Fedora Users — F7 and Happy

I wish to make a confession. I had been using Fedora Core 4 for atleast 2 years when it occurred to me I might like to upgrade. I learnedto use yum there and felt ready for other changes. I decided to gostraight to Fedora 7 and did so, Not upgrading FC4 but a fresh load. Ittook a day and a half to download.

The kernel was buggy, and lots of things were just strange. And thislist was full of messages about strange things that happened on Fedora7. Several times it was suggested to just upgrade your FC6 and hang ontothe kernel. This told me that I better load Fedora Core 6 and get usedto the new features. I did that.

On FC6 I discovered that the new Fedora is really Linux with a lotof new applications. I fooled around and with help, changed my/etc/fstab so I can mount my older Linux and bring old things to my newsystem. This all works great! I use the terminal a lot like it shouldbe, and it works just as it should. I was told to use the Thunderbirdand Firefox on FC6 or yum from Fedora. Thought about that and did as Ihave in the past. I got both from the web page and discovered I wasmissing a lib. I yummed the lib and both worked just fine. Fooled aroundand made the font larger and easier to read, but thunderbird has trouble(is slow) to open the mail.

I decided that there was a new kernel in the upgrade to F7 so Iloaded it again and right away got all the updates 50 in and I startedto learn the in and out of F7. It looks and feels like FC6, no bigsurprise. Little problems with things like Adobe Acrobat which it lookslike Adobe will start charging for the Acrobat in a few days.

Read with interest the mail on WiFi use with F7 on a lap-top. Thatgot me interested in the Fedora and Intel software that does the WiFifor many F7 users. I need today to ask on the NetworkManager list somequestions and will get to it.

In summary I am on Fedora 7 now. Happy with zero problems loadingthe software on this old computer and my newer lap-top. I have smallproblems that come and go but can be corrected with a simple fix. Ientered a bug report which is still active but there are a lot beforeit. I can get along with the Alsa Mixer as it is now.


Karl