Other annoyances [was Re: s-c-p: stupid app or PolicyKit annoyance?]

[Kam Leo]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Tom Horsley<tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:05:40 -0800
> Kam Leo wrote:
>
>> F11 is full of new annoyances. Have you checked the firewall settings
>> since you installed F11?
>
> Among the things in my checklist for new installs is completely
> disabling the firewalls to start with (I am behind another firewall
> with no open ports, so not a security problem), then after I have
> everything mostly normal, copying the hand crafted firewall rules
> from my previous install, so I never actually see the default rules :-).
>
>> 1. If you change SELinux to permissive mode
>
> I find disabled mode works much better :-).
>
>> 2. Pulseaudio no longer works in the F11 client under Vmware.
>
> Pulse screws up so many different ways, that "yum erase pulseaudio"
> is still one of my first post-install tweaks, along with disabling
> NetworkManager and enabling network.

Unfortunately for me pulseaudio has too many dependencies. Removing it
would take out 800+ packages. I guess I'll have to do a new custom
install, de-select pulseaudio, and see what anaconda can do.