a couple comments on FC5

[worker201]

One of the interesting things about my new FC5 isntallation is the artwork. The login screen is cool-looking, the boot splash is tasteful, and the grub screen is downright mouth-watering. Where did all this come from? And will it be improved in FC6? If I had known how pleasant it was, I would have made the upgrade from 4 much earlier.

And I just noticed that when booting up, the numlock stays set. The automatic resetting of numlock on restart was one of my number one pet peeves with Linux - no startup scripts or settings seemed to fix it. Looks like they finally got it figured out. Congratulations!

[Void Main]

Sorry, but as far as artwork FC6 looks exactly like FC5 (at least in FC6Test2 which I installed last week). Regarding the numlock, this didn't work for you?

[worker201]

Never heard of numlockx before. An rpm query shows I still haven't heard of it. Whatever happened, though, seems to work.

[Void Main]

It's in extras.

For FC4:
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/extras ... 4.i386.rpm

For FC5:
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/extras ... 5.i386.rpm

[worker201]

Which reminds me: here's a list of the channels I have currently set up for Smart to use:
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/5/i386/core
http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/fc5/i386/dries/RPMS
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/5/i386/updates

What other channels should/could I be using?

[Void Main]

Well, you might want Extras (which contains a BOATLOAD of packages including the ones referenced for the numlock issue).

[worker201]

I was feeling extra industrious, so I went ahead and installed Extras, Livna, Grey Sector, and Flash.

Interestingly, the yum info for all of those repos is available in /etc/yum.repos.d/ - you'd think that Smart would be able to get that info itself. Heck it probably can, I just don't know how. Fortunately, I was able to install the channels correctly by hand.