FC3 - I'm anything but dissapointed

[Michael A. Peters]

On 01/13/2005 06:50:13 PM, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 18:40, Roger Sowerby wrote:
> > Just have to say that I'm quite pleased with FC3
> > *snip*
> 
> I'm enthralled with FC3 as well.
> *snip*
> The problems I do have are
> application specific -- gnomad2 doesn't do everything that I would
> like, so I
> still hook my Zen Nomad MP3 player up to my Windows box from time to
> time,
> for example.  Otherwise, no problems.

I'm also very happy with fc3 - the only tweaking I've really done is to  
update the gstreamer and gstreamer-plugins and totem - and add some  
additional gstreamer plugins. Totem now (as of the 0.100 release) plays  
my DVD's very well (I haven't tried a TV series that needs menus yet  
though)

Last time I was so incredibly impressed with a particular distro was  
probably Linux PPC 1999.

Upcoming fc4 is thus very exciting because all I will likely need to do  
is add the patent problem gstreamer plugins - and multimedia things  
will just work.

The only thing that I would consider not working is that my iPod mini  
is not *always* detected when plugged in (replugging triggers it  
though) and displays the "do not disconnect" message even when not  
mounted, though disconnecting it is fine. I suspect *something* is  
polling it causing it to think it is mounted. But that's just a minor  
detail. (this happens btw even with the hal daemon killed, so it's not  
hal's fault)