fedora 9 pre release

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Funny, my browser thinks <200804181025.49438.lostson at lostsonsvault.org> 
> is the first mail in the thread. It isn't even yours! 

Of course it isn't. I wouldn't be asking and answering at the same time. 
  Mine was a reply as I have said before.

The first post
> from you was <4808CFD2.1050805 at fedoraproject.org> which also contains no 
> technical detail, just a link to a list of things which someone (again 
> not you) thinks could be improved and a suggestion ("why do we need this 
> in the default install?") that it not be run by default.

Follow the entire thread for more details.

> Taking out something because it isn't perfect is like shooting your 
> seeing eye dog because he has a sore paw. 

Doesn't compare since as detailed in the thread, the tool causes more 
problems than it solves.

The administration tool (in alpha) did
> not seem to want to marked the default card, and after each boot used 
> whatever looks like a sound card on an HDTV Wonder. Probably because the 
> modprobe doesn't seem to set card numbers, or ???

Did you file a bug report?

> When I finish evaluating ubuntu if FC9 final is out I'll try the process 
> again.

Sure. Note that the distribution doesn't ship a separate sound card 
configuration utility and have settled on pulse audio utilities 
originally shipped in Fedora 8.

Fedora has for a long time steadily moved away from distribution 
specific tools towards more cross distribution upstream projects that 
integrate with the desktop environment. This includes dropping of 
system-config-log (DE's grow their own log tools), system-config-mouse 
(legacy mouse configuration), deprecation of Kudzu (replacing it with 
HAL) and for Fedora 9, dropping system-config-soundcard (replaced by 
pulseaudio tools and other technologies like hotplug).

Rahul