The GPG-KEY import issue should be placed in here as well.

dfsh... -Do you suppose the XMMS site you show would work on WS 3? I've tried RH 8, RH 9, WS 2.1 and now WS 3 and none of them will play a CD. Sound board is OK, I even reloaded XP to see if the board was good and it was. Since hardware works under XP, I have to believe it is the software, or lack thereof. I DL an XMMS rpm last evening, but that didn't do it either. Any suggestions?

Nevermind, i fix it.

For those unaware, the reasons this is a good idea include:
-- no issues having the nVIDIA driver coexist with Mesa-libGL
-- startup scripts to verify the module exists before attempting to run X using the module
-- handy script to enable / disable the nVIDIA module without editing XF86Config by hand

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/R...n.2.1.i386.rpm
the link to the mp3 support for fedora doesn't work, can we get a new link to it??

The livna.org repo is offline for the timebeing, there was a server failure. It will return when possible, and they are reportedly looking for mirrors to help.

ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Fedor.../rpm.livna.org

xmms-mp3-1.2.8-0.lvn.2.1.i386.rpm
xmms-mp3-1.2.10-0.lvn.1.1.i386.rpm

Looks like this ftp is the only mirror (this information was taken from following forum post), here is an example of how to use it: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...&threadid=1370

thanks alot! Good info.

Here's some really good info on installing flash, Java, and Real Player

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t=Fedora+Flash

I didn't see anything about the 3com nic issue! Am I overlooking it?

A lot of users are having problems installing UT2004 in Fedora. My post at the bottom of

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=182057

explains an easy way that I have found to do so. It works very well.

its too bad red hat did away with the desktop version. their last good distro was 7.3, had most of the muti-media stuff too. wish red hat would come out with a true desktop version , and do like suse, charge for it. be better than the fedora thing if you ask me

I strongly disagree with that assumption. The Fedora community's involvement has been making constant improvement to Fedora possible. The bugzilla is very active, and the additional community rpm packagers and repositories are growing the available software that can be installed in Fedora painlessly. RH never had a more stable and bugfree distribution prior to merging with the Fedora project, but the distribution was hogtied and constrained, whereas now there are a few more bugs showing up.. but they are fixed very quickly. I consider that higher quality.

As for multimedia, it is all at rpm.livna.org so in the distro 'proper' or not it is all there and ready for use.

lord morgal

thanks for the insight, great personal observation on fedora. well, i might just install it in a couple of days when i get my processor, and see whats going on with it. have suse 9.1 on one of my rigs, and its working fairly good. curiosity has got me, and will give it another try. later

If you do (or anyone else reading decides to take a look) poke around FedoraFAQ.org, FedoraForum.org, and FedoraNEWS.org for a little while beforehand. The helpful docs there will make the install and configuring the alternate software repos much simpler.

And although I did just evangelize a touch I do recognize Fedora isn't for everyone.. my LUG has just decided we will be pimping Suse at our free install session this college quarter (called Free Your Machine), and I'm not too sad about that decision. ;-) Last time we went with Mandrake 9.2 and I was sad about that one! Use what works best.

One of Fedora's major selling points is the Gnome default desktop and all gtk based configuration tools. The overall polish of the desktop environment is quite good for both Gnome and KDE, in fact you can switch back and forth and a casual observer wouldn't know you did (mostly from the bluecurve theme).
FC3t2 supports (with some minor tweakage) the XComposite extension for Xorg, and although it is still buggy and needs alot of work for desktop integration it does produce beautiful effects... so the FC3 release will bring some really stunning changes including Gnome 2.8 and xfce4. Fedora is being compiled with optimizations for i686 as well so the gap narrows between Gentoo performance and binary distros.
(here is my desktop showing off some translucent windows)

http://www.andrewfarris.com/images/g...-04_173823.jpg

btw I love your sig.. but another option to buying a distro package is directly supporting projects you see needing help, or those guys who are making the 'big' changes in Linux.

try this also www.linuxforums.org