[Tfug] Considering jumping from Intrepid to Fedora 10...thoughts?

[Andrew Ayre]

What do you have to lose by trying it? Create a new partition and dual 
boot. If you don't like it wipe the partition...

Andy

Jim March wrote:
> Intrepid has me bummed in a couple of areas.
> 
> * Sound is wiggy - Intel laptop HDA audio broke in Intrepid beta, so I
> had to splice in OSS4.  Which while funky, works OK.  I did a clean
> install when it went gold, audio worked for a while then an update
> broke it and I'm back to OSS4.  Sigh.  Plus there's numerous reports
> that Ubuntu's PulseAudio implementation was screwball from the start.
> 
> * Network Manager 7 is supposed to let me share my cellular modem
> across WiFi.  I just can't get it to work despite major hacking and
> trying four different WiFi cards/adapters.  Then I tried to share
> across Ethernet using a twist cable - nothing doing.  I also had to
> tweak settings to get my cellmodem working at all.  So now I'm down to
> wondering "is it me, or is Ubuntu's NM7 implementation just plain
> wacky?"
> 
> I figure if anybody is going to get NM7 working right (a Red Hat
> project) it'll be Fedora.
> 
> Fedora 10 goes live tomorrow after some delays caused by repository
> security issues (now sorted out) which suggests it's had plenty of
> time to "cook".
> 
> What do you guys think?
> 
> Jim


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