Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 81.245.37.26]
on October 27, 2007 04:22 PM
I think that we have to face two separate concepts.
1/ Vixta LOOKS like Vista. Why? Why not? I like it like I try to like the graphics in many distro's (and I test most of them). DE GUSTIBUS COLORIBUSQUE NON DISPUTANTUR. I like blue and green, the Ubuntu-people admire the color of diarrea, and nobody yells about it, true?
2/ Vixta comes with Fedora. I never downloaded Red Hat / Fedora project because it's so big (I only test CD-distro's), about 12 GB per month).
This was my first encounter of the thrid kind with Fedora, and at start everything went right, just as the author describes.
BUT THEN..! AHH!
My first test is always running Videolan/VLC: audio and video show or don't...many distro's come with VLC, or VLC is easily installed. Most of the time, it works as it should. Not in this case, Fedora doesn't know any VLC. Nor does it come with Audio/Video prog's. And installing them takes a long time, ending with an error-message that the rep's are not reachable, or whatever crap they invent. So no sound. No video. GFY.
2b/ Installing CrossOver is no problem. But running IE6 is something else: it crashes all the time. Not that I like IE6, but it is another standard test of mine. I'm not going to install other MS-stuff if IE6 crashes.
So What? I do like the graphics. I was scared by Fedora. I was disappointed by this distro. It COULD become a nice alternative for many people, but to reach that point, the underlying *NIX must perform with audio&video, and without crashes. Other *NIX'es do it, why not Fedora?
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Vixta: Nice concept, incomplete execution
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 81.245.37.26] on October 27, 2007 04:22 PM1/ Vixta LOOKS like Vista. Why? Why not? I like it like I try to like the graphics in many distro's (and I test most of them). DE GUSTIBUS COLORIBUSQUE NON DISPUTANTUR. I like blue and green, the Ubuntu-people admire the color of diarrea, and nobody yells about it, true?
2/ Vixta comes with Fedora. I never downloaded Red Hat / Fedora project because it's so big (I only test CD-distro's), about 12 GB per month).
This was my first encounter of the thrid kind with Fedora, and at start everything went right, just as the author describes.
BUT THEN..! AHH!
My first test is always running Videolan/VLC: audio and video show or don't...many distro's come with VLC, or VLC is easily installed. Most of the time, it works as it should. Not in this case, Fedora doesn't know any VLC. Nor does it come with Audio/Video prog's. And installing them takes a long time, ending with an error-message that the rep's are not reachable, or whatever crap they invent. So no sound. No video. GFY.
2b/ Installing CrossOver is no problem. But running IE6 is something else: it crashes all the time. Not that I like IE6, but it is another standard test of mine. I'm not going to install other MS-stuff if IE6 crashes.
So What? I do like the graphics. I was scared by Fedora. I was disappointed by this distro. It COULD become a nice alternative for many people, but to reach that point, the underlying *NIX must perform with audio&video, and without crashes. Other *NIX'es do it, why not Fedora?
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