Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the whether-to-install-or-not dept.
Mark writes "A full review of the latest Fedora Core release, code named "Bordeaux", the Fedora Core 5, which has proven itself to be one of the best Linux Distributions out there. "
How is THAT supposed to NOT anti-attract a newbie?
Apparently by forcing the graphics card companies to open source their drivers, much in the same way that the peace protesters prevented the war in Iraq....
When are we going to see some real in-depth reviews of released operating systems on Slashdot? As usual, most of the "review" is a bunch of screenshots, mostly of the installation and the startup. Is that going to persuade anyone to stay or switch?
How about once posting a review that include some mentions of - security - stability (including doing some major upgrading) - hardware support - performance as: server, office workstation, development environment, multimedia/htpc
I realise it is difficult to go in-depth on all these topics, especially with a recently released OS version. But perhaps we could set the standards a little higher than a few "ooh, shiny" screenshots?
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Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
For anyone trying to use the Flash plugin on Fedora Core 5, you may have noticed that it only shows images, not text.
It turns out that Flash has hard-coded the font paths and is still looking in/usr/X11R6/lib, but the new R7 X server doesn't use the X11R6 paths anymore. (The same problem will happen with any distro that uses X.org's new modular X server)
You can work around the problem by creating/usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and symbolically linking to/etc/X11/fs and/usr/share/X11/fonts.
Also, if you have SELinux running in enforcing mode, you need to allow text relocations on the Flash library.
chcon -t texrel_shlib_t/path/to/libflashplayer.so
With any luck, Macrodobe will fix both of these in an upcoming version of the plugin.
I found the solution in the comments on a Mozilla bug report. Remember, Bugzilla doesn't allow direct links from Slashdot, so if you really need to read the bug discussion, go to bugzilla.mozilla.org and search for bug 317655.
Slashdot Mirror
For those who don't like to click through 5 pages to read an article, here is a link to the print version.
"It ain't a war against drugs.it's a war against personal freedom" --Bill Hicks
How is THAT supposed to NOT anti-attract a newbie?
Apparently by forcing the graphics card companies to open source their drivers, much in the same way that the peace protesters prevented the war in Iraq....
Oh wait.
May the Maths Be with you!
When are we going to see some real in-depth reviews of released operating systems on Slashdot? As usual, most of the "review" is a bunch of screenshots, mostly of the installation and the startup. Is that going to persuade anyone to stay or switch?
How about once posting a review that include some mentions of
- security
- stability (including doing some major upgrading)
- hardware support
- performance as: server, office workstation, development environment, multimedia/htpc
I realise it is difficult to go in-depth on all these topics, especially with a recently released OS version. But perhaps we could set the standards a little higher than a few "ooh, shiny" screenshots?
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
It turns out that Flash has hard-coded the font paths and is still looking in
You can work around the problem by creating
I found the solution in the comments on a Mozilla bug report. Remember, Bugzilla doesn't allow direct links from Slashdot, so if you really need to read the bug discussion, go to bugzilla.mozilla.org and search for bug 317655.