Fedora 10 out and on my xps 1210

Fedora 10 went GA on 25th nov 08 and I was counting days for over a month. I was pretty happy with fedora 9 with few exception of system crashes when using skype. In any case I had to try out the new version. Believe me, I never had a troublefree all working linux before. Always something or other had problems. Audio, else video or flash or jdk.......but not this time.

-INSTALL
This time instead of downloading the dvd image, i decided to get the gnome live cd since the download times is less for this.
Booted through the cd, click the desktop item and the install started. If you have installed fedora before this should not be any different.
My wireless internet was easy to configure and less cranky than on fedora 9.

-POST INSTALL
no open office, no jdk
instead found abiword
Fine good for me, I prefer to install openoffice and jdk manually myself.
Here is the list of packages I removed/added:
yum remove pidgin
yum install empathy [bye bye pidgin and hello empathy - gtalk call support]
yum install vlc [for all my video needs]
I had xmms on fedora 9 but decided to use rythmbox going forward as it was already installed. There are radio channels in it. free music :-)
yum install gnome-applet-netspeed [I like to see how much bandwidth my comcast internet connection gives, I had to configure the applet on panel]
yum remove abiword
yum install wget
wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-fc7 [downloading skype rpm]
rpm -ivh skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586.rpm [after install, had to chage audio settings]
Also downloaded the rpm for adobe reader and flash player from adobe site and installed them. The flash plugin showed up on about:plugins on firefox and youtube was working without any headaches [really surprised]y
yum install gstreamer-plugin* [to add mp3 support to rythmbox]
For java and openoffice, I followed the install instruction on respective sites. [quite similar to my install on fedora 9 actually]

Ahh.....after a day, when I actually installed jdk1.6.0.10, my logmein on firefox did not work. firefox started hanging on remote connectivity. Suspecting java plugin issue, reverted back to the old version i had on fedora 9 which was jdk1.6.0.07. Everything works fine now.

oops few more days and I found that I am not able to connect my laptop to tv to watch youtube videos. After heavy googling, i came to know that something has broken in f10 and was forced to play around with randr
-to see connections run
xrandr
-to configure dual monitor
xrandr --output TV --mode 800x600 --set TV_FORMAT NTSC-M
-to stop replication to tv
xrandr --output TV --off

Though my entire 12 inch monitor is not correctly replicated on tv screen, it's sufficient to see youtube videos on full screen mode.