Max ([info]avatraxiom) wrote,
@ 2008-05-16 14:07:00
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Entry tags:fedora, linux, tech

Fedora 9: First Impressions
So, I just started using Fedora 9 yesterday, and it has some really great things that I've noticed so far.

PolicyKit is the best integrated authorization and keychain system in any OS I've ever used. It's awesome--it does everything I want it to do, in exactly the way I want it to do it.

Firefox 3 is awesome--the usability and general interface enhancements make this the best browser I've ever used, by far. The AwesomeBar really is awesome.

The "Locations" thing in the Date/Time dropdown in the panel is great. It's a small thing, but I really love it. Now I finally know exactly what time it is in all the places where my co-developers/workers live, and whether it's day or night there. (And even what their weather is like!)

And everything seems speedier, in general, which is nice. :-)

The only problem I've had so far is that sound still doesn't work in the flash plugin with PulseAudio--same problem I had in Fedora 8 (and yes, I do have pulseaudio-libs.i386 installed).

-Max




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libflashsupport
[info]rahulsundaram
2008-05-17 09:54 am UTC (link)
Hi,

Do you have libflashsupport installed? This is needed for sound compatibility with PulseAudio since Flash uses a legacy sound framework in a broken way.

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Re: libflashsupport
[info]avatraxiom
2008-05-17 10:17 pm UTC (link)
Hey! Yeah, I went on #fedora and asked, and actually realized that about libflashsupport right before I got that answer. :-) I installed libflashsupport and now it works--I think that was missing from the release notes?

-Max

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Re: libflashsupport
[info]rahulsundaram
2008-05-17 10:46 pm UTC (link)
I updated the wiki a while back when the same issue was raised in fedora-list and a web and packages-release-notes refresh is following up shortly in the second and last update to Fedora 9 release notes.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2008-May/msg00047.html

Ps: It would good to see you on Planet Fedora too

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet

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Re: libflashsupport
[info]avatraxiom
2008-05-17 11:21 pm UTC (link)
Cool.

I sent an app to admin@fp for Planet, we'll see how that goes.

-Max

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