My previous article titled "Hallelujah! In-line spell checking added to Kate" brought a lot of traffic to my site through google. This is one of the features that is non-existent in Kate and in Kile, which depends on Kate. I use Kile all the time and an inline spell checking feature would definitely make my life lot easier. On 2007-12-11 user FiNeX reported that "Spell check added on KDE4 version of kate." Unfortunately there have been a lot of issues (or confusion) with it since not may distro's ship the complete KDE4 platform and not all applications that depend on Kate have been ported completely to the KDE4 platform.

Just fixed a long standing audio problem with my HP dv 6500 laptop microphone in Fedora 10. The built-in microphone did not work ever since I started running linux on my laptop (Never had a chance to try an external microphone). I just found a fix for it. Followed the steps provided in this blog post with a few modifications. Used the following
options snd-hda-intel model=laptop-hp
instead of the one provided in the blog.

The fix is not flawless since every time I needed to use the mic I have to go to then volume control and remove the microphone mute (see the attached picture).

The voting for the Fedora 10 codename ended Yesterday and the results are out. ``Cambridge'' got 44 votes more than my first preference ``Nile'' to be the code name for F10.

Earlier this week the start of voting for Fedora 10 codename was announced. The voting ends 23:59:59 28 July 2008 UTC. Anyone part of the Fedora project can cast a vote. Take a look at the possible codenames below

In the past people voted on one of their choice so basically a radio button was used. But right now one can give a rating from 0 - 9 with 0 as 'least or no preference' and 9 as 'highest preference.

Richard Huges recently sent a message to the Fedora devel list about some of the updates to the PackageKit UI. One of the main updates is the support for multiple install and remove (which I ranted about in my earlier post). Check out the UI from git.

The message also triggered a thread on group install support in PackageKit. Looks like they are still in the planning stages of it and we may not expect to see it soon. The multiple install support should be available soon as indicated by Richard in his message.

AMD has been making constant progress for the past 6 months by providing support for their graphics cards in Linux. There has been six driver releases, their driver numbering system has now changed (to reflect the year and month thereby releasing an update each month), the installer has gone through some much needed changes and best of all they have releases register specifications to lot more GPUs. A few days ago they announced the latest driver, AMD Catalyst 8.6 Linux Driver, for general availability. Yesterday it was reported that AMD ships Linux drivers on CD with just announced Radeon HD 4800 "RV770" series graphics cards along with same-day Linux support for these cards. This is indeed a great development since most hardware manufacturers provide no initial Linux driver support for bleeding edge hardware. Our friends in Phoronix also report that AMD is very close to reaching feature parity between the Windows and Linux drivers. Kudos to AMD for providing better Linux driver support.

I have been running the GCC screensaver on my Averatec laptop for almost a week now. Wonder what I am talking about? I installed Gentoo and have been playing with it for a week.

I recently installed MATLAB 2007a on a computer running Fedora 8. While installing I got an error which was something like
libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. Running the following command fixed it
su -c 'yum install libXp libXp-devel'

I recently got an Averatec 2100 series notebook from my brother. This notebook is white in color and looks like a mac; it is very small, highly portable and includes a lot of features.