[ale] Any Thoughts on Fedora 12?

[scott mcbrien]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Andy Whitten <pilarlosada at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
>

Andy,

I use EPEL and RPMFusion, they usually have a lot of nice packages.
Not the new hotness of Fedora, but usually they get me whatever
additional packages I need for RHEL or CentOS.

-Scott