On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:30:54AM -0600, Jesse Stay wrote: > On 6/4/07, Clint Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >As far as F7 goes itself, I think its pretty solid. Give it a > >couple weeks and the minor bugs should be sorted out. Seems about > >normal. > > This was the release that finally converted me to Ubuntu. FC6 I > could easily get my wireless card working. F7 - not a chance, and > Gnome kept freezing on me. I'm on an IBM Thinkpad R51, which I > would imagine quite a large number of Linux users use - I find it > hard to believe Fedora/Redhat did not test on this before release. I also have an R51 (http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html), so I was a bit concerned by your report. I rebooted to the F7 live CD. I couldn't connect to my network immediately using Network Manager (NM), even after trying, "create a new network". So I shut NM down, and ran a script I've written and adapted for several networks. That got me on my network. I then fired up NM. I selected the option for an existing network. That time it found my network. I don't know if the different options, existing vs. new network, made a difference. Other than that, F7 on the R51 looks very nice. > If I have to go through that much trouble to get it working, it's > not worth it to me. When I loaded Ubuntu, my wireless card worked, > even during the install - no additional configurations on my part! > I think both Fedora and Ubuntu have finally convinced me where the > "real" distro is. :-) I hereby F4 the F7... I've been thinking about moving to Ubuntu. I have hit one problem I'm not sure how to deal with: I'd like to carry over the same /home partition. My user under Fedora is UID 500. This causes problems for Ubuntu. I haven't solved that one yet. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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