[winblowz]

I installed fedora core 1 a few days ago while I was waiting for mandrake 10 to arrive... its awful... I think redhat 9 is better. no joke. Installing things is a pain in the ***, and it doesnt come w/ python. Software banks are not very big for fc1 either. I must say that hardware support is quite good though. That was the nicest thing about it.

the xmms it comes w/ doesnt have any good codecs... it play .ogg or whatever. I can dl one, but thats besides the point. I couldnt get my yahoo account to work in the messaging client.

and probably most importanty, I couldnt update. The updater froze very time i tried to update! No joke!

Overall I think that the os is pretty ****ty to other modern distributions. Even compared to older distros.

Has anyone else used FC1? What do you think?
thanks (for reply and listening to my rant)
Al

[kostas]

i used it before but i got rid of it. i agree with xmms. i don't like it much. i use zinf.

and the updater has always been problematic for me even when i had RedHat. my new SuSE 9.1 Pro has no problems so far except some minor details which are my fault.

[winblowz]

I cant play any mp3 or .mpg or .vid or .mov or .avi

or anything good

only .ogg

Is it easy to make those work in xmms, or should I try installing Zinf? Does Zinf work in Fedora Core 1?
thanks again for everything

Al

[kostas]

because of licensing issues, the mp3 encoder is not automatically included with xmms when you install it. i don't remember the URL but do a search and you'll find it.

you can download zinf at www.zinf.org. it was very easy to install.

[winblowz]

thanks for the reply! Which version should I download?

[shan]

fc2!!! hahaha, i haven't had any problems with it. but if your out of the fedora market, i'd probably use slackware or debian or suse....i disagree with mandrake...i've tried installing it a couple times and everything sucks....the install scripts suck....and it just made me mad...ahh o hellwell....have you tried fc2? or just fc1?

[winblowz]

LOL no, I just tried fc1. What problems have you had with Mandrake exactly? Is there anything I should look out for?

thanks


Al

[shan]

hahah, where do i start....well i tried installing on my laptop, first it would only let me use 800*600 reso :eek: it didn't recognize the nic, the performance isn't that great....and installing some rpm's can be an all out nightmare (yes even worse than rh or fc)

then i guess i just got so mad at it i didn't take time to look at anything and just re-installed fc2. not really big problems, but with rh & fc i've not had to many problems...

the only thing that's making me mad right now is the mp3 licensing so no gnu/gpl apps (such as xmms) come with mp3 support, but can be downloaded quickly...

[winblowz]

LOL.... well, I hope its not too bad... its taking over two weeks to arrive... lmao
yeah, the licenses are a pain.

I downloaded DivX and some other programs for FC1, and when I tried to open them with file roller, I got an error (this ONLY happens with tar.tar files)

do you know if mandrake 10 comes with an easy installer that I can dual boot w/?

Does it use grub? (i want to dual boot 2k and mandrake10)

thanks Shan

Al