[ale] Any Thoughts on Fedora 12?

[Andy Whitten]

William Witt wrote:
> On 11/28/2009 07:42 PM, Marc Ferguson wrote:
>   
>> Hey Folks,
>>
>> I'm a big-time Fedora user and I wanted to know if anyone has played
>> with Fedora 12, natively? I'm going to wait about another week or so
>> before I upgrade. Also; I've done the netboot install lately, but I see
>> that I can do a YUM upgrade option. Does anyone recommend that?  Thanks.
>>
>>     
>
> I've been running F12 since RC without any major issues.  The one thing 
> that came up publicly is that a default F12 install would allow all 
> users to install signed packages through packagekit, but that has since 
> been reversed through an update.  The only other issue I personnaly ran 
> into was that they fixed a bug in ogg so that it would respect requested 
> bitrates.  This fscked recordmydesktop's defaults, so now I have to 
> specify to do any screencasts (not really a big deal).
>
> There have been some issues with people upgrading when they initially 
> installed from the F11 liveCD.  The default boot partition was 200M and 
> it tries to stuff 223M worth of stuff in there.  I personally do fresh 
> installs vice upgrading, but it may bite you if you aren't prepared.
>
> Will
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I have been thinking about moving to Fedora 12. The only issue I've got 
is Flash. It worked great in 10 ; 11 not so much and, 12 I can only hope 
so!.. I am currently using Centos 5.3.. I like it but I miss the wealth 
of packages in the Fedora repos.


Regards,

Andy