rpmrebuild is the fast way to create an customized rpm. This rpm can include modification in file like configuration file to will be used directly on the future or include some new files to improve the application.

To install rpmrebuild :

#yum install rpmrebuild

After modification of your application you can launch this command to create your rpm :

#rpmrebuild package_name

Others service is the possibility to modify the spec so you can add files, add commands on installation or others steps and more without recompile your application.

If you want to create Arabic or Farsi Latex documents, you'll need arabi (http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=arabi).

If you don't own a TexLive based Latex distribution, like Fedora 9. and want to work with arabi, I'll show you how to install it on your own home directory. All you have to do is follow the few following steps:

Bonne nouvelles pour les propriétaires d'une carte ATI avec le chipset à base de R500 (Mobility Radeon X1xxx) le pilote Radeon supporte enfin l'acceleration 3D.
Pour obtenir la 3D il vous faut les drivers ati et mesa :
# yum update mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU xorg-x11-drv-ati
Il faut également ajouter dans la section Device du fichier xorg.conf :
Section "Device"
Identifier "radeon"
Driver "radeon"

To build MySQL GEM for Ruby (Rails) on Linux you'll need Ruby Gems and development packages for Ruby and MySQL. For Fedora 9, you need, as root:
yum -y install mysql-devel ruby-devel rubygems
than, you do :
gem install -y mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mysql_config
and you're ready to roll,

Je vous invites à voir cette comparaisons entres les trois distributions Fedora, Ubuntu et Mandriva de Linux : http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_3way_pts&num=1  

Pour tous les courageux, la version beta de KDE 4.1 est maintenant disponible dans le dépôt rawhide (la version est taggé 4.0.8).