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On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 14:08 -0700, James Sissel wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">But to be quite frank, the only thing I have found lacking in an properly configured/setup Fedora Core is midi support. And maybe I just didn't give it much attention (had no real need for it)</FONT><BR>
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I gave Fedora Core 5 (4.92) a try a few weeks ago. As far as I could tell, it was nothing more than a Gnome desktop with some themes. IMO, the heart of a Linux distro is the package manager and I could scarcely believe what Fedora has passing as a package manager/update system these days. But maybe the GUI hid the underlying features from me. How are you supposed to get updates AND resolved dependency conflicts at the same time? Is there no interface for this? It seems like, if you going to have to be installing some 20-odd third-party RPM's to get decent codec and Java support, you're going to have to have the ability to resolve conflicts somehow.<BR>
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Also, the installer was amazingly simple ... as in, having little to no options for anything. But again, maybe I missed an "advanced" mode?<BR>
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Jason D. Clinton <<A HREF="mailto:me@jasonclinton.com">me@jasonclinton.com</A>>
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