[Utopia] Praise from a Utopia user

[ChangeModeKernel <cmkrnl speakeasy net>]

Hi,

I've been using HAL,  DBUS, and GVM  for several months now (since mid 
April).  (All on FC2 ). I have to say it all works great and the 
potential is even better.  It is all very amazing -- and appreciated . 
Currently running semi recent versions of most  items (HAL 2.93 from cvs 
of 12 July 2004 (Fedora's Rawhide)) DBUS 0.21 also from Rawhide and GVM 
0.9.5 (built from a hack of John Palmieri's .spec file from his 
0.9.2.src.rpm and CVS) and patched gnome-vfs2 (also from j5utopia 
repository). Thanks to Mr. Palmieri making all those RPMs and SRPMs 
available!  Actually building GVM from source wasn't quite as hard as I 
thought it would be. It only took me about an hour to update the spec 
and learn the (absolute) basics of the auto* utilities for the make 
environment and then tar it back up for the rpmbuild -ba to use. ;-)  
The gnome-vfs2 is probably the most out-of-date, but what I have works 
pretty nicely.  It was fun watching new things come together, plus 
figuring out the weird stuff (e.g. udev for /dev changes when I went to 
udev 0.29)  Looking forward to the new stuff you've been doing over the 
last couple of weeks.

Anyway, the bottom line is this -- I am totally impressed -- It makes 
Linux "usable" on the desktop -- because now the hardware I plug in just 
works. You are doing great things. Thank you!