Re: F6 -> F8 on cdrom system?
- From: Trog Woolley <trog@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:10:17 +0000 (UTC)
While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx typed:
As for F8, you should hold off. F8 is the most radical version that
they've done in a very long time. On the one hand it looks to be very
promising. It's much faster than earlier versions. RH has been getting
slower and slower ever since RH 8.
I attempted to install F7 on a machine a couple of days before the release
of F8. It wasn't having it (kept crashing on the install in random places)
so I installed FC6 and then did yum update. This worked fine and reported
itself as Fedora 8 on completion.
We've had only one problem with it. Fedora defaults to Gnome but we run
KDE as our desktop. We don't even install Gnome, yet gdm is always installed
and we just let it run and serve the KDE desktop. (Yes I know it's an odd
situation, but we've been running like this for years with no problems).
The second day of running F8, the system reported a load of security updates.
I think that this was the day that Fedora 8 was officially released. After
this update, the system displayed a black screen after it had booted, with
just an X mouse pointer displayed, ie X was running but it couldn't talk to
the windows manager. I uninstalled gdm, letting kdm take over and the
problem went away.
We haven't noticed an increase in speed. The user of this system was
previously running FC3 on an identical machine, and she says that the new
machine is slightly slower. Of course, this might be the application that
she runs (the Koha library system), but according to their mailing list,
the latest incarnation (which we are running on the new install) is faster
that the version we ran on the FC3 machine. I haven't benchmarked these
systems; if I get time I will.
The networking is also busted. On one of my machines with two ethernet
cards it only brings up one even though both are configured to come up at
boot time.
We haven't noticed this. The aforementioned system has two network cards
and both come up at perfectly on boot. What I do find annoying is the
constant prompt to save your changes, when you run system-config-network.
Deactiveate an network card and you are asked to save your changes, before
deactiveation (even if you haven't made any). Similarly if you activate
a network card via the gui.
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(A Croweater back residing in Pommie Land with Linux)
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