Not Utopia
Watched The Matrix Revolutions and Basic today. Both good shows, I understand Matrix Revelations a lot better now :)
OS X 10.3 detected the DVDs like a charm, and also played them automatically for me in full-screen. Excellent, I thought I’d try and replicate this with Fedora. So, I upgraded my kernel to one from Rawhide, followed the instructions from FNU#1, and had a working kernel.
Proceeded to download the Project Utopia stuff, did a rpm -Uvh, and it all installed. D-BUS wouldn’t start, but rml had a solution.
D-BUS started, but my joy didn’t exist. Granted, I wasn’t tracking Rawhide for my packages, and this is probably where things broke. Everytime I typed something into gnome-volume-properties, my console would report manager.c/168: Configuration: changed!. Guess there’s some work to be done with getting all the integration stuff working, and make it truly, more OS X like.
Probably should add that Fedora -> Preferences -> CD Properties actually gets stuff working pretty well, even on 2.4 kernels. No it doesn’t do all the funky “let’s detect new hardware”, but gnome-cd-properties generally gets audio CDs playing automagically.
Not exactly like OS X, I hope – I used to have a Powerbook running 10.2, and there was no way I could persuade VLC to play a DVD from another region. There was no RPC1 patch for my drive yet.
It seems like Apple decided to disallow raw access to the DVD drive.. on Linux, libdvdcss happily decodes DVDs with a scant few seconds’ worth of delay.
Well, don’t get me wrong, I don’t like OS X. I’m just looking at it hard to make Linux more usable. I’ve used OS X before for a week before getting it off and getting some form of Linux on my iBook (yellowdog, debian).
So yeah, I’m only comparing stuff because I’d want Linux to become better. Really.