[NTLUG:Discuss] any feed back on RH 8.0 yet

[Kelledin]

On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:13 pm, Rev. wRy wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 15:54, Chuck Graf wrote:
> > Maybe a clean install would have been better.  But RH 8.0
> > arrives without any functional multimedia programs, so I had
> > to install Xine, and Noatun, and (I think) Xmms.
>
 <snip>
> I thought the mp3 issue was that the codec
> wasn't free (as in speech) and RH was trying to avoid legal
> issues by not including the codec in their distro.  That being
> said, it's simple to visit the xmms home page and download
> their rpm.

You're right on that count.  Some mp3 format licensing ambiguity 
emerged, the Ogg developers harped on it, some people got into a 
panic about the "free-speech"-ness of the mp3 format.  AFAIK 
that's since been resolved, and mp3 is accepted as a free-speech 
format.

> >   Xine has never worked reliably since, and Noatun is dead,
> > though I have not worked on it much.  All in all, if you are
> > planning on using the box for multimedia, get Mandrake.
>
> I'd be a little scared of putting production boxes on Mandrake
> anything right now.

Ditto here...

> > Oh, yea, and the new Package Manager is useless.

IIRC RH 8.0 comes with rpm-4.1.  So far it's touted as the latest 
"stable" release of RPM, but as far as I'm concerned, rpm-4.1 
isn't near production ready.  There are a lot of pending bug 
reports of rpm-4.1 corrupting its own package database, which 
IMO is about the worst thing a package manager can do to itself.

For now, I'm sticking with 4.0.4.

-- 
Kelledin
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