Today I moved to Fedora 9.
First impression :
It seems nice, it’s fast.
The only bad point is the quality of the graphics rendering during the installation, on my Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller, the buttons and the text fields were not complete 🙁
I’m using now swfdec for flash in Firefox and it’s ok with nba.com so I’m happy. I find also nice that to enable a flash animation a click on it is needed, I hope it safes some cpu usage 😉
As usually, when I install a new Fedora, I always do a fresh install. I found two nice projects that helped me in my task to recover my login and passwords :
– password exporter (for Firefox) : http://code.google.com/p/passwordexporter/
– GNOME Keyring XML Import/Export Library (for all my gnome applications using keyring) : http://www.seekline.net/gnome-keyring-xml/
I’ll come back later on my feeling about Fedora 9, let’s use it a bit…
hi, i’ve installed F9 on my laptop and i find it working quite nice. Everthing works from the first start, even the right screen resolution is detected.
I might switch to F9 from Ubuntu Hardy. I found the new Ubuntu release not quite stable.
I agree with you regarding ubuntu. I’ve never seen linux lock up completely and/or reset before. Don’t know quite how they managed that!
Hardy was my first venture into evaluating ubuntu – on new hardward whilst i waited for FC9 to be released. Not terribly impressed. Nice package management, and most things that are installed seem pre-configured in a sensible way…
… but you know, it just seemed more like a distro for windoze users / complete newbies rather than a distro for serious computing.
Keep up the work on the site 🙂
Pete, Preston, UK.