FC3 - I'm anything but dissapointed

[Jim Cornette]

Richard S. Crawford wrote:

> I'm enthralled with FC3 as well.  I did an upgrade from FC2 instead of a clean 
> install, and I haven't encountered any major issues.

FC3 is a forward looking release. The aggravations from when it was 
released and the condition that it is in post updates makes it a good 
working release.

For my laptop:
The only remaining major problem relate to switching to a virtual 
terminal or trying to launch tuxracer for a test. This locks up the 
computer. I have a radeon video card.

For the desktop:
Dual display configuration problems.

For my expermental server:
Everything seems to work fairly well and seems stable. Samba, ftp, http 
all seem to work. The computer works reliably as a desktop also. Tux 
works great, as well as other applications.
> 
> I also upgraded KDE to 3.3.2 from the default install (using yum and the 
> kde-redhat project).  I used to be a GNOME guy, but after trying KDE on FC3, 
> I'll probably never go back.  Installing my DVD player was painless, I've had 
> no printing problems and no sound problems (once I got the audio cable from 
> the CD drive hooked up to the right jack on the soundcard), and I've 
> experienced absolutely no USB problems. 

I'm still using gnome. KDE does look acceptable.

  The problems I do have are
> application specific -- gnomad2 doesn't do everything that I would like, so I 
> still hook my Zen Nomad MP3 player up to my Windows box from time to time, 
> for example.  Otherwise, no problems.

I am pretty much stuck with resorting to MS to load my Nomad also. There 
was a KDE based application for the Jukebox. I tried to compile the 
source once, but it failed to compile.
Regarding gnomad, I installed and tested it for communicating with my 
Nomad, it locked up when retrieving the files on the Jukebox. I stopped 
using it shortly thereafter.
Recently, I had the disk crash in the box and needed to replace the hard 
disk and reload the OS via the USB ports. I'm not sure if gnomad damaged 
the hard drive, corrupted the filesystem or the drive simply failed. I 
was able to recover the drive into woring order, but replaced it anyway, 
to be safer.
I wish that there was a vendor provided program to load and manage the 
jukebox through linux. Hopefully, there will be a vendor provided 
program sometime for this.

Jim
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