ons, 22.12.2004 kl. 01.55 skrev joelbryan: > Now christmas is coming, and Fedora Project make it this far, I think > it's time for us to thank the developers, just for the holiday to make > it memorable. > > In any version released in Fedora core, what packages or features you > be thankful of? Create your own list, and tell how you feel thankful > for it. > > This is my list. > > 1. The Bluecurve desktop, the developers behind the artworks and > icons, personally I like it very much, it not only bring much > familiarity, ease of use, and comfortability, it also brings a "breath > of life and fresh air" in all the desktop races, giving hope in > familiarization, standardization, and on using the desktop more > easily. To the developers, thank you for doing so. > Yup! > 2. The Anaconda Installer, because it's the most easiest Linux > installation I've ever seen, aside from it's easy to install linux > with it, it has a welcoming atmosphere, and the package selection > where as easy as "add/remove programs" in windows, and making it > available it the desktop is an innovation to Linux. To the developer, > here is my thanks to you. > Agreed > 3. The up2date applet. Not only this is omnipresent in the desktop, It > is also makes easier to see when your system is behind the latest > packages, because up2date automatically display in icons the status of > your system, in an animated applet. So the next time you see a message > "Your system is fully updated", it would bring a smile in your face. > Thanks for this. > NOOO!!! The idea is good, but the implementation sucks... Mesa wantses a yum aplet! And damn animation, DIE!!! long live yum! it is getting better and better all the time, now we only need a snappy gui for it, and an aplet to go with it... > 4. Inclusion of Rythmbox, Evolution 2 and Firefox. I'm thankful for > inclusion of Rythmbox, because it makes me organized my audio CD's, > more like iTunes does, and the new Evolution is easier to use and > Firefox browser that replaced the heavy mozilla browser. Hopefully we > see more packages like Calendars, Paint applications, and cool games. > But thanks for you guys who makes the Fedora complete (yet for now). > Agreed. I was just about to mention rythmbox and firefox. evolution 2 i haven't tried yet, but if it is anything close to evo 1, it got to be nice :) As for rythmbox, a working, built-in tag editor would be nice. Not that there is anything wrong with easytag... > Of course, Fedora isn't yet that complete, there's a lot of room for > improvement, and innovations. This where just based on my personal > opinion, and my thanks to the developers that I feel the need to be > grateful of, using all of this. Anyways, I'm grateful, and thanks for > all of your effort, thank you very much. Yup. Now we are just waiting for the extras to arrive, and it seems like there might even be a polish-up on the rpm building tools as well. Hooray for fedora and its developers!!