Comment Re:Fedora, public sentiment, and actual impression (Score 1) 369
> I have been quite impressed with Fedora and with yum for updates.
> I just wish now that *someone* would release a version of fedora core that includes support for mp3 and various popular video formats so that it would make a usable desktop for most people out of the box. What's to stop someone from releasing ISOs of feature-overloaded-fedora that would include most of the stuff that the repositories are currently building to "fix" fedora?
Give these two bits of information, you may want to look at www.freshrpms.net . It has the "missing" packages to enable the stuff you want, built specifically for the current version of RH / Fedora, and it is all accessible via yum. I have been quite happy with it.
> I just wish now that *someone* would release a version of fedora core that includes support for mp3 and various popular video formats so that it would make a usable desktop for most people out of the box. What's to stop someone from releasing ISOs of feature-overloaded-fedora that would include most of the stuff that the repositories are currently building to "fix" fedora?
Give these two bits of information, you may want to look at www.freshrpms.net . It has the "missing" packages to enable the stuff you want, built specifically for the current version of RH / Fedora, and it is all accessible via yum. I have been quite happy with it.
