Just out of curiosity, when you saved /home, and created the same user in the new installation. Did the new user get the same UID by chance, or by design :) <div class="gmail_quote">2008/4/22 Peter Gordon <<a href="mailto:peter@thecodergeek.com">peter@thecodergeek.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I downloaded and installed the Fedora 9 ("Sulphur") Preview release over the weekend, replacing my current F-8 installation. The following is a report of my experiences with it, so far. My hardware is Smolt UUID 6059d15d-2980-42a7-8027-525b1ec25833 [1]. Anaconda: Everything went fabulously. I easily saved my /home partition and re-sized some others (all ext3) before installing. The install actually seemed to take significantly less time than the same Fedora 8 configuration (same box); but I don't know how much of that is subjective and how much is actually quicker. =) (Please note, though, that I do not use LVM, nor did I try encrypted partitions. I don't have a need for either of those options.) X/RHGB: Beautiful. The new theme work is brilliant. I did not notice any flicker when starting X initially. It recognized my G965 onboard and properly used the intel driver. 3-D and XVideo acceleration work as expected. Firstboot: No errors or faults. Since I kept my /home partition from the F8 installation, I rather like how it warned me about the user directory already existing when I re-created the 'pgordon' user for myself. (Was that in previous releases?) Input: Setting up the caps-lock as a compose key for diacritics (Spanish) was simple as it has always been though GNOME's keyboard preferences capplet. Getting Japanese input with SCIM was a bit more of a hassle though. For some reason, even though installed just about everything I could find SCIM-/Anthy-related, im-chooser still errored with a "No input methods found" message when I tried to select it. However, I updated everything to current rawhide using PackageKit and rebooted; and SCIM+Anthy once again works beautifully and as expected (Romaji method). My Wacom BambooFun tablet also worked beautifully with no effort on my part, whereas I had to manually compile and use the linuxwacom stuff in F8. (On a side note, I had stability issues with SCIM+Epiphany in F8; but try as I may, I have yet to be able to produce the same issues on my Sulphur install.) PackageKit/PolicyKit: WONDERFUL. I love the work you developers are doing with these things. The only regression I saw from Pirut/Yumex is that there was no way to select and install multiple packages at once. However, I found after some experimenting that I was able to easily select one package, click Install, then select others and click Install again, and they would be queued as sequential transactions. Spiffy. NetworkManager: Another awesome feature. I had been using this in F8, but with Sulphur, I found it much simpler to edit my DNS settings through its GUI connection editor [2], instead of having to hardcode a bunch of IP addresses in /etc/sysconfig files. My home Wi-Fi (802.11b) works beautifully, and NetworkManager takes care of the nasty configuration stuffs for me. \o/ SELinux: Happily does its job and stays out of my way, as it should. I've noticed only that I have yet to notice anything from it, which is a very good sign. =) Swfdec: YouTube works beautifully "out of the box" after installing the various swfdec packages through Anaconda. Yay! Sulphur is looking AWESOME so far; but I will be sure to file any bugs should they arise in my using it. =] [1] <a href="http://www.smolts.org/client/show_all/pub_6059d15d-2980-42a7-8027-525b1ec25833" target="_blank">http://www.smolts.org/client/show_all/pub_6059d15d-2980-42a7-8027-525b1ec25833</a> [2] My ISP's DNS is horrendously slow, so I have all of our computers at home set to use OpenDNS's namservers. Much nicer... -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </blockquote></div>