Three Observations

[Karl Larsen]

Richard England wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>            Three Things.
>>
>> 1. I have been a member of this busy Fedora list for 2 weeks and now 
>> I have moved lock stock and barrel from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 
>> 6. I had planned to move to Fedora 7 but this list talked me out of 
>> doing that. And I have learned some really interesting things. I plan 
>> to stay and add what I can to the soup.
>>
> Good
>> 2. I got some really bad advice from this group. I was told to use 
>> the Firefox shipped by FD6 and yum Thunderbird from Fedora. These are 
>> supposed to be better somehow.This is not the case. They are the 
>> easiest to get. But I stuck to my old habits and went to the Mozilla 
>> web page first thing after getting this working and D/L the Version 
>> 2.0.4 of Firefox and Thunderbird. I have no problem with tar and now 
>> both versions are running in good shape and they have the history 
>> from Fedora Core 4 on them.It is very easy, just mount the FC4 on 
>> this computer and replace the new .thunderbird/ and .mozilla/  with 
>> the old ones from FC4. This takes 5 minutes.
> I've been watching that thread and I saw no "bad" information.  I am 
> using the both FireFox and Thunderbird from Fedora from the FC6 
> release and I have no issues. What was the nature of the information 
> you deem "bad".
    The yum versions are not the latest and they do not seem to accept 
the imported data from my FC4 system as well as the version 2 are doing.
>
>>
>> 3. The Alsa sound Mixer is not a finished product. It is nice as it's 
>> done by Gnome but it should be made so a user can turn it on and go 
>> about changing it to what they want and that should become the 
>> default settings. I use the sound card for sound and also as a 
>> Digital Signal Processor (DSP) engine. This lets me make some really 
>> fast written data transfer using gMFSK. Skype is also a fun way to 
>> talk over the Internet and it uses both an earphone and a Mike. These 
>> last to items are NOT Fedora products but they are made to run on Linux.
>>
> Rather than proclaim it not a finished product, summarize the 
> changes/problems/issues in Alsa sound Mixer, compare them with the F7 
> version then at least submit  a bugzilla report.  With out looking at 
> the F7 version, you can't know what has already been "corrected".
    I did run F7 for several days and the only alsa sound Mixer I could 
find was one running in a terminal. Hard to use.


> As has been said repeatedly, making observations on this list gives no 
> assurance that any one will address the issues you see.
>
    Well I can't be sure this bug has not been reported 45 times. Right 
now I'm compiling the FFTW libraries from a tar ball and just looked. It 
did compile on FC6!


73 Karl