Fedora 9 Sulphur Beta Smells a Little
So, I took a leap and decided to install Fedora 9 yesterday hoping to reap the benefits of Gnome 2.22 and the latest and greatest in general. What I found though is a mess of bugs. I understand that this is only a release for the early adopters, but I figured it would be a little more polished than this. And by “this” I mean that upon install on my laptop, the:
backlight was off(fixed after updates).multimedia keys don’t function(fixed after updates).- webcam doesn’t work with cheese.
- package manager freaked out on sight of 300+ updates on fresh install and hung itself (after a restart, things were okay again).
- package manager wouldn’t uninstall anything.
- package manager spits out an error message when clicking on any category.
- desktop effects worked at first, but then were destroyed by the updates.
- backup/restore feature in evolution is worthless (maybe not Fedora’s fault).
- flash player doesn’t really play any flash.
- “restore from trash” feature that’s supposed to be included in Gnome 2.22 isn’t anywhere to be found.
It’s not an exhaustive list of the little things I noticed, but I just wasn’t expecting to run into any hurdles for some reason (even though it’s beta software). I guess I should have known better.
But, it’s not all bad. I’m more of a “half-full” kinda guy and so I would like to go over the things that give me a reason to keep it on my desktop:
- Clock and Weather have been merged together [Gnome].
- PackageKit is extremely simple. I click “apply updates” and I only see that it’s doing it’s thing. I can choose to go in and see what it’s going to install as well (for those users who are curious).
- Finally, a more detailed description of what’s happening during file transfers [Gnome].
- Avant Window Navigator and it’s extras are easy to install through Add/Remove Programs.
- Mouse preferences are extensive (but no simple “disable click on tap” function yet for us laptop users).
- As always, the default theme for Fedora is nice.
There are a lot more features than that, but those are some highlights that I wanted to share. I hope you enjoyed the mini-review!
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