FC2 First Impressions (Nautilus, Sound and Evolution)

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 17:59, Phil Schaffner wrote:
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> Have you tried Noa Resare's 1.5.4 RPMS?  A few glitches (just found a
> problem with a hang when trying to do calendar) but at least can now do
> e-mail without crashes.  Filed a bugzilla report (https://bugzilla.
> redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115786) on evolution problems with a
> suggestion to consider 1.5.4 them for FC2.

I didn't see the post on these. Is there a URL where I can get these
from?

> > I also miss all of the extra stuff from Fedors.us and livna.org...
> 
> Me too, but in my case it's the stuff from FreshRPMS, ATrpms, Dag, et
> al.  Have had fair luck building FC1 FreshRPMS multimedia stuff from
> SRPMS.

I'm thinking of ways I could get the most important (to me anyway)
things working. I'm talking multimedia players like MPlayer, Ogle and
Flash, various games like FooBilliard and kid's stuff like Tux Paint and
Tux Math. Of course, having apt and synaptic built against RPM 4.3 would
help too.

> > Oh, well - maybe the next test release will bear more fruit. If an
> > update comes along in the next few days that fixes some of this, maybe
> > I'll try again. Now that my data can be safely isolated from "fresh"
> > installs, it's not so bad to reload.
> 
> Lets keep testing...

I'll probably reload again today or tomorrow once things in rawhide have
had a chance to "simmer" a little more. Of note, I had my students in my
Linux class install FC2 last Friday (I teach a beginner's Linux sysadmin
class at DeVry University). I gave them the CDs and said, "Go for it."
They learned a lot, so I'm going to have them continue testing as part
of the learning experience.

Cheers,

Chris

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