On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 23:22 +0000, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
Surprisingly stable, for the most part, but with a few nasties:
. RPM broke completely at one point (md5 mismatch errors), necessitating
manual extraction from an RPM of updated components. Was there a more
graceful way of handling the changeover?
update rpm first, then update the rest.
.
. Speed issues. I noticed no discernible improvement in disk access
speed (no benchmarks, just my impression), and the graphics subsystem
was dog slow, but this was probably just an expected result of the
current state of radeon. Booting seemed slightly faster, although
maybe that was a purely psychological effect of being distracted by
Plymouth? I seem to recall timing a cold boot at 60 seconds to the
login prompt, which is OK for a 5400RPM EIDE laptop drive, but not
stunning. IIRC I get that now on the currently installed Fedora 8
(2.6.26.8-57.fc8). Overall, the system felt decidedly laggy.
Above may be due to certain debugging turned on during the testing to
help solve problems found. Might not be the reason or whole reason, but
surely part of it anyway.
Mike