Why I quit Fedora 7

[Les Mikesell]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>>   
>    I have applied quite a few updates over the past few days. And still 
> I'm having problems you do not. Not sure why. But for me the basic 
> things just do not work.

Did you start with a clean install or did you do an upgrade to an older 
version?  The latter can cause some problems and it is much safer to 
back up your own data minus the dot-config files in your home directory 
(which takes some contortions if you want to keep email folders, etc 
that might be there), and put them back after the new install.  Now that 
disk drives are fairly cheap you might want to install on a new drive 
and set up dual booting so you keep all of the old data until everything 
works and fall back to the old system if needed. Or for a less drastic 
approach, install vmware on the old system and run the new one as a 
guest until you are comfortable with the way everything works.

The other thing likely to cause unusual problems is installing software 
that replaces system components from places other than the stock fedora 
repositories (and livna is usually OK), letting yum resolve the 
dependencies.  That doesn't always break things but it should be the 
first thing to suspect if you've done it and I think you did mention at 
least a thunderbird and some libraries.  If you have problems that 
others don't, you'll probably have to get back to a stock system and see 
if they are fixed.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com