[CS-FSLUG] Fedora core 1

[David McGlone]

On Monday 19 April 2004 12:07 am, N. Thompson wrote:
> I've been using Fedora core 1 for a few hours and I have no major
> complaints so far, I had some fun manually configuring the mount points so
> they could be mounted by ordinary users and I even added my usb disk to
> /etc/fstab without any trouble. I've also managed to configure KDE more or
> less to my liking.
>
> I've got my printers working, I've got KDE configured to my liking, I've
> got no problem with the current GTK theme and if it does become a problem I
> could probably figure out how to change it. I've got apt installed and it
> worked right away, I've also got mplayer, xine and I'm going to be working
> on getting KMplayer from source unless there does turn out to be an RPM for
> it.
>
> Overall I'm fairly happy with Fedora, I've found its missing a few KDE
> applications and the menu has left them out or put them in the wrong
> submenu but I've reorganised it to my liking.
>
> The only problem I'm having now is getting sound to work, aside from that
> everything else is fine, perhaps one of the other Fedora Core users would
> have some idea of when Fedora Core 2 will be released and what mediums of
> updating will be available. I'd also appreciate any tips on how to get my
> sound working without using the driver supplied on my mainboard CD, those
> default to having the sound turned all the way down and I don't think FC
> has alsamixer (KMix won't realize the volume is off usually) unless I can
> get it through apt.

Nathan, I hope FC works out for you. I know how hard you been having it, 
trying to find the right distro.

So far i've been running it for 5 days and I am liking it. I just miss 
mandrakes right click menu, but I can live without it.

David M.