Experience and observations of F11a/rawhide so far

[Mike Chambers]

On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 23:22 +0000, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> Surprisingly stable, for the most part, but with a few nasties:
> 
> . RPM broke completely at one point (md5 mismatch errors), necessitating
>   manual extraction from an RPM of updated components. Was there a more
>   graceful way of handling the changeover?

update rpm first, then update the rest.


> . 
> . Speed issues. I noticed no discernible improvement in disk access
>   speed (no benchmarks, just my impression), and the graphics subsystem
>   was dog slow, but this was probably just an expected result of the
>   current state of radeon. Booting seemed slightly faster, although
>   maybe that was a purely psychological effect of being distracted by
>   Plymouth? I seem to recall timing a cold boot at 60 seconds to the
>   login prompt, which is OK for a 5400RPM EIDE laptop drive, but not
>   stunning. IIRC I get that now on the currently installed Fedora 8
>   (2.6.26.8-57.fc8). Overall, the system felt decidedly laggy.

Above may be due to certain debugging turned on during the testing to
help solve problems found.  Might not be the reason or whole reason, but
surely part of it anyway.

Mike