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I was user of nvidia video card and I was happy to use it in F7 and F8 but unfortunately I replaced that card with a newer one. That time the card was ATI. Of course I did not check if that card is supported in Fedora 9 (I have to blame myself) and just took it. Recently I noticed the news about that how "open" ATI would be in the future. And now I experience their "openness" with my computer. After the fresh install of my Fedora I downloaded the RPM file for the Livna repository with the intention to install the video drivers for the new video card. And you can only imagine what was my reaction to see no drivers in the repository. There were only some testing and development packages and I took the risk to install them. The result was - hanging system with and without reason.

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This is actually why most of my systems are no longer using Fedora. The Fedora Project chose to ship a pre-release version of X.org, which the hardware vendors aren't willing to write drivers for until it is declared stable.

I'm surprised that anyone is surprised by this. The whole reason for Fedora's existence is to provide a test bed for RHEL. This is par for the course for Fedora.