My experiences with YDL 3.0

[Andrew Stout]

What's your hardware?

On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 02:02 PM, Etienne Beaule wrote:

> I have been playing with it for a week now and I am very impressed!
>
> List of things I like:
> 1. Gnome 2.2!
> 2. Easy to configure (in a matter of minutes, I was able to sync my=20
> Palm m505, use my Epson USB scanner, download pictures from my Olympus=20=

> camera and play DVDs)
> 3. Installation was easy
> 4. The new MOL works great (relatively fast, internet now works with=20=

> OS X - something that I was not able to make happen with previous=20
> version)
> 5. Seems quite fast to me
> 6. Easy SMB browsing (worked perfect at work - good job!)
> 7. Finally, good (but not perfect) keymaps for Canadian French=20
> keyboards
> 8. The various system tools included
> 9. The look
> 10. The hardware configurator at startup
> 11. The printer setup system tool
> 12. there is more - I can't list it all
>
> Stuff that I had to fix manually:
> 1. /usr/bin/wish was missing (gave me a few errors with apt-get). To=20=

> fix this, I had to install tk manually (from the CD)
> 2. DRI did not work right out of the box. I had to uncomment the dri=20=

> module in the xfree config file (no big deal)
> 3. No dvd player included? I used the newly created ydl 3.0 repository=20=

> to install them all (glut was missing for xine-lib so I had to install=20=

> it manually from the CD)
> 4. The bundled MrProject is quite old... I had to replace it with the=20=

> newest version (installed from source)
>
> Stuff that I didn't try:
> 1. Using firewire stuff
> 2. Accessing hfs/hfs+ partitions
> 3. Burning CDs
>
> Stuff that does not work well:
> 1. DVD playback is rather slow - I wasn't able to get Ogle to work=20
> (this was the fastest on my ex ydl 2..3) but vlc, mplayer and xine all=20=

> work (xine seems to be a little faster than the rest of the crowd)
> 2. The Kernel source package is broken (on my CD/ISO anyway - could be=20=

> a ftp error thing).
>
> Overall, I am very happy with it.
>
> =C9tienne
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