Just wondering - what's eveybody's opinion of F 9? Does it change something? Is something better?

Well, they've probably changed stuff, why not read the release notes to see what's new?

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/

TG

If you are running F8 without issues I would hold off until F10. IF you are having issues with F8 you might look into it further. F9 does have better support for some hardware (every new release does). Last I checked F9 does not have support for "legacy" video drivers (the proprietary ones) yet(there was a change in major xorg version starting in F9).

Fedora 9 is just an other working Linux distro Does it change something well Fedora 8 use kde 3.5 Fedora 9 kde 4 it
is different works it better dan FC8 it is different.
On my machine every things works in FC8 and FC9 so for my it does not make much difference, but I like to stay updated
And if you use Kde it is away to get use to kde4

all the best

Well lets see, the nvidia/xorg disaster is over (Yes!) I still have an irk about gnome 2.22. You can't change the login theme. I can't think of anything else off the top of my head that's wrong, oh wait, I'm not entirely happy with firefox 3 beta, it seems like 2% of the plug-ins and themes work with it and firefox still doesn't render certain pages properly if you have a dark gnome/kde theme (The only fix was accessibar which could change the background/foreground colors to a reasonable combination as opposed to the typical bright gray text on a white background on some pages .) Other than a cooler looking module loading progress bar I have not (yet) benefited to making the change from fedora 8 to fedora 9.

I have it running on a Celeron M laptop with 1.5Gb of memory. I have Fedora 8 running on my desktop (AMD64 3400 with 1.5GB memory.) I started with Fedora 9 on this laptop while it was still in beta, testing to decide whether I would use Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 or Fedora 9 as my main laptop OS. I followed both through the updates to the final release. Fedora won this battle hands down as it was FAR more stable at release time that Ubuntu was. But, it seems to be very heavy and slow on this laptop, though certainly functional. It does have better hardware support (slightly) than Fedora 8. I have both Gnome and KDE4 installed. KDE4 is STILL very buggy (4.0.5) and I get the occassional freeze/lock-up which requires an ALT/BLSPCE to get out of it.

I like the ease of use and look, but in the end it just seems to heavy and slow, so Slackware 12.1 was my final choice as the main OS.

I would certainly recommend Fedora 9 to a noob as it is very easy to use and setup.

Bob

I still find FC7 better than FC8 and 9.
Tried FC9 on a fresh system but had problems with the ethernet card. My onboard Broadcom on Dell Optiplex was recognized but PCI did not. I think there is no reason why it should not have been as CentOS5 and RHEL5 both take it well.
Also FC9 had some problems with rebooting the system. Whenever I tried to reboot the machine, it hanged at some point and did not come up well.
Overall it is ok.
I still like FC7 better than 8 and 9 for sure.

No FC since FC6 btw- it's now just fedora 9 or f9.

That said, I always look forward to the latest release, and I too started with the beta. Only issue I've got is it won't shutdown cleanly, but other than that it's better than f8 across the board as far as I'm concerned. Hopefully the firefox 3 issues go away later this week after the official release

Yeah sorry for that. I forgot it completely. And thanks for the reminder.

I was having issues with repositories with F8 due to installing MythTV, and I was getting tired of things having trouble updating.

I've got everything working to my satisfaction in F9. I'm happy I made the switch.

It's...Fedora. The same as 8, but with newer software - and that's about it. Not the best outlooks in the universe, but not the worst either..if you're used to the RedHat way of doing things, you're home, otherwise it's a 50-50 against Monday luck.

The software is more or less the same as in every other distribution that updates reposities once in a while, it works with most hardware that is not branded as Windows-only (and even some that is, silly..) and all in all doesn't bring much shiny in for a visit Luckily nothing bad either. In short, it's just a new number.

I like that there is a large, almost complete, collection of development tools. Even though there is no Netbeans pre-installed, I didn't have to go through a painful Java upgrade to install Netbeans.
I've had no problems with any hardware, that I know of, except all of the multimedia applications that I've tried so far have problems with sound. This has been a common problem, as evidenced by the number of people posting questions about it. I don't know if this is a hardware support issue, or somehwere else in the chain.
KDE 4 is still too immature for release, in my opinion. A lot is missing or buggy, compared to KDE 3.5. In the perfect world, I would be able to roll back to KDE 3.5, which might be possible, but I wouldn't know where to start.
The default SELiunx setting is for full enforcement, and I don't remember seeing any way to turn that off during installation. It then throws up a whole pile of complaints on the first boot, when it wants to upgrade stuff and complete the installation.
One of my biggest dislikes about Fedora in general has been with the installer:
- The SELinux issue, noted above.
- No ability to simple select 'Install every last possible package'. It takes a lot of clicks to do this, and then, you have to fix a few compatibility/dependency issues to complete the installation.
- Adding users, you are stuck with the default user ID of 500, and no way to add groups or assign default groups for users.
- no way to chose the default desktop; Gnome gets used by default. I wonder how many people never even see KDE because of this?
--- rod.

occasionally F9 freezes and I have to either:

(1) eject a DVD/CD

or

(2) unplug a flash memory stick

AFTER doing a Ctrl-Alt-Delete

I believe I'd stay away from F9!

F9 freezes when mouse passage over an icon in the task bar causes a tooltip to popup.!

Again unplugging the flash drive un-freezes the desktop!

Sometimes simply hitting the Ctrl-Alt keys will unfreeze!

KDE panel no longer has hide feature.

I am now using 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 and KDE 4.0.5

I believe the kernel authors will solve the problems!

My first time for kernel freeze in Linux! Everything is locked!

My nvidia problems all cleared up and I do regular yum updates!

To get NTFS or the Flash memory stick to show up in all browse dialogs,

I have to click on each one under Dolphin file manager, then return to the browse!

Once upon a time the icons for each would show up at the upper left of the desktop!

If one uses Gnome, these icons do appear!

Under KDE, the little nest of icons to the right of the 4 little desktop screens is a mess!