Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 00:17:59 UTC 2007


Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:21:00PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>> And how does that work out for you when you keep your multimedia files
>>> on exteral USB drives for portability among linux/mac/windows boxes?
>> I guess it depends on the file system. If it is a FAT file system,
>> then you are probably stuck with something like the present system.
>> If it is a system that supports extended file attributes, then you
>> only need to update the attributes for new/changed files. Now, if
>> the idea turns out to be a practical one, then hopefully it will
>> also be supported on the MAC. Two out of three aren't bad...
> 
> This is exactly what Apple *used* to do.

Until someone realized that you might use the same file with more than 
one application?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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