Early thoughts on FC3

[Joel Jaeggli]

2 and 3 are something we've been over a couple times. I agree with 4 5 6 
however.

joelja

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, K.M.Zammi Kahan wrote:

> 
> Hi Pals,
> 
>             I’ve been using Redhat since release 6 and appreciate it is improved a lot along with the rest of the open source community. Currently I’m using FC test 2 and planning to upgrade to test 3 during the next weekendJ. Some of the features that I like to see in the next release of Fedora (FC3J),
> 
> 1. Integrated system configuration interface.
> 
>     Although FC has all required config tools, integrated interface needed for centralized configuration.
> 
> 2. Incorporate some multimedia tools like Xine/ Mplayer, K3B etc. By the
> time we will have more option like Vediolan’s VLC Player, Helix player
> as well.

legal ipr unecumbered codecs are the problem here.

ogg theora speex flac and shn don't get you very far when you're trying to 
access other peoples content.

> 3. Some missing plug-ins like (Flash, JRE etc). Today readers like
> acobat reader & Chm reader (xchm) etc also playing a big role.

macromedia plugins and sun jre aren't distrubuted under a gpl style 
liscsense.

> 4. Independent default art-work theme than Redhat’s default art-work
> theme.  What about eye-candy desktop for home usersJ??. If both GTK/GTK+
> and Qt programs can have same look & feel much better.
> 
> 5. Improved main menu (Better categorization and program description
> will help user to locate the required program quicker).
> 
> 6. Some stuff like PHP development tools, open source portal etc. Apache
> has more interesting projects to be considered.
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone have any interesting facts to share on FC3?
> 
>  
> 
> Rgds,
> 
> Zammi.
> 
> 
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