Re: Three Observations

[Richard England <rlengland@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>            Three Things.
>
> 1. I have been a member of this busy Fedora list for 2 weeks and now I 
> have moved lock stock and barrel from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6. 
> I had planned to move to Fedora 7 but this list talked me out of doing 
> that. And I have learned some really interesting things. I plan to 
> stay and add what I can to the soup.
Good
> 2. I got some really bad advice from this group. I was told to use the 
> Firefox shipped by FD6 and yum Thunderbird from Fedora. These are 
> supposed to be better somehow.This is not the case. They are the 
> easiest to get. But I stuck to my old habits and went to the Mozilla 
> web page first thing after getting this working and D/L the Version 
> 2.0.4 of Firefox and Thunderbird. I have no problem with tar and now 
> both versions are running in good shape and they have the history from 
> Fedora Core 4 on them.It is very easy, just mount the FC4 on this 
> computer and replace the new .thunderbird/ and .mozilla/  with the old 
> ones from FC4. This takes 5 minutes.
I've been watching that thread and I saw no "bad" information.  I am 
using the both FireFox and Thunderbird from Fedora from the FC6 release 
and I have no issues. What was the nature of the information you deem "bad".

> 3. The Alsa sound Mixer is not a finished product. It is nice as it's 
> done by Gnome but it should be made so a user can turn it on and go 
> about changing it to what they want and that should become the default 
> settings. I use the sound card for sound and also as a Digital Signal 
> Processor (DSP) engine. This lets me make some really fast written 
> data transfer using gMFSK. Skype is also a fun way to talk over the 
> Internet and it uses both an earphone and a Mike. These last to items 
> are NOT Fedora products but they are made to run on Linux.
Rather than proclaim it not a finished product, summarize the 
changes/problems/issues in Alsa sound Mixer, compare them with the F7 
version then at least submit  a bugzilla report.  With out looking at 
the F7 version, you can't know what has already been "corrected". 

As has been said repeatedly, making observations on this list gives no 
assurance that any one will address the issues you see.