Furasta.Org version 1.0 Beta will be released on 1st August 2010. What will be in this beta? Almost everything required to run a website. The Beta is merely a formality to allow for unforeseen bug fixes.

I had planned to do so much with Furasta.Org, but I have been forced to narrow it down to a small list of features. Additional features will be added through the plugin architecture, and in time to the main CMS.

• Editing Pages – the most obvious and fundamental feature, but I have added a few thing to this that I haven’t seen elsewhere.
• Users and Permissions – It will be possible to set who can view certain pages, and even who can edit them. In the future I hope to expand on this section with User Groups, though they will not be included in this release.
• Website Configuration – General settings, also including some new ideas I haven’t seen anywhere.
• Template Management – Set what template or theme to use for the website’s appearance. Though not in this release, I hope to add an online template repository which one can browse from the CMS admin panel.
• Plugin Architecture – One of the largest and most important features of the whole system. This complex architecture will allow other developers to use Furasta.Org to their advantage. Through the use of a “hook” system, vaguely similar to wordpress’s, I hope to offer the developer total control over almost every part of the CMS. In the future I also plan to add a plugin repository to the website, which will include verified, safe plugins and which will be installable from the admin panel.
• Upgrade Manager – Regardless of what I have said so far; this is the most important feature. I was of two minds as to including this feature so soon, but I decided that If this was enabled then systmes would be updated smoothly along with new releases.

So there’s a lot in store – and the first website running the CMS will be Furasta.Org – live on the 1st August 2010.

Who would have thought that it would be so much bother just to install mplayer?

yum install mplayer

Oh my god. It doesn’t work.

I just re-installed Fedora 10 last week and didn’t get around to installing mplayer until now. I can distinctly remember that when I did it on my older installation it installed without a glitch.

Anyhow this time I just sat there and scratched my head for a while. I never really made a decent attempt to do anything about it until now – enough became enough! I want my music back!

Ok lets start with why this is happening in the first place. You see recently livna (an rpm repository) merged with two other repositories and formed rpmfusion. But linva still exists. It still has some packages that rpmfusion doesn’t, don’t ask me why! So there is an easy way around the problem; install both of the damn things!

yum install livna

Click here to download rpmfusion F 8,9,10.

Then simple as:

yum install mplayer

and hey presto!