Fedora 10 (to upgrade or not to upgrade)

cloneu2 · #1 14th May 2008, 05:00 PM

Well it looks like the dust has settled with Fedora 9's final release. Except for the Nvidia driver problem it looks quite good. Went to do a yum update and saw that I still had Rawhide turned on. SO I didn't update and now I feel kinda left out in the cold. Testing Fedora 9 was not only FUN but I LEARNED a bunch of new stuff over the last few months. It will be a let down not finding new things working and old ones broken with a daily Update.

Do we DARE just staying with the Rawhide Repo? Perhaps... After All if my computer isn't broken how could I fix it

2004-TJ · #2 14th May 2008, 05:57 PM

My experience with Rawhide is right after a release things get broken..sometimes badly...But as you said it's a great way to learn so keep with it and keep learning ;-)...Personally I'm thinking of keeping my laptop on Rawhide through the entire dev cycle this time...Picked up Fedora 9 around beta2 as I normally do...

RahulSundaram · #3 14th May 2008, 11:32 PM

Hi,

We definitely need more people testing Fedora early in the development cycle. If you can spare a test box or VM and provide feedback via fedora-test list or http://bugzilla.redhat.com, that is indeed most appreciated.

Kendoka · #4 6th June 2008, 10:42 AM

cloneu2: how are you finding the Rawhidetesting? I'm tempted to jump in head first

cloneu2 · #5 2nd July 2008, 07:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kendoka

cloneu2: how are you finding the Rawhidetesting? I'm tempted to jump in head first

rawhide 10 is GREAT! it has its own problems with KDE etc BUT I love it more that f9. Can't wait for the alpha or beta to be released

***Firewing1*** · #6 2nd July 2008, 08:34 PM

Usually, the first month or two after a release is when the serious breakage occurs. After that, I've found rawhide to be quite stable give or take a few occasions. In most cases, when come thing broke a "yum update' a day later fixes the problem

I'm going to install rawhide within the next week, since the most of the major breakage should be solve by now.
Firewing1

scottro · #7 3rd July 2008, 01:57 AM

I've been running it for awhile, and it's pretty smooth (for me.) I don't use Gnome or KDE though.

There's an aggravating issue I'm having on boot, but it seems to be one of those Just Me(TM) things, as no one responded with a me too on it. (It's minor and easily fixed, basically, I get this peculiar screen in text mode and have to do alt+F1 which puts me in a normal screen.)

scottro · #8 3rd July 2008, 04:31 AM

Y'know, this reminds me of the time when I posted on a mailing list how even Debian testing was boring. Soon afterwards, everything broke.

Of course, as soon as I posted this, the next update broke MadWifi.
I'm fighting (and losing to) a cold, so I feel too crummy to file a bug there tonight, but will in the next day or so.

It's a kernel issue. Ubuntu's Intrepid (the beta) also broke someting, however, in that case, someone has already submitted a patch. (Different breakage.)

#9 3rd July 2008, 05:11 AM

Moved to Fedora Focus...

Wayne

scottro · #10 4th July 2008, 01:51 AM

Back to my saga of my card--after posting to Fedora testing, someone else, more knowledgeable than I, had had the same problem and has provided a patch. So, wireless is up and running again with the latest Rawhide kernel.

However, it was a reminder of how Rawhide will break things without apology.