yet another day in fedora land...

[Nathan Meyers]

Stephen Adler wrote:
> Well, I was about to get divorced from Feroda and perhaps start an 
> affair with ubuntu... Long story short, my desktop setup just seemed to 
> get buggier and buggier, with application not running right, windows 
> freezing up bla bla bla...
>
> So I decided to do the dirty and reinstall fedora 10 from scratch. They 
> way I got to fedora 10 in the first place was through an upgrade from 
> fedora 8. What a difference...
>
> It comes down to this basic principle which I should follow from now 
> on.... Never upgrade, always install. The only think that I can think of 
> is that there was too much crud from fedora 8 laying about after the 
> upgrad to fedora 10 that things didn't quite work. It's not so much that 
> old fc8 rpms were laying about, but fc8 settings and configurations were 
> left in place instead of running the new fc10 settings. Anyway, a fresh 
> install of fc10 fixed all that.
>   
I've never had a successful upgrade with Red Hat and its offshoots - I 
haven't even tried in a few years after some really dismal experiences. 
FWIW, I'm finding Debian (Kubuntu, specifically) to be much better in 
that regard.

Nathan

> And to boot, I was able to get compiz fully working which is the real 
> cat's meow... If anyone needs assitance on this, here's the URL...
>
>    
> http://miltonpaiva.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/compiz-fusion-gnome-fedora-10-x86_64/
>
> Also not, for those using nivida drivers, you need to add the line
>
>     ModulePath      "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
>
> in the "Files" section in your xorg.conf
>
> I guess I won't divorce fedora yet... but it was a rough patch there....
>
> Cheers. Steve.
>
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