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What is new in Fedora 13 ?

Automatic Print Driver Installation : gutenprint-packages such as cups, hpijs and pbm2l2030 must be installed on demand when the hardware that require drivers are detected.

Color Management : Color Manager GNOME session is a framework that makes it easy to handle, install and create color profiles in the GNOME desktop

Easier Debugging Python : The gdb debugger has been extended so that it can communicate detailed information about the inner workings of Python 2 and Python 3 runtimes 

3D Support: In Fedora 12 experimental support for 3D through-mesa-dri package-experimental drivers for ATI cards became available and has been expanded in Fedora 13 to support the systems through Nouveau Nvidia Driver.

PulseAudio Integration KDE  : Fedora 13 offers a better integration of PulseAudio in Phonon KDE and KMix

Bluetooth DUN NetworkManager: NetworkManager now supports easy-to-use Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking (DUN) support.

Include include Gnome 2.30.

Mobile NetworkManager Status : The NetworkManager applet shows the current signal strength, technology (GPRS / EDGE / UMTS / HSPA or 1x/EVDO etc), and roaming status while connected to the cards which support this functionality.

Fedora 13 SC have KDE 4.4, GNOME 2.30, support NFSv4, RPM 4.8, support both Python 3 and Python 2.x, OpenOffice.org 3.2.0, the Sugar desktop 0.88 (famous for its integration into the XO laptop One Laptop Per Child project), Firefox 3.6.2, and Upstart 0.6.0.

Typing Tutor for ubuntu / Debian Linux : Klavaro

Klavaro is a FREE Software for learning Typewriting. It will help you to learn Typewriting in systematic way, quickly and correctly in QWERTY keyboard. It also support other languages and keyboard formats.

Klavaro Features:
* Internationalization
* Ready to use keyboard layouts
* Basic course
* Adaptability exercises
* Velocity exercises
* Fluidness exercises
* Progress charts
* Keyboard Layout Editor
* Semi-online contest
* Clean graphical interface

How to install in Ubuntu / Debian
$ sudo apt-get install klavaro

If you want to run semi online contest you have to install libcurl3

$ sudo apt-get install libcurl3