Star Fedora 7 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 31st May 2007 17:46 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Fedora Core Fedora 7 has been released. The release features GNOME 2.18, KDE 3.5.6, fast user switching, hotplugging of display devices, a new theme, kvm, the exprimental Nouveau driver, and much more. Read the release notes, and download or view screenshots.
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h3rman
Member since:
2006-08-09

To avoid dependency hell.
Using third party repositories is all right, but I've had conflicting packages/dependencies when I had both Livna and Freshrpms enabled, and it's a bit of a pain to fix it then.

So these days I'm more on the conservative side when it comes to third party repos.

But everybody is free to find that out for her/himself, of course. ;)

What's more, you really don't *need* both for that mp3 and video dvd stuff. One will do.

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buff Member since:
2005-11-12

I added Livna repo and it was a breeze to install mp3, divx, and mplayer. yum install mplayer mplayer-fonts mplayer-gui. I installed the RPM for realaudio off of real.com and Flash 9 from Adobe's site. Loaded up win32codecs and I can play Windows media, mpegs, real audio, mp3, and Flash video. I have a flash drive where I keep all my multimedia binaries and I just reinstall them when a new Fedora release comes out. Add Microsoft's core web fonts RPM and Firefox looks great.

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