Fedora has thousands of packages and applications in its repos. However due to license and patent issues quite a lot of such applications and packages are not available in main repo. So, first thing that you need to do to be able to install needed apps and drivers is to install/enable various repos.
There are three repos that will give you almost everything that you need from Fedora.
The installation of these repos is extremely easy (just click on the links above and follow the instructions.) Keep in mind, enable one repo at a time and wait for it to enable completely. Once the repos are enabled, I will recommend running the update so that Fedora is updated before we move to install other codecs and drivers. Now, you can install application such as VLC, LibreOffice, GIMP, Amarok, Thunderbird, etc.
Swapnil Bhartiya
A free software fund-a-mental-ist and Charles Bukowski fan, Swapnil also writes fiction and tries to find cracks in a proprietary company's 'paper armours'. He is a big movie buff and prefers listening to music at such high volumes that he's gone partially deaf when it comes to identifying anything positive about proprietary companies. You can follow him on Twitter, Google+ & Facebook. You can write to him on editor at muktware dot com
