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mtxblau - Dec 4, 2003

		mtxblau	Dec 4, 2003
		To get to the point, has anyone tried it yet? For the uninitiated, it is the latest version of Redhat. Edit: Before it gets out of hand, it's free/open source version that has Red Hat Engineers working on it, but not supported by Red Hat in any way. An off-shoot project. And it's free. I'm downloading it now, to try on my laptop. RH 9 works on this machine (according to what I've read) however my RH 9 CDs crapped out, and the download for Fedora is going much faster (on torrent, 2k vs 131kb). I wonder if the driver RPMs made for redhat work on this...

		Curtis	Dec 4, 2003
		I've not tried it, but it gets the thumbs up from ARS Technica.

		it290	Dec 5, 2003
		I haven't tried it myself, but I used Red Hat versions 5 through 8, and grew to hate them more and more over the years. Gentoo is where its at, and if that's not possible, Debian.

		mtxblau	Dec 6, 2003
		Hate them? Why? I've used Mandrake, SuSe, and Redhat, and of the three I like it the best. Granted, I haven't used Gentoo yet, but RH seems to be the most reliable. In any event, the FP Core 1 isn't very good - yet. It's pretty buggy, for right now. It's a project in the making, with a noble ideal, but for mission critical stuff, it's not where it's at yet.

		antime	Dec 6, 2003
		The project states explicitly that it's intended for hobbyists and people who like to tinker and stay on the beeding edge of things. If you have a "mission-critical" setup Fedora is never going to be the right choice.

		mtxblau	Dec 6, 2003
		Oh I know that. Mission critical wasn't the right term. I guess functional would've been (much) better. It had difficulty in doing just about everything, unfortunately.

		it290	Dec 6, 2003
		Hate them? Why? I've used Mandrake, SuSe, and Redhat, and of the three I like it the best. Granted, I haven't used Gentoo yet, but RH seems to be the most reliable. Just because I think RPM sucks and RPM dependencies really suck. Debian and Gentoo have much more sensible and better package managment systems.

		mtxblau	Dec 6, 2003
		Ok, set up, running (almost) flawlessly - had to turn off USB (design fault, not Redhat's, just need to recomile some stuff) and I don't know if PCMCIA works, since I don't need it. Now, any ideas for a decent mp3 player? Looks like XMMS doesn't do that anymore...

		antime	Dec 6, 2003
		Try the XMMS binaries from Freshrpms.net... or download the sources and build them yourself. RedHat haven't included MP3 support in their distros for a while now due to patent resons.

		it290	Dec 6, 2003
		Yeah, the 'no mp3 support' in XMMS is just a RedHat thing. I use xmms mainly, but Rhythmbox is a nice alternative if you're running GNOME and want an iTunes-alike type program. Also AFAIK you don't need to recompile all of XMMS, you can just compile the MP3 plugin (or get a prebuilt one) and install that seperately.

		mtxblau	Dec 6, 2003
		Thanks for the heads up. I got the new(er) xmms from xmms.org and it works fine now. On the last three laptops I've installed Linux on, I never had sound (Crystal Audio is impossible to get working) so I hadn't realized there was no mp3 support up until now. What a pain.