Re: What is the matter with fedora 9?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 14:46 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> fedora wrote:
> > Hi every
> > 
> > What is the matter with fedora 9?
> > 
> > it introduced a NetworkManager which prohibits networking.
> 
> NetworkMangler has been around since FC6 (at least), by making it the 
> default it became impossible to ignore. It does the right thing in cases 
> where you have one hardwire or wireless connection which can see only 
> one AP. For all other cases wait for the human readable documentation 
> which will be here... or maybe not, since it was coming with FC7, 8, and 9.
The above is clearly not true, I use NM in environments where there are
3 or 4 APs to choose from.
> 
> > programs are acessible only as root user: xsane just does nothing as 
> > non-root user.
> 
> More likely to be a device permission problem, in my experience. Blame 
> hal or SElinux, it's not that hard to fix.
> 
> > openoffice blocks its drop-downs in the main menu for 20 seconds, if you 
> > are not root. if you are root, everything is as good/as bad as with 
> > fedora 8, thanks very much.
> 
> Other people have said that's because when they upgraded they left stuff 
> in various "dot" directories. Doesn't happen in clean installs, at least 
> that I've noticed.
> 
> > openldap breaks down every now and then, and stays with a corrupt 
> > sleepycat database, which is not revoverable.
> 
> I didn't see your bugzilla on that.
> > 
> > could the relevant persons please provide an update to fedora 9 as soon 
> > as possible? thanks very much.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen tmr com>
>    "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
> the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
> 
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