Linked by Robert Trembath on Wed 18th Feb 2004 01:29 UTC
Couldn't stop myself from trying the new Fedora 2-test1 release, even if it is an alpha! The 2.6 kernel, KDE 3.2 and Gnome 2.5 all in the same release was just to much candy to turn away from; too bad it's more sour rather than sweet at this (beta) point than I would have expected.
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>1) Get rid of Up-to-date/Yum and use something like
>Apt/Synaptic. Out of the distros I've used, apt/synaptic
>has been the most reliable for an RPM-based distro. The
>first thing many of us who use Fedora/Red Hat do is go to
>freshrpms.net, download apt & synaptic and use it to tune
>our distro the way we want. Up-to-date freezes consistantly
>and causes me to rerun it many times to get updates, even >
>in Core 1.
Very much agreed. yum/up2date is annoying. I'd advocate RedCarpet.
>2)Let's start including a good media player like xine or
mplayer.
Patent issues, atleast in the US, and RedHat is based there.
>3)Java with browser plugin preconfigured would be great.
Fedora is an OpenSource distro, built on OpenSource components
the Java runtime doesn't fit into that, while I'd also like to see it, it won't happen.
>4)The common browser plugins like flash, java and >mplayer/xine for media.
See 2 and 3.
>5)Gimp 1.3 DE
Beats me why it isn't included.. its beta though.
>6)MySQL 4 and MySQL CC
Horrible license issues.(it's not the MySQL issues, it's
other packages that links with mysql libraries. Search the fedora-devel list.. ) Bah, people should use PostgreSQL anyway, they don't know what they're missing
>7)Native ATI and Nvidia drivers for X preconfigured.
See 3.