2009/1/15 Anne Wilson <annew@xxxxxxx>: > On Thursday 15 January 2009 01:22:53 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Rather then "someone thinking they know better than you do how you >> should use your computer", I think it is the case that most people >> are not going to need it, so it is not on the DVD. If you need it, >> you can use yum to install it. I have not needed it on any of my >> machines. >> >> I keep hearing complaints like this from people that the defaults do >> not work for, or that think the DVD should contain some other >> programs, and not some of the ones that it does. While the balance >> may not be perfect, I think it does a fairly good job of providing a >> base install for most people. The default package choices don't >> provide me with exactly what I want, but my preferences are a bit >> different then the "average user". I don't expect the distribution >> to match my needs "out of the box". I do expect to be able to >> customise it for my needs. So far, Fedora takes the least amount of >> customising. > > I think the big, insoluble problem here is that if you don't have a working > display at all it can't possibly ask you whether you want to install s-c-d to > fix it. It's a catch22. If you merely want to tweak a working one that's > different, and there may be some way of reminding you that it's available. Well in my case I didn't have any working display at all. I couldn't even go into any of the virtual terminals. Had to reboot with Ctrl+Alt+Del every time I tried to start X. However installing the binary drivers solved all that. Things would have been simpler for me if I had an internet connection of course. :) > > Anne > -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
