Fedora 9 Preview: Successful Install Report

Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 22 07:55:26 UTC 2008


Just out of curiosity, when you saved /home, and created the same user in
the new installation. Did the new user get the same UID by chance, or by
design :)

2008/4/22 Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com>:

> I downloaded and installed the Fedora 9 ("Sulphur") Preview release over
> the weekend, replacing my current F-8 installation. The following is a
> report of my experiences with it, so far.
>
> My hardware is Smolt UUID 6059d15d-2980-42a7-8027-525b1ec25833 [1].
>
> Anaconda: Everything went fabulously. I easily saved my /home partition
> and re-sized some others (all ext3) before installing. The install
> actually seemed to take significantly less time than the same Fedora 8
> configuration (same box); but I don't know how much of that is
> subjective and how much is actually quicker. =)
>
> (Please note, though, that I do not use LVM, nor did I try encrypted
> partitions. I don't have a need for either of those options.)
>
> X/RHGB: Beautiful. The new theme work is brilliant. I did not notice any
> flicker when starting X initially. It recognized my G965 onboard and
> properly used the intel driver. 3-D and XVideo acceleration work as
> expected.
>
> Firstboot: No errors or faults. Since I kept my /home partition from the
> F8 installation, I rather like how it warned me about the user directory
> already existing when I re-created the 'pgordon' user for myself. (Was
> that in previous releases?)
>
> Input: Setting up the caps-lock as a compose key for diacritics
> (Spanish) was simple as it has always been though GNOME's keyboard
> preferences capplet. Getting Japanese input with SCIM was a bit more of
> a hassle though. For some reason, even though installed just about
> everything I could find SCIM-/Anthy-related, im-chooser still errored
> with a "No input methods found" message when I tried to select it.
> However, I updated everything to current rawhide using PackageKit and
> rebooted; and SCIM+Anthy once again works beautifully and as expected
> (Romaji method). My Wacom BambooFun tablet also worked beautifully with
> no effort on my part, whereas I had to manually compile and use the
> linuxwacom stuff in F8.
>
> (On a side note, I had stability issues with SCIM+Epiphany in F8; but
> try as I may, I have yet to be able to produce the same issues on my
> Sulphur install.)
>
> PackageKit/PolicyKit: WONDERFUL. I love the work you developers are
> doing with these things. The only regression I saw from Pirut/Yumex is
> that there was no way to select and install multiple packages at once.
> However, I found after some experimenting that I was able to easily
> select one package, click Install, then select others and click Install
> again, and they would be queued as sequential transactions. Spiffy.
>
> NetworkManager: Another awesome feature. I had been using this in F8,
> but with Sulphur, I found it much simpler to edit my DNS settings
> through its GUI connection editor [2], instead of having to hardcode a
> bunch of IP addresses in /etc/sysconfig files. My home Wi-Fi (802.11b)
> works beautifully, and NetworkManager takes care of the nasty
> configuration stuffs for me. \o/
>
> SELinux: Happily does its job and stays out of my way, as it should.
> I've noticed only that I have yet to notice anything from it, which is a
> very good sign. =)
>
> Swfdec: YouTube works beautifully "out of the box" after installing the
> various swfdec packages through Anaconda. Yay!
>
> Sulphur is looking AWESOME so far; but I will be sure to file any bugs
> should they arise in my using it. =]
>
> [1] 
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show_all/pub_6059d15d-2980-42a7-8027-525b1ec25833
> [2] My ISP's DNS is horrendously slow, so I have all of our computers
> at home set to use OpenDNS's namservers. Much nicer...
> --
> Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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