Just to ask for your thoughts as to what you think is missing in Fedora Core 2 that should have been included (Packages).

pico. It was included in past versions of Red Hat (I last used 8.0), but it is gone now. In the mean time I've learned to use vi but I'd still like to have pico as a standby.

Use nano. Pretty much the same as pico from what I can tell.

1. Why not include the real NVidia drivers with the distribution? EVERYBODY that has an NVidia card is going to install them (unless you like crappy video performance for some reason).

2. MP3 support for XMMS. I guess they don't want to get into legal issues though....Maybe have an option to install MP3 support after agreeing to some sort of disclaimer?

3. A real video player. Why not package MPlayer (with ALL the extra codecs, mozilla plugin, and skins) and Xine with fedora?

4. The Windows True Type fonts...that's usually one of the first things I install. I assume there's nothing illegal about it?

5. Firefox.

6. Flash Player.

7. Java.

Then again, if they actually did include all these things, this place would be dead :P

-teet

I think just about everything in your list is covered by some sort of licensing restriction with the exception of Firefox.

With a quick addition to yum.conf and a few minutes worth of downloading, you can install all of that yourself. Hell, I think someone wrote a script to get all of that stuff from apt and/or yum.

cdean, yep that would be me, I was going to post an updat to it aswell but couldent due to kernel recompile probs (now using 2.6.7), will be rewriting it from scratch to use yum (apt-get + freshrpms = incompatibilities with other repos so I will steer clear of this), just wanted to know what everyone wanted for FC2.

For me, whats missing in FC2 is in 3rd Party Programs section:
http://fedoraguide.org/fc2/fc2beginnersguide.html

Will try add-in more from time to time