One of the pleasures of using Zend Studio, and often trying out Fedora Linux pre-releases, is that Zend Studio often breaks on upgrading… this was the case with fedora 6, 7 and now with 8-test2 as well.
If you try to start ZDE after upgrading your system to Fedora 8 test2 (or any other recent xorg/libxcb [...]

An ongoing project is packaging “SLAB” (the new gnome main menu replacement by SuSE/Novell), to intergrate this well into the Fedora envirioment a lot of code changes and patches are required.
One of the major changes is that the mainline gnome doesn’t support ‘recent applications’ yet, so this has been replaced by ‘Locations’ in Fedora’s version, [...]

APC (http://pecl.php.net/package/APC) has been packages for Fedora, and can be installed on Fedora by typing:
# yum install php-pecl-apc
It will include a default configuration file (/etc/php.d/apc.conf) with some sane default settings and configured to use upto 32Mb of shared memory for caching php scripts. If you have a large hosting envirioment with lots of PHP files, [...]

BUOH, a comics browser for the GNOME environment (http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?buoh) has been packaged for Fedora, it can be installed on Fedora Core 4, 5, 6 and devel by typing:
# yum install buoh
Spec files etc can be viewed in fedora’s cvs

rtorrent and libtorrent (from: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/) are now packaged & available for Fedora in Fedora extra’s (for Fedora Core 4, 5, 6 and devel).
Their without a doubt the best console torrent client for linux, especially when combined with ’screen’, and can seed faster then just about any other client out there.
In fedora these can be installed [...]