Experience with FC5 - what's your take?

[A.J. Bonnema]

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Hell Everyone,
> 
> I want to make the switch to FC5, but I keep seeing messages from people
> about problems with FC5.  It could just be me, but the frequency seems
> to be a lot higher than when FC4 came out.
> 
> At the moment I have a perfectly working FC4 system.  The only hangup is
> that my laptop doesn't suspend/resume, but then again, I haven't tried
> very hard to get it working. Still, I'm happy with FC4.
> 

Hi Ranbir,

If your system is working perfectly and there are no additional wishes 
except for suspend resume, my advise would be to stick with FC4. My 
experience up to now is:

1. SELinux gets in the way a lot more than it used to. Currently I have 
disabled it, mainly because SELinux was taking more time to understand 
and correct than what I wanted to do on the computer, which is a bad 
thing, actually.

2. The video thing is still a problem. My ATI card is now working 
properly, but the 3D will only work with the propriety ATI-driver, which 
AFAIK doesn't work on my machine. I haven't tried anything new the past 
two weeks though.

3. For me, the suspend appears to work, but the resume didn't. I just 
quit using it, because it is not essential to me (not a laptop).

> I'd call myself a very well experienced Linux user.  I'm confident I
> could iron out most any problems ... <snip> ....

Ask yourself if you want to spend that time and what you will get in 
return. If the new FC5-features are not compelling to you, stay. 
Otherwise, go for it.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ranbir

Hope this helps

Guus.
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