Good Bye FC5

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 5/11/06, Johnny <johnny_boy at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:20:44AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Karl Larsen wrote:
> > >     I upgraded to FC5 because it was claimed that it is
> > > better. But some of my best "legacy" software in X-windows looks
> > > diffirent and does not work well.
> >
> > Without mentioning any details (what software?  what problems?),
> > no-one can/will fix it.
>
> I can't speak for Karl, but I've also noticed quite a few regressions
> in FC5.  In the past I've always thought that on balance, each release
> of Fedora was better than the last, even if there are a few changes
> that I wasn't fond of.  FC5 is different.
>
>     - Lack of an "install everything" option requires maintaining a
>       list of all the stuff that has to be installed after completing
>       the initial installation, so that if I want to do another
>       install, or an install of FC6 I'll be able do do so quickly.
>
>     - The xorg radeon driver no longer works with two display heads.
>       Resolving this requires installing the evil kernel-tainting
>       proprietary ATI driver.
>
>     - The epiphany web broser requires dbus, and so is no longer a
>       network app, but one that can only be run from the local
>       console.
>
>     - The pwc (Phillips Web Camera) driver loads, but the output of
>       the Logitec web camera can't be displayed in either TVtime or
>       xawtv.
>
>     - gnome-screensaver is lame (too few hacks, unconfigurable) and
>       buggy (locks the screen at inappropriate times).
>
>     - The nautilus button-3 menu doesn't offer a terminal.  The
>       nautilus-open-terminal package adds one, but it's in the middle
>       of the menu where it's less convenient, and it always opens the
>       terminal on display :0.0, even when used from another display.
>

Sounds like you should give KDE a try.

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