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Upgrading to Fedora 6

I upgraded to Fedora 6. I've been long time using Fedora 4 on my work notebook, mainly because all ran as expected -- got to admit that first 3 or 4 months with FC4 on a brand new VAIO were not as much fun as one would expect, but once things settled down I could not complain. Well, I could, but I don't.

The only thing not working on FC4 was suspend, but do not run much into situations where I could make a good use of it anyways.

I skipped FC5 'cause I was to lazy to upgrade/fix oracle installation and cautious not to upgrade the system. Years of distributions usage has made me quite conservative about updates.

With my FC4 installation I upgraded to GNOME 2.14 (if I remember correctly) and once the 3rd party repository was not updated I decided to upgrade.

The installation went smoothly. Clean, fast, non-problematic. Installation of all I need for every day use did go well ok too. The only thing that bothers me are nvidia drivers which are anything but stable, so once I find some that works I stick to for long time. Sort of annoys me that there are higher number drivers out there (hoping with a proper suspend wakeup available) but often then screw up something. Never mind -- I can wait.

What is really a cool toy is the

Preferences -> Desktop Effects 

thing. Once you tweak your X server to behave correctly you can get compiz manage your desktop. Nice toy to impress the impressables.

 

One of the most impressive things of FC6 compared to my old FC4 installation is it's speed. I admit that it is very subjective, but I'm impressed how fast the whole desktop is.

On Jan 4th the plan for FC7 has been published. Can't wait.

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Posted at 02:01PM Jan 18, 2007 by bs31 in Personal  |