Bye bye, Miracle Beefy, Welcome Spherical Cow

Every new Fedora release, is a good time to test and see new features, normally I start testing on Alfa, but now after installing it on a test machine did not have to much time to play with it.

Another thing that change on my test is was I installed instead of using preupgrade, the main reason, Fedora 18 has a new installer so I wanted to see how good it was.

On the Alfa version I got a few details, but notice corrections on Beta, wich is good.

The new desktop options on the install including Mate and Cinnamon

 

 

Installation when perfect and after reboot and creating my user account, login into my desktop gnome3.

Gnome3 has nice look and works fine, but wanted to have some of the extensions, to customize a bit so yum install gnome-shell-extensions* to install all and something new and nice happen the fedmsg notification extension started showing me all stuff happening on fedora community, don't know if it was on Fedora 17 but found it now and love it.


For the fist time on long time I will use Spanish as my default Fedora language, let see if I can manage the differences.
Since installed from scratch needed to add small details, one that I has forgotten how to add dictionaries to Evolution my default email client but
Yum install enchant-aspell aspell-es solve that, one thing do if I set up my default desktop language as Spanish why evolution, did not include that dictionary. Think that is a bug to fix or a feature that we need to add.

Other than that Fedora 18 is looking good so far.

En Español aquí

Setting your Hotmail , live email accounts on Evolution (Linux).

After a change on protocols Hotmail and Live email service can receive and send email using Evolution. This is not something new some smart people manage a way to set them up on Evolution before, must of them using some smtp servers and other programs like gotmail, hotsmtp, hotway. But now it got very simpler:

Create Hotmail/Live account on evolution:



add your information then go to the next tab Receiving Email and set it to pop type account and the server as pop3.live.com you need to also set the ecryption type to SSL.



That will allow you to get you email from your hotmail account to your Evolution Inbox, now to send email, on the Send Email tab set to smtp the smtp server is smtp.live.com you need to select the authentication method to TLS and you server require authentication also set your account user name.


Now your are set you can send and receive emails using you Hotmail account from evolution. Enjoy.