Re: FC4 good new tech, bad legacy support

[Richard Kelsch <rich@xxxxxxxx>]

Les, thank you very much for the suggestion.  However, I actually think it would be a step backwards for me.  Much of what I'm doing is also "bleeding-edge" and I'd doubt some of the software that I need is even contained in the enterprise trees, at least the versions I need.

Unfortunately my "push" is probably similar in nature to the push the FC team has.  It's the same "push" most everyone else in the Fedora community has.  Seriously, by the time I'm ready to shove my PC into my car, I want it to be at as up-to-date as possible.  To some that may be a bit "fanboy" but much of what I'm doing is new.  I have the freedom to not be locked into a production environment and can experiment and tinker.  In this case the experiment failed spectacularly.

Nevertheless, thanks again for the suggestion.  I do appreciate it.

Rich

Les Mikesell wrote:

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 15:23, Richard Kelsch wrote:

  

What is my software?  It's a Perl based media manager / player, video
game server etc.  It's something I intend to put in my car
eventually.  It utilizes SDL and many other libraries.  The Audio::Mad
library is what I use to play MP3's in the software.  It all worked
magnificently in FC3.  It just sits there in FC4.
    

I think you have your solution here.  What is the push to upgrade to
FC4?   You might like Centos4.x.  It is free, not a big jump from FC3,
and should be supported a lot longer.  http://www.centos.org/