Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 14, 2005 05:58 PM
I've had no problems with FC4 (64-bit version on an Athlon 64 desktop) myself, though I did just add in the Livna respository to the yum setup to pick up some of those aforementioned multimedia bits'n'pieces (fortunately, the Livna folks provide an <a href="http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html" title="livna.org">RPM </a livna.org> that you install and it updates your yum setup - no editing of yum.conf by hand or anything).
Strangely enough, FC4 actually came through for me with an XviD video I was trying to play - despite installing the codec in Win XP, WMP and Real Player refused to recognise the format and Quicktime did actually play it, but the audio was full of white noise! Guess which piece of software played it perfectly - yep, mplayer in FC4 no less...
I would still say that FC4 starts up too many services that 99% of desktop users would not require, plus the removal of some significant packages from even the DVD media (yes, they're in Extras, but you have to remember to download them separately) are a bit of a downer, but I still think FC4's pretty good.
I would like to see more work done on Anaconda myself - it seems to offer not much more than, say, Red Hat 8.0's Anaconda did. The Disk Druid stuff needs to be made a lot more friendly (any newbie who went into the "manually set up partitions" section of DD would be absolutely stuck on what to do), updates should be applied as part of the initial install (OK, they can opt out from that if there's no net connection or they're on dial-up) and not left to be optionally done by the end-user on the desktop if they even bother taking notice of update icon.
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I found FC4 was fine...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 14, 2005 05:58 PMStrangely enough, FC4 actually came through for me with an XviD video I was trying to play - despite installing the codec in Win XP, WMP and Real Player refused to recognise the format and Quicktime did actually play it, but the audio was full of white noise! Guess which piece of software played it perfectly - yep, mplayer in FC4 no less...
I would still say that FC4 starts up too many services that 99% of desktop users would not require, plus the removal of some significant packages from even the DVD media (yes, they're in Extras, but you have to remember to download them separately) are a bit of a downer, but I still think FC4's pretty good.
I would like to see more work done on Anaconda myself - it seems to offer not much more than, say, Red Hat 8.0's Anaconda did. The Disk Druid stuff needs to be made a lot more friendly (any newbie who went into the "manually set up partitions" section of DD would be absolutely stuck on what to do), updates should be applied as part of the initial install (OK, they can opt out from that if there's no net connection or they're on dial-up) and not left to be optionally done by the end-user on the desktop if they even bother taking notice of update icon.
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