system too bad when following these steps.

So I was having quite a bit of trouble trying to get amarok 2 compiled. I found that within the fc9 and livna repos, libmtp was 0.2.6 and amarok requires libmtp 0.3. I downloaded the correct libmtp version extracted it and compiled it, then I went to re-make amarok and got this error:
Linking CXX shared module ../../../lib/libamarok_collection-mtpcollection.so
CMakeFiles/amarok_collection-mtpcollection.dir/handler/MtpHandler.o: In function `Mtp::MtpHandler::iterateRawDevices(int, LIBMTP_raw_device_struct*, QString const&)’:
/home/shaun/Download/amarok/src/collection/mtpcollection/handler/MtpHandler.cpp:147: undefined reference to `LIBMTP_Open_Raw_Device’
CMakeFiles/amarok_collection-mtpcollection.dir/handler/MtpHandler.o: In function `Mtp::MtpHandler::init(QString const&)’:
/home/shaun/Download/amarok/src/collection/mtpcollection/handler/MtpHandler.cpp:85: undefined reference to `LIBMTP_Detect_Raw_Devices’
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make Error 1
make Error 2
make: *** Error 2

UPDATE: In kde4, you can right click your desktop, select desktop settings and select New Themes…

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So I found a great article on how to install my first non-default Plasma Theme. I’ve copied most of the steps, but found that some didn’t apply to me. I’m currently running kde4.1 under Fedora 9. If you have any questions, leave a comment and we’ll help where we can.

Steps to take:

Worked like a charm for me. Great article from http://pramodrt.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/changing-the-kde4-plasma-theme/

So I’ve been using Linux for the past couple of years. By no means am I an expert on the varying flavors nor do I think that there is one that is better than others for all circumstances. I think this is a healthy forum for discussion and I’m always open to input from the community.

First of all, I’ll list the flavors I’ve used. With that in mind, you’ll notice that I haven’t used all of the distros. My experience is from my limited exposure to those I have used. Keep in mind, my goal was to provide the best development environment for my laptop with my level of experience.