First download the Sun/Oracle JRE from their web site in RPM format. The JRE in Fedora does not work. You have to get the one from Sun.

Install it:

yum install ./jre-6u31-linux-i586.rpm

Create a directory for it:

mkdir -p /opt/minecraft/client/

Download the software from here:

cd /opt/minecraft/client/
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/launcher/minecraft.jar

Download the icon:

wget -O icon.png http://www.minecraftwiki.net/images/c/c5/Grass.png

Create a desktop icon to run it.

cd ~/Desktop

Here are two ways to get a changelog history of a given Fedora package. The results of both commands are usually similar but not always.

The below example will show the changelog of the darktable package.

repoquery --changelog darktable

rpm -q --changelog darktable

I first tried to use the OpenJDK project but could not get it to work.

I ended up having to download an RPM of the official JRE from sun.

http://java.com/en/download/

I then installed it.

yum install ./jre-6u30-linux-i586.rpm

Then created the following directory if it does not already exist.

mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Next setup a symlink.

cd ~/.mozilla/plugins/
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_30/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so libnpjp2.so

Now restart your browser.

This works for both FireFox and Chrome.

First install ndiswrapper

yum install ndiswrapper kmod-ndiswrapper

If that also upgraded kernels you will have to reboot at this point to use the new kernel that matches the version of the ndiswrapper kenrel module installed.

Now download the driver files needed from the link below.

http://www.kevinfowler.net/Netgear-WNA3100.tar.gz

Untar it then install the driver with ndiswrapper.

tar zxvf Netgear-WNA3100.tar.gz
cd Netgear
ndiswrapper -i bcmwlhigh5.inf

Now load the kernel module.

modprobe ndiswrapper

*** UPDATE: This is now not needed in Fedora 16. They finally added a program for turning it on the old way. Just go to Internet then click on "Desktop Sharing". ***

This is the equivalent of turning on the "Remote Desktop" support in Fedora 14 and below. This feature is one of the many missing from Gnome 3.x. The following method will allow it to work again in Fedora 15/16.

Install x11vnc package.

yum install x11vnc

Run the following as the user who's session you want to VNC to. When prompted enter the password you want to use to connect with.

vncpasswd

Download the latest version of the Android SDK from here (the latest version of this post is r15):

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Untar into your home directory and setup a symlink to it:

cd ~
tar zxvf Downloads/android-sdk_r15-linux.tgz
ln -s android-sdk-linux android

Add the following to your path by editing .bash_profile and append the PATH variable. Then log out and back in for it to take effect.

$HOME/android/tools:$HOME/android/platform-tools

Install Java:

yum install java

Update the SDK by typing:

First setup the Google repositorys.

Now, create a file called /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo and put the following in it:

[google]
name=Google - i386
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

[google-testing]
name=Google Testing - i386
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/testing/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

NOTE: In the above example I have both the regular and testing repos enabled. If you are not feeling cutting edge change the enabled field to 0 under the testing section.

Type the following to add focus follows mouse in Fedora 15 with gnome-shell:

gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode -t string mouse

Download the Android SDK from here:

http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r09-linux_x86.tgz

Untar into your home directory and setup a symlink to it:

cd ~
tar zxvf android-sdk_r09-linux_x86.tgz
ln -s android-sdk-linux_x86 android

Add the following to your path by editing .bash_profile and append the PATH variable. Then log out and back in for it to take effect.

$HOME/android/tools:$HOME/android/platform-tools

Update the SDK by typing:

android update sdk

Select the version of API's and matching Android versions.

This is how to setup the fully configurable Compiz-Fusion in Fedora. This will give you much more configuration than the built-in "Desktop Effects" stripped down version.

First install packages needed:

yum install compiz-fusion ccsm

Go to System->Preferences->Start Up Applications.

Click the Add button.

Enter the following Fields:

Name: Compiz Manager
Command: compiz-manager
Comment: Start Compiz Fusion

Logout then log back into X windows.