Journal 680x0's Journal: RH9 to Fedora and back again.
So, expect a mini-review of Fedora here soon.
Well, I'm not sure if I gave Fedora a fair trial. Maybe I'll try it again, when I have more free time. I did like the graphical startup screen (when it switches to runlevel 5 during startup, a GUI pops up with a progress bar, and a button on which you can click to see the detailed startup messages).
I didn't like the problems I had getting
logged into X/Gnome when I had my left-over home
directory (with left-over
I suspect that wasn't all Fedora's fault, as when I switched back to RedHat 9, I had some of the same problems. I really only got running again after mv'ing my home directory, and creating a new one from skeleton files.
Who is to blame? I dunno. Gnome? Metacity? Not sure... But I think the problem is that some stored setting (in a config file in my home directory) specifies something that no longer makes sense (non-existant window manager, background image that moved or no longer exists, etc.). Software should be robust enough to substitute some default setting for one that is (now) incorrect.
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RH9 to Fedora and back again.
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