Finally, Fedora released their latest Fedora 11 Final. After more than 6 month development, and postponed twice on 26th May and 2nd June. Although I often discuss on my blog about Ubuntu tips and tricks, but Fedora really one of my favourite Linux.

One of the top discuss topic about Fedora 11 is the boot up time. Now the boot up time have reduced to 20 seconds, 10 seconds faster than Fedora 10. Let appreciate the boot up screen from Fedora team.

Download: Fedora 11 Final from official site

Download from Fedora 11 Final through bittorrent

Opera has just released their first Opera 10 beta to public. This version supports Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, Solaris, QNX, OS/2 and BeOS.

There are some features why you would like to have the new version 10.

1. Opera turbo for fast browsing on slow connection
2. New visual tabs and sleek design
3. Speed dial
4. Web integration
5. Resizable search field
6. 40% faster engine and cutting edge Web standards support
7. Inline spell-check
8. Auto update
9. Email your way
10. Automated Crash Reporting
11. Opera Dragonfly evolved

Is that all? Hm. To Opera users, the Version 10 seem to be a very promising upgrade to them. But for other browsers users, the attractiveness is there yet. Quite a lot new features mentioned which already long impletemented on Firefox and Google Chrome already.

I do wish Opera could have more evolutionary move towards the next HTML5. Maybe to me support Acid 100/100 isn’t the key feature to make me use Opera.

Cheat-Sheets.org is the only place I have been visiting for any quick reference, not only for Linux, but also other programming and web developments languages. They even have cheat sheet on chemistry topic?!

Quoted from there, these are the Linux cheat sheet you might need.

• Linux Command Line Tips [html] (pixelbeat.org)
• Linux Shortcuts and Commands [html] (linuxshortcuts.shtml)
• Unix/Linux Command Cheat Sheet by Jacob [pdf] (fosswire.net)
• The One Page Linux Manual by Squadron [pdf] (homepage.powerup.com.au/~squadron/, digilife.be)
• Linux Administrator’s Quick Reference by Jialong He [pdf] (tiger.la.asu.edu)
• Linux System Calls Quick Reference by Jialong He [pdf] (tiger.la.asu.edu)
• Linux Security Quick Reference by Dave Wreski & Benjamin Thomas [pdf] (tiger.la.asu.edu, digilife.be)
• screen Quick Reference [html] (aperiodic.net)

While, Ubuntu One is still in closed beta, only through invitation to get access to it. I’ve applied it for more than one week, but still haven’t get any response from them. So, people very intuitive will take Ubuntu One and Dropbox for comparison, what so special about Ubuntu One?

Ubuntu One users get 2GB free storage spaces and for $10/month, you are able to get 10GB of spaces! But, with the same amount of money, I would able to get 50GB of spaces from Dropbox! And Dropbox not only run on Linux, but also Mac and Windows.

I think Ubuntu definitely lose its attractiveness compare to Dropbox. So, we will need to wait and see during the official release is there any more features can be provided from Canonical to gain back the attractiveness.

It has been a while I have been using kill command to stop the non responsive running process. But until yesterday then I found out there is a much simple linux command that can do the job of kill and even much better way.

It is pkill command. Pkill is written for Solaris7 and later has been implement for Linux and NetBSD. Unlike the kill command which you need to find out the specific process id to do the killing. With pkill, all you need is just to know the process name, if can’t remember the full or just maybe part of the process name.

So if I want to kill my firefox, just type in

pkill firefox

However, it might also kill process name match the search, maybe there is some other process also call firefox-bookmark or etc.