On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 10:32 -0400, Paul A Houle wrote: > I've been quiet on this list lately but I thought I'd share my impressions > of FC5. > > It's really great. It's clear that many of the concerns that people have > had on this list have been listened to. There are a lot of details I could > complaint about, but FC5 has raised the bar again for what people can > expect from a desktop OS. > > I like the "Add/Remove Software" feature and pup... Both of these really > work in FC5, and make managing software so easy, that it embarasses > Windows XP and Mac OS X. > > I'm not sure where Core ends and Extras start, but there are some games > that are actually fun under the "Games" menu now. (ex. Fish > Fillets, Neverball) > > My one substantiative problem is the sorry state of SELinux > documentation. There is a lot of stuff here: > > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/docs.cfm > > but it's the kind of stuff you find in a conference proceedings, not the > kind of stuff that you need to get work done. Thats the wrong place to look > It's pretty clear to me that > I need to understand SELinux to do my day-to-day sysadmin duties and even > for some of my development, and it's not clear how to get that > understanding. That said, I'm pretty > excited about learning SELinux. Here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux. Tells us what sort of questions is unanswered and we will fix them. > > I'm still having horrible trouble ripping CD's. I haven't had a single > Linux 2.6 system that rips CDs reliably, so I end up ripping CDs on > Windows and Mac. On my Athlon 64 machine at home with a Plextor drive, I > find that the OS loses contact with the drive as soon as the first error > happens... And errors happen all the time when I rip CD's. The only way I > can get the drive back is to reboot. I'd think it was a fluke, but my IBM > laptop has trouble ripping CD's (hacked system that I've compiled > mainstream kernels for) and so does my indestructable P3 box that runs RHEL 4 Does it work better as root user? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179862 Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
