Re: Anyone using F17?

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Brian Long <[email protected]> wrote:

> When CentOS 5 was getting long in the tooth, I upgraded my backend to
> Fedora 16 and I regret doing so.  I should have stuck with SL 6.  I've not
> played with F17 on my workstation since I prefer the enterprise releases.
>
> /Brian/
>
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> after sometime trying to use F17,
>> I know of some nasty problems lurking around:
>>
>> 1) applications using gtk2 may crash (e.g., vlc)
>> 2) libpng 1.5 hide some structures from applications,
>> and the compilation fails (e.,g. povray)
>> 3) module-init-tools is gone (deprecated by kmod),
>> and all kmdls do not install
>>
>> I can stay with F14/rhel6 for a long time or
>> we can try to fix whatever we can.
>>
>> Is anybody really using F17 in ATrpms?
>>
>>

I just installed F17 on a brand new I7 computer.
I have the old computer (with F14) and the new one side by side, and just
switch
between them in the monitor source (fortunately it has two outputs: a dvi
and a vga).

Gnome 3 is really awkward, and systemd, well, it is better not to say what
I thought of it....
kde seems the same to me, and I think it is time to forget about gnome ...
Gnome3 seems as a big iphone to me, but lacking the Apple product polishing
and the
appropriate hardware. Every tweak takes a long time, mainly because the
configuration
tools are not installed by default or simply do not exist ...

Anyway, I was able to force the installation of the nvidia kmdl and had to
install
pyxf86config-0.3.37-10.fc15.x86_64.rpm from F16, because it is gone on F17.

Then I blacklisted nouveau in /etc/default/grub and recreated the grub2
config file.
 Well, at least I am using the nvidia driver now and google-earth is at
full power again.



-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ