One thing I know is alot of people who install Fedora don't realize when they are setting up mirrors that they are using repositories from mirror sites that are not directly supported by the Fedora projects policy. It means no support. It also means alot of conflicts which can also create bugs that otherwise would not come up at all quite possibly not at all! The Fedora Projects supported mirrors are at this web address: http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html I just want to point it out. When learning by using search engines you get lead into other repositories quite easily. I have set up repositories (on East Coast) using the Fedora Projects mirror sites myself with one exception of Fresh RPMs. I believe it is a good idea to install synaptic as it is easy to fix any conflicts or miss installs that may happen. I have apt, yum and synaptic setup with Fedora mirrors. How can RedHat best address bugs if you use files from non supported repositories?