Just a small notice this time, I am a bit late, however the first Beta release of Fedora Core 9 was released!

Although I’ve already mentioned which features appeal the most to me in Fedora Core 9, I hadn’t noticed the changes being made to Anaconda. Frequent readers of this blog remember my initial problems with Anaconda, so I’m please to see some progress going on.

One of the most interesting features, to me, is the ability to resize ext2, ex3 and NTFS (!) partitions. The latter being the most interesting for people installing Fedora Core 9 alongside Windows (which I don’t ;-)).

Be sure to grab it and report any problems you find!

Update: Removed the core part, core and extras repositories were merged ever since Fedora 7. I hadn’t realized the effect that this had on the name yet.. *sigh*

Today i succeeded in completing a small Visual basic program that can send instructions via bluetooth to a Nokia (or other AT-commands) cell phones. AT commands where used to communicate directly to the Nokia cell phones. I was struggling for a long time to make a proper connection, i have tried some different Nokia protocols, in fact there are three. The standard At commands, the Mbus and the newer Fbus. There are many sites where you can lookup the supported format.

Although to make a connection with the PC i buy a serial data cable, yes the old serial ones, because we want to connect it lateron to a microcontroller.
To connect it to the pc i must use a usb to serial adapter, because i don’t have a serial port anymore. Like the most of us, i hope ;). Like i said before, i can’t get a proper connection through the cable for a long time, i have tried almost everything. So i came up the idea of using bluetooth instead. It was in fact really easy by then. All the ’simple’ AT commands worked properly. So why didn’t the cable work? I think its about the usb- serial adapter, that have its on drivers. The strange thing is a demo application called: Lylix worked good with (only) the Fbus protocol.

On the other hand, using bluetooth is easier then connecting a cable again and again..

So now the solution or rather called, tutorial:
First check of you (Nokia) phone supports AT commands and have bluetooth. We use a nokia 6021
Second get yourself a bluetooth connection, for example buy a bluetooth dongle.

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It won’t be long until we can welcome Fedora Core 9 into our PC’s onto our hard disks. I’ve already written about the Fedora Core 9 Alpha release, where one could start testing with KDE 4 on Fedora.

Besides KDE 4 there are a lot more interesting things planned for Fedora Core 9. Let’s pinpoint a few interesting changes.
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