Another failure

[Beartooth]

	On an expendable (and thoroughly backed up, fully updated) Athlon 
XP 2800+ with 1.9 GB of memory, running F 14, I asked here on April 25 
about preupgrade. Having gotten two prompt and helpful replies, I went 
ahead, getting an install of F15 Beta.

	Starting April 27, I began a thread ("So where are my 
workspaces?") which became long and bifurcated, both here and on the 
testers' list. There was a lot of floundering on my part, with helpful 
specific links to several bugs, which I studied. I also kept updating F15 
at least daily.

	F15 soon reached a point where its login screen produced only 
error messages, which I posted. The bugs meanwhile were gradually 
declared fixed, though the fix didn't work on this machine. About that 
point I ceased keeping up with the lists, though I kept trying.

	With upgrades and "yum install" commands issued over ssh from 
other machines on my LAN, I became able to log into KDE4 and Xfce; I 
spent some time trying them out, particularly as to workspace switchers 
or substitutes. (There were also several other threads, on both lists 
iirc, from other users whose needs Gnome 3 seemed not to meet.)

	When F15 was declared golden, I waited a couple of days, burned a 
DVD, and tried to "upgrade." No change. I tried doing a fresh install, 
figuring that some obscure glitch on this machine must be responsible. No 
change.

	Finally I pulled the big hammer: wiped the whole machine with 
DBAN, and did a second fresh install of F15. It still hit the dead bug 
with logging into Gnome3.

	I couldn't face the effort to enable KDE4 or Xfce via ssh again, 
nor the learning curve that would follow. I'm now 
managing,unsatisfactorily but adequately, with Scientific Linux 6.0 on 
this machine. (I have EPEL, rpmforge, and rpmfusion enabled.)

	I'll probably try F16 this fall, and meanwhile stick to F14 on my 
other machines. 

	What I miss most from Fedora are these :

dillo, galeon, epiphany, kazehakase, midori, privoxy, seamonkey, and 
gnome-control-center. (SL seems to have the last, but I can't get 
anything but "command not found" from it.)

	Question: if I forgo yum and PackageKit, and get ahold of actual 
Fedora rpms somewhere, can I install and run them in SL? Or is there a 
compatible repo I've overlooked??

	In theory, according to the EPEL page, they should be available 
there; but they don't seem to be.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.