Common misconception about using linux are busted using

1. Myths About Linux
(busted with fedora )

2. Myth 1

3. Linux Installation is difficult.

4. Few screen shots about fedora installation that
explains it all

7. Myth 2

8. You have to know all commands
before using Linux.

9. Here's what new Fedora with KDE 4.1 has
to offer

11. Myth 3

12. There is no one­click installation in
Linux, I have to compile everything.

13. With the advent of package managers , installation of
software's has become real easy .
Yum is what looks after packages in fedora .
Fedora has got “packagekit” as its basic GUI package
manager since Fedora 9 .
Fedora now supports click to install rpms .. and
its easy

14. Some Screenshots :

15. Myth 4

16. Linux Lack applications.

17. One major concept is ..Installing Linux is a headache
as I cannot do jobs I do in a windows machine .
However Fedora has more than 7000+ software that
are free to use and modify .
Any kind of work can be done on a Linux machine .

18. Myth 5

19. Media files cant be played on Linux

20. RPMFusion

21. Some files that can be played in fedora :
Supported audio codec :
* MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio
* AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF)
* AAC (MPEG­4 audio)
* WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2
* WMA 9 (WMAv3), Voxware audio, ACELP.net etc (using x86 DLLs)
* RealAudio: COOK, SIPRO, ATRAC3 (using Real libraries)
* RealAudio: DNET and older codecs
* QuickTime: Qclp, Q­Design QDMC/QDM2, MACE 3/6 (using QT
libraries), ALAC
* Ogg Vorbis audio
* VIVO audio (g723, Vivo Siren) (using x86 DLL)
* alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, *adpcm and other simple old audio formats

22. Supported Video Codec :
* MPEG­1 (VCD) and MPEG­2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video
* MPEG­4 ASP in all variants including DivX ;­), OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX
5 (Pro), Xvid
* MPEG­4 AVC aka H.264
* Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2)
* Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL)
* RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2)
* RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries)
* Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA , QuickTime codecs
* DV video
* 3ivx
* Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2)
* Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs)
* VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using x86 DLL)
* MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats
* FLI/FLC
* HuffYUV
* simple RLE­like formats

23. These are supported by :
1. mplayer
2.VLC
3.xine
4.xmms
5.Kaffeine
6.Totem
7.Amarok
and many more

24. Myth 6

25. Linux is only for Computer
Science /Information
Technology Students

26. Fedora Electronics Lab
(FEL)

27. Myth 7

28. Programming is difficult in
linux

29. C/C++ programming
GCC ,vi /emacs
Anjuta
Glade/gtk ,etc
Qt , Kdevelop

30. Java
OpenJdk
Fedora eclipse
Sun java ,Netbeans etc

31. Web designing
Apache server
php,perl, jsp, etc
mysql,postgresql
And lots more

32. And the list goes on .....

33. Why fedora ?

34. Answer is here.

35. Q/A