[Tfug] Considering jumping from Intrepid to Fedora 10...thoughts?

[Brian Murphy]

I use Rawhide (the Fedora bleeding edge) on my work desktop.  I synced
about 2 weeks ago and things felt tight.  I think Fedora 10 will be a
good release.

That said, I'm doing it with a 3 year old Dell desktop that doesn't have
any fancy peripherals.  I second Claude's suggesting of test driving the
live CD if you want to see how these specific things differ from what
you're seeing now.

Brian

Quoting Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com>:
> Intrepid has me bummed in a couple of areas.
>
> * Sound is wiggy - Intel laptop HDA audio broke in Intrepid beta, so I
> had to splice in OSS4.  Which while funky, works OK.  I did a clean
> install when it went gold, audio worked for a while then an update
> broke it and I'm back to OSS4.  Sigh.  Plus there's numerous reports
> that Ubuntu's PulseAudio implementation was screwball from the start.
>
> * Network Manager 7 is supposed to let me share my cellular modem
> across WiFi.  I just can't get it to work despite major hacking and
> trying four different WiFi cards/adapters.  Then I tried to share
> across Ethernet using a twist cable - nothing doing.  I also had to
> tweak settings to get my cellmodem working at all.  So now I'm down to
> wondering "is it me, or is Ubuntu's NM7 implementation just plain
> wacky?"
>
> I figure if anybody is going to get NM7 working right (a Red Hat
> project) it'll be Fedora.
>
> Fedora 10 goes live tomorrow after some delays caused by repository
> security issues (now sorted out) which suggests it's had plenty of
> time to "cook".
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> Jim
>
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