<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/5 Thorsten Leemhuis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fedora@leemhuis.info">fedora@leemhuis.info</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 05.11.2008 09:19, Conrad Meyer wrote:<br>
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On Wednesday 05 November 2008 12:15:49 am rontti wrote:<br>
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I've been searching recent VLC 0.9.5 for fc8. I use acer aspire one<br>
netbook, which is based on fc8. Acer has tailored fc8 to suit to a small<br>
netbook, so it can not easily be upgraded to fc9. Acer has been quite<br>
successfull in new netbook market so I assume this problem concerns quite<br>
many people.<br>
Is there any chance to get VLC 0.9.5 for fc8 (even an unofficial one)?<br>
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Sure, enable F-9 repositories temporarily just to install vlc (once F-9 has 0.9.5).<br>
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Just a note (Conrad, don't take it as offense please): I don't think it's wise to give hints like that, as tricks like that can screw up systems easily to a point where normal users are unable to get things fixed without a reinstall.<br>
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Even worse: People that install vlc 0.9.5 from F9 for F8 with above trick won't get security updates for it, which especially for package like vlc is likely something we don't want.<br>
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Just my 2 cent of course. This is a free world and if people want to do crazy things they are free to do so ;-)<br>
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CU<br>
knurd<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br>Thanks for the note. I've noticed the importance of repo setup and been careful.<br><br>Regarding the earlier discussion, I feel there might be some misunderstanding related to acers f8. I downloaded linpus and it is quite different than acers f8. I've analyzed changes. Acer (probably bought that work form linpus) have done some small changes in these areas:<br>
- they have created they proprietary applications on top of f8 (/usr/acer directory, email client etc..)<br>- they own "skin" to xfce<br>- changes to boot process (order of some deamon starts have been changed). Boot is really fast.<br>
In fact it looks like changes are much smaller than many have done to their so called standard fedora installations.<br><br>I've been long time fedora user (five years) and was a bit proud of fedora beeing on the cutting edge netbook market (one reason for me to buy acer) and saw this as a opportunity for fedora to increase it's market share. As a summary I hope acer users are not ruled out of rpmfusion users, as one could imagine from the earlier statements.<br>
<br><br>Regs Tarmo<br><br>