Fedora 8 Review: The beauty and the beast

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

We had a codec buddy bug which fails to show up the initial message and 
that in turns makes it pretty confusing. A update has already fixed it 
but I doubt reviewers are going to first do an update. Atleast for the 
games, we have a wrapper that somewhat explains the situation without 
pointing to the drivers or anything like that. We might have to want 
have a similar generic message.

http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/224/104/

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_8_Review_The_beauty_and_the_beast

"There is no doubt Fedora 8 is an excellent distribution. Redhat is a 
major contributor to Linux and you can see that in Fedora which includes 
many exciting new features. Fedora 8 is very stable, the package 
management is one of the best out there, security is tight as always and 
finally the presentation have improved to make one of the best looking 
Gnome distributions I have seen. However in the eyes of the average 
desktop user Fedora fails miserably. He will have to go hunting for 
third party repositories to get nVidia or Ati drivers installed and then 
get confused by the new codec tool. He will even have to go searching 
the web to find out why Flash fails when trying to install it in Firefox"

Rahul