1. Downloaded the DVD ISO, burnt it and began the installation 2. Anaconda starts and BY DEFAULT, selects the option for a fresh install rather than upgrade... despite this machine very clearly being a fully functioning FC5 install. Nice... someone not paying attention would be in for a shock 3. Anaconda then says that it is analysing dependencies... for nearly 25 minutes. I understand that the installer is now based on YUM... so this extreme slowness is only to be expected. I then get to watch it upgrading for another 2 hours... yep, that's a YUM install for you 4. I try to re-install my NVIDIA drivers... only to be told that it cannot find the kernel source. However, that appears to be installed. After 2 more hours of fruitless messing around, I spot that fedora core 6 has, for whatever deranged reason, decided to install kernel-devel packages for i686, and the kernel itself is i586. rpm -ivh --force dvd/kernel-blah-blah-.i686.rpm fixes it... and it now works. 5. Run tremulous to find that for some unknown reason, the interface is now very very dark. No settings have changed between running it under FC5 last night and running it under FC6 today. Brightness slider is at max too. Oh well, just another in the usual huge list of breakages that go with running a Red Hat alpha test version of their forthcoming RHEL... eh. Oops... shouldn't say that, should I. 6. XMMS doesn't work. 7. Decide to try out the supposedly spiffy new desktop effects. Selecting foot menu -> System -> Preferences -> desktop effects... and yes, all my window borders disappear, but don't come back, so I can't change Windows or do anything really. Strangely the bottom GNOME panel works, and I can switch desktops. My slide-out side panel selector doesn't work. Oh well... lucky for me that I got fed up with SELinux under FC5 and disabled it completely, or I'd no doubt have about 30 or 40 other nasty breakages and stuff that "JUST DOESN'T WORK" (tm). Still... GTK can't be any slower and memory hungry under FC6 than it was under FC5, can it? I suppose I'll find out.
