--- lanas <lanas(a)securenet.net> wrote:
All,
I've installed Fedora 9 and would like to share
some notes about it.
All in all I was a bit deceived by some of its
aspects, be them from
the system itself, KDE, or Konqueror. I think that
nevertheless I
will perseverate and will not revert back to Fedora
8.
This is a x86 install. before doing the install,
a backup of
/home/[user] and /etc/ from F8 was made, kept as a
reference.
I do not want to draw a grim picture of Fedora 9.
I might end up
keeping it after all, but I surely thought about
reverting back to F8.
This machine is used for work and it seems I keep
being trapped into
this idea of trying not the bleeding edge, not the
alpha or beta, but
the official release, thinking that it would end up
with a wow! effect
will keeping the functionality I had before,
notwithstanding some
small adaptation to some possible (few) new ways of
doing things.
It seems that time has not yet come.
Coincidently, I always had
good experiences with even-numbered releases such as
Fedora 6 and
Fedora 8. I still keep F6 at home with all the
music-making apps
since it works so well. Too bad it's already
outdated and there are
no new updates for it.
Maybe Fedora 10 will have a consistent wow! factor
?
The good things:
+ At least yum works !!!
+ xine from livna installs fine and plays some
video fine.
+ using yum, claws-mail install fines and runs
immediately, provided
that a previous .claws-mail was copied from F8 in
the user
directory.
+ The DVD gave no (DMA or otherwise) errors
whereas for F8 I had to
install from a USB key.
The not-so-good things:
* Add/Remove Software utility
- The Add/Remove software utility shows
´Downloading files´ endlessly
(internet connection is functional)
- Has no detailed feddback on what's going on
- Cannot do several tasks at once (waiting for
other tasks to
complete) whereas kyum can.
Result: no software can be installed using this
utility.
Is this the utility that got a spotlight in F9 new
features ?
+ At least yum works !!!
* Konsole / video
- Konsole is no longer transparent whereas it was
with F8
- Mouse rotary scroll button does not (worked with
F8)
Konsole reports that the graphic capabilities are
not good enough to
support transparency whereas F8 had no problem
with that (on same
computer)
Video is:
Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics
Controller (rev 02)
A quite slow glxgears reports:
Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling
back to classic.
4790 frames in 5.0 seconds = 957.905 FPS
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily
unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
after 19132 requests (6276 known processed)
with 0 events remaining.
Video is not so fast, perhaps slower than F8.
glxgears is not
right. KDE looks nice, but is slow.
* Missing apps ?
- My favorite kyum is found by the yum installer
but... kyum cannot
run because is misses kdesu.
yum install kdesu
Parsing package install arguments
No package kdesu available.
Nothing to do
- same with kpdf
* KDE (category: Bummer)
- Add Widgets widget - how to make it go away ?
- Multiple desktops - not easy to find where to
add desktops.
Havent't found it yet. Bummer.
- taskbar - not easy to find how to make it
disappear
automatically. Havent't found it yet. Bummer.
- auto mouse focus - not easy to find. Havent't
found it
yet. Bummer.
- KDE System Settings: Search is broken as far as
it cannot return
anything for ´keyboard´ whereas previous F8 KDE
reporte a list of
possibilities. Is this an upgrade ?
* Fonts
Although the DejaVu LGC fonts are installed:
ls /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/
[...]
DejaVuLGCSansMono-Oblique.ttf
DejaVuLGCSansMono.ttf
[...]
It is not possible to use them as per the Fedora
8 system, as in:
emacs -fn "DejaVu LGC Sans Mono-12"
The system reports that the font is not found.
What gives ?
* VmWare (category: very, very useful)
vmware cannot be installed per se because there
are no sources
available for that kernel in the repositories.
uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1
SMP Thu May 1
06:28:41 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
And the listing has:
kernel-headers.i386 2.6.25.3-18.fc9 installed
Why aren't the headers the same ? And, where are
they stored ?
Maybe I could install VmWare with these.
* Konqueror browser
- 'right-click' and 'back' does not go back
anymore
I wonder what kind of upgrade in functionality
this is.
* Printer
The two network printers couldn't be discovered
automatically.
* Shares
The two CIFS shares can not be mounted. Still
have to investigate
on that one.
These were the notes I've taken today. Any
comments/hints are
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How about the ugly?
The Good, The Bad and the UGLY.
some would say that the ugly is gdm? But that might
not be the no. 1 answer.
Regards,
Antonio