Change
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Fri Mar 28 22:00:30 UTC 2008
Karl Larsen wrote:
> When there is a change in things it is natural to expect a change to
> the better. Alas a change can and does go both ways. In my personal
> experience with Linux most change is better. But there were some that
> were terrible.
>
> I was using Fedora Core 4 and with updates and help I got
> everything I wanted working, or found a way around a problem. I stayed
> with this version through Fedora Core 5 and 6 and then I think Fedora 7
> and 8. Late into Fedora 8 I tried it and had my first experience with
> Pulse Audio. The whole fedora list was full of guys complaining about no
> audio. Finally a smart guy tried deleting PA files. He deleted just one
> and his audio started working. He reported his success and many people
> did what I did. I deleted the one file and was happy again because my
> audio worked again.
>
> Today I am thinking about upgrading to version 8 and have decided to
> heck with 8. I will stay with version 7.1 for at least another year,
> perhaps 3 years. It works just fine. I have a lot of special codex files
> I apt-get and they make my system work well showing rented movies. I do
> not want to go through finding all these again.
>
>
> Karl
>
>
Here is the whole message again. I look at it and see nothing
terrible. But many of you seem to hate it.
Karl
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