Secondary architectures and marketing
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
D.Mierzejewski at icm.edu.pl
Fri Jan 9 14:56:53 UTC 2009
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:52:16AM -0700, Dialup Jon Norstog wrote:
> Matt, & list:
>
> I have Fedora 9 running on a PC and have had enough experience to find a few
> things about it that rile me. Worst and most prominent is you have to hack
> the installation in order to log on as root. You can YUM up the codecs etc. to
> play DVDs but they don't work
Huh? What exactly doesn't work? All your multimedia needs should be satisfied
by RPMFusion.
> and Fedora, Inc.
Fedora isn't an incorporated company.
> isn't about to help you fix that.
> It is short of the libs you need for Grass and Qgis GIS,
Are these proprietary binary-only apps? Which libraries are missing?
> and it hasn't worked with a source-built Qcad since about FC1.
Do you have a detailed problem description on that? Have you reported
this issue to Qcad developers?
> Other things: changes in KDE - I like the CDE desktop theme. It's gone.
Have you filed a bug report about this regression? Maybe the CDE theme
didn't have a maintainer and was thus dropped. Are you willing to maintain
it?
> I like having a different background for each screen. That's gone.
Bug report link?
> I was just getting used to the Evolution email client. That's gone.
That's a lie.
> Rant, rant.
Yeah, that was easy. What seems to be hard is doing something about it.
Why don't you try some constructive approach for a change?
Regards,
R.
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