Fedora Core 5 anyone?

[dnar]

Has anyone else tried FC5 yet?

I loaded it onto my laptop that was running FC4 and XP Pro on the weekend, installing over FC4 (not update) and kept my existing /home partition and shared FAT32 partition. Installed using the DVD ISO without a hitch, in less than 30 minutes all up. My XP install stil works too! Smooth and slick, really good IMHO!

BTW, I discovered the hard way, that not all clients can download images larger than 2GB via HTTP protocol! Mozilla, Forefox and Downloader for X all failed. I had to grab it from the Fedora ftp server instead!

[dnar]

I was all prepared to install FC5 on my main workstation yesterday, I thought bugger this, lets try the "update" method. An hour later all was good. A word of advise if your updating a previous version of Fedora, remove all kernel-devel packages (if you installed any) prior to upgrading, like so:
yum remove kernel-devel*FC4
Otherwise you'll have an amusing time with your first "yum update" having both FC4 and FC5 kernels!
I'd also do the following once FC5 is up and before doing yoru fist update:
yum remove kernel*FC4

[dnar]

Oh BTW, Firefox 1.5.0.2 rocks! As does Gnome 2.14.1! Fast!

[dnar]

A few screenies for you from my lappie, checkout the power management stuff, yes Suspend to Disk and Hibernate to RAM work! At last!

Tinkering with sip as well, anyone here have a voip account?

http://dnaresearch.com.au/images/linux/laptop_fc5_powerman1.png

http://dnaresearch.com.au/images/linux/laptop_fc5_powerman2.png

http://dnaresearch.com.au/images/linux/laptop_fc5_wifi.png

http://dnaresearch.com.au/images/linux/laptop_fc5_ekiga.png

[X-Calibur]

I guess I'm due for an update then...