Anyone tried FC3-test1?

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> >
> >>Net Llama! wrote:
> >>
> >>>What kind of issues are you having with FC2?  I've not tried FC3-test1.
> >>
> >>- CD burning is largely broken. I can burn regular files but there is no
> >>option to verify after the burn. I can't burn isos (via the gui anyway,
> >>and the command for cdrecord that's supposed to work doesn't). Can't
> >>copy CDs either.
> >
> >
> > I know for a fact that all of that works for me, cause i've done all of
> > those tasks on FC2.  Which tools are you using?
>
> $ rpm -q nautilus-cd-burner
> nautilus-cd-burner-2.6.0-2
>
> I'm trying to do everything by the "standard out of the box" Fedora way.
> This, of course, means Gnome. I used KDE for a long time and really like
> its features but the sluggishness just became unbearable after a while.
>
> I'm doing this so I can recommend Fedora more-or-less as-is. And that
> means I need to be well familiar with it in that way. Besides I really
> like the new Gnome. And I want to run a box that is as "stock" as
> possible to ease later upgrades and some of the chaotic variability that
> creeps in as I customize more and more.
>
> But as you stated, much of my problems are Gnome related. Or perhaps
> FC2's implementation of Gnome.

Yea, i think this is all gnome breakage of some sort.  cdrecord works just
fine.

> >>- And I'm ignoring for now, the fatal partitioning bug and the fact that
> >>the amd_64 version wouldn't install with more than 256M of memory (easy
> >>workaround once known by adding mem=256M to the boot line, but very
> >>annoying to get all the way through setup 3 times only to crash at the
> >>very end).
> >
> >
> > I wish i had an amd64 cpu to test this on  ;)
>
> It screams. And really not so expensive compared to any other moderately
> up-to-date system. I've also learned that the amd_64 is actually far
> less power hungry and hot-running than a comparable P4. So it is much
> easier to build a quiet system (fewer, slower fans). Quiet is good. Me
> want quiet.

Well, i just purchased (3 months ago) a new box with an Athlon XP 2800, so
i don't quite have a budget for a new one, and the amd64 CPUs are still
more expensive than the athlon XPs.

> > Yea, that's understandable.  I think alot of those issues might be
> > reesolved by not using Gnome, but granted you shouldn't have to resort to
> > that.
>
> Yes. And I definitely can't recommend switching desktops to a newbie. My
> operating theory is that things ought to work out of the box pretty much
> as expected and only when you're ready to do something different then
> should you expect have to do some work to make it happen.

Yea, and that's logical.  On the other hand, Fedora ships with more than
just Gnome as a WM.  Have you tried KDE or XFCE?


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