[ale] Fedora 9

[Thompson Freeman]

On 05/18/2008 07:13:43 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
> Has anybody tried Fedora 9 yet? Any particular problems with the 
> install? Any suggestions as to what to avoid?


Scott

Sort of watching the Fedora mailing list, but not really paying 
attention to the F9 issues. So don't take this as gospel as I can mess 
things up.

There seems to be something about KDE 4 that has generated some 
traffic. I'm ignoring it since I pretty much don't use KDE. I don't 
think the problems are real show stoppers tho.

The issues with pulse audio that came up in F8 seem to have largely 
died down. I think I've only seen one complaint so far, but I will bet
that pulse still has a bit of maturing to do in F9.

If you use nVidia video cards, there seems to be an issue of some sort 
due to changes in Xorg. Seems like the nv and neuveau(sp?) open source 
drivers have issues, and the binary bits from nVidia are not completely 
ready to go with the new Xorg stuff. Since I run older nVidia cards, I 
probably should be paying attention to this, but I'm not at the moment. 
On the other hand, the noise level from this issue doesn't seem to be a 
deafening roar of "I got that problem too", so this may be something 
limited to some hardware. Like I said, I haven't been paying good 
attention. 8-/.

Hope I got everything, and hope the result helps.