I had a glitch on resart with my ati graphics laptop but a drop to init 3 and manually starting X as root cleaned up the xorg.conf file.<br><br>A couple of big pluses for F9: <br><br>reconnecting wireless after a suspend or hibernate "just works" now (used to require a module reload which was root privs - not good for normal users);.<br>
<br>atheros a/b/g in the distro so no more digging up madwifi code<br><br>Network Manager supports EVDO cell modem! <br><br>I've been running preview9 on my work laptop for the past week. The tickless kernel patch has (with some other power management tweaks) extended battery life out another hour or so. Setting idle time to 1 minute and dim the backlight is a nice feature. Working NM means a suspend is not as troublesome to awake from.<br>
<br>They _still_ have every directory window open a new one when system browsing. It's an easy fix but it's either know the gconf-2 cli or get gconf-editor as there is now way to configure it otherwise.<br><br><br>
Caveat: I had a F8 setup with encrypted hard drive. F9 noted the encryption and prompted for the password during the setup phase before drive config. In drive config, I told it to wipe all partitions, encrypt drive and create the stock setup. It crashed. Rebooted and did it again but this tme it didn't ask for unlock password and it ran successfully. Wireless was not available during the install but "just worked" once fully installed.<br>
<br>Every generation the distros just keep getting better! F9 has a bunch of default folders for users (copied from Mac and winders, OK, OK) and the Downloads folder is nicely linked to Firefox download action Documents to OpenOffice, Music to Rythmbox, etc.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Scott Castaline <<a href="mailto:hscast@charter.net">hscast@charter.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Has anybody tried Fedora 9 yet? Any particular problems with the<br>
install? Any suggestions as to what to avoid?<br>
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