Indeed, I'm preaching to the choir when I say that my experience with FC4 has been a labour of love. I'm quite happy with how well it's running right now. I have a couple of quirks, with alsa and my thinclient setup, that I haven't been able to sort properly, but otherwise, I'm in Linux heaven.

So, if I upgrade to FC5, will I have to retweak what I've spent ages tweaking? Or should most, or all, settings remain intact? I really dread beginning the install to discover that many hours of work have gone by the wayside.

cheers,

well i'm doing it myself at the moment over yum. currently have a bunch of unmet dependencies that will have to wait till the morning. there's no general reason for you to have problems, but if you're cautious give it a few days for peoples experiences to become more well known.

Well I just upgraded to FC5 from FC4 on an Inspiron 6000. And MOST things went fine. I inserted the DVD. Chose Upgrade and let it run. I was dual booting WinXP and FC4 w/ Windows Bootloader. I ran for about 45 minutes then finished. I rebooted and it came right up!

So far a few things are broken so far.

anjuta-1.2.3-1.fc4
yumex-0.44-4.0.fc4
yumex for FC5 seems to be broken too.

My Broadcom 2200BG wireless card is now unrecongnized by ipw2000. I might have to update the firmware.

Active State Komodo 3.5.2 works fine.

All my themes are still intact and look great.

Winbind settings and SSH mapped drives are still intact.

I also had binary versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. Both are working just as before.

Rythembox won't play MP3 so you'll have to re-install gstreamer-plugins-mp3

Other than that, everythings looks/works great!

just a question, should NVidia drivers compile without any problems in FC% ?? i did the DVD upgrade from FC4 to FC% and now i cant install the Nvidia drivers. it says the kernal modules could not be made ( and yes i did install the kernal source for the new FC5 kernal ). any ideas how i can proceed cos it sucks having a hardware accelerated desktop on a computer thats not hardware accelerated.

As some others have noted, there was a mistake made in the release and the default kernel will not accept proprietary modules. Afraid you'll probably have to wait for an updated kernel. Regarding compiling the nVidia module, have you read the sticky at the top of this (Fedora) forum? If not, I advise you do so. Much better to install the module from an external repo if possible, it's less likely to break your system.

Well... I cheated a little bit. I've "upgraded" my system by trashing it, save for my /home partition. And it went very well, except for some kernel modules not ready yet in the third-parties directories (lirc-kmdl) and Opera 8.52's plugin wrapper (based on motif). I've been up and running in less than 4 hours, from installation to the final bits of customization.

Of course, it is not my most critical system -- I'll wait until Easter weekend to upgrade that one.